Last week, at the Global Landscapes Forum held in Kenya, conservation experts called for the wider integration of social protection programming with biodiversity goals.
Organized by the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry, or CIFOR-ICRAF, the event was themed “Greening the African Horizon,” and focused on how Africa can navigate the climate crisis.
One of the projects showcased in the forum was Trees on Farm for Biodiversity, a German government-funded program implemented by CIFOR-ICRAF. The seven-year program, which just ended, was implemented in Uganda and Rwanda among other countries, and sought to build awareness among governments of the potential of trees on farms for meeting both development objectives and biodiversity commitments.
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Anthony Langat
Anthony Langat is a Kenya-based Devex Contributing Reporter whose work centers on environment, climate change, health, and security. He was part of an International Consortium of Investigative Journalism’s multi-award winning 2015 investigation which unearthed the World Bank’s complacence in the evictions of indigenous people across the world. He has five years’ experience in development and investigative reporting and has been published by Al Jazeera, Mongabay, Us News & World Report, Equal Times, News Deeply, Thomson Reuters Foundation, and Devex among others.
