If you are going to restore 24 million hectares of degraded land, a lot of things need to go right. Sub-Saharan countries Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana and Kenya plan to have that much land on track to being restored by 2030. While several components of the plan are in place, many others are not. Perhaps the most pressing is how to source and plant enough material from native tree species—seeds, seedlings and other material like cuttings.
The countries' commitments are commendable. As part of the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative , the four nations represent almost a quarter of AFR100's goal. They boast high biodiversity in a region where 60% of the population relies on forests for food, timber and other essential ecosystem services. But that demand has helped drive sub-Saharan Africa's 10.
"The four countries are making substantial progress toward their reforestation goals but risk falling short of their targets at present," said Chris Kettle, the principal investigator for this study and researcher for the CGIAR Initiative on Nature-Positive Solutions."This can be fixed, however. Our results showed that demand forThis isn't for a shortage of intact forests from which to source planting material.
But these trees generally do little to support local flora and fauna, have short-lived carbon storage, and often place a high demand on water resources. They alsoChanging business-as-usual practices will be essential to increasing the chances of success in forest landscape restoration projects. But to give native tree diversity a bigger share of the restoration market, several gaps need to be filled.
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