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Tag: drylands

How the world’s driest region is adapting to the climate crisis

The state of the climate in the Middle East and North Africa ahead of COP28
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Hot date: Will this tough desert fruit win the race with climate change?

In one of the world’s most marginal agricultural landscapes, innovation is king
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8 of our favorite GLF speakers

Hear from some of our most inspiring thought leaders
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Visions from our Restoration Stewards for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

Hear from six youth environmentalists on the most important decade for the planet
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A woman carries food back home in Burkina Faso. Ollivier Girard, CIFOR

“Africa is blessed with drylands.”

Catch up on some memorable quotes from GLF's digital conference on restoring Africa's drylands
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A woman transports water in Burkina Faso. Ollivier Girard, CIFOR

The numbers behind GLF Africa: Restoring Africa’s Drylands

Check out some standout figures coming from the GLF's new digital conference on restoring Africa's drylands
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A family watches over their sheep at sunset in the Somali region of Ethiopia. USAID Ethiopia

“Mending a crack in the sky”: communities, women, youth leading restoration of Africa’s drylands

Day 2 wrap-up of the Global Landscapes Forum: Restoring Africa’s Drylands
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A 26-year-old Burkinabe carries a basket of cotton harvested from her dryland farm. Ollivier Girard, CIFOR

Restoring African drylands from within – without myths

Day 1 wrap-up of the Global Landscapes Forum: Restoring Africa’s Drylands
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Mr. Augustino, a Tanzanian farmer who restored his degraded landscape using FMNR techniques. Courtesy of the LEAD Foundation

In African drylands, farmers are coaxing former forests back into life

How “farmer-managed natural regeneration” is taking hold on the African continent and beyond
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A baobab tree grows in the Malian drylands. Martha de Jong-Lantink, Flickr

What the documentation of 1.8 billion trees in West Africa means for climate change adaptation

In dryland and desert regions, AI has helped spot abundant tree growth that can support local lives and carbon stocks
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The semi-arid region of Bardenas Reales, Spain. bernardhermant, Unsplash

Everything you need to know about drylands

The ubiquitous, un-trumpeted ecosystems that are critical to feeding the world
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How can we restore the Aral Sea basin?

GLF Live with Vadim Sokolov and Kristina Toderich
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The miombo woodlands in northern Zambia. Jeff Walker, CIFOR

Miombo woodlands: the vast southern African dryland forests hiding in plain sight

A belt of expensive timber and African wildlife struggling to survive population growth
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A Fulani boy in Niger herds his family's animals. Stevie Mann, ILRI

An awakening for the world’s rangelands

Pastoralists and their ancestral lands are showing their value for the global future
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A 2011 satellite photo of the divide between the Sahara and the Sahel and southern forests of Africa. NASA

As the Sahel dries, the Sahara advances

Here stands the Great Green Wall: Part 1
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