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Eritrea

Peer-reviewed publication
Journal Articles & Books
December, 2013
Eastern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Eritrea
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
climate change
environment
water management
agriculture
poverty
rural development
agricultural and rural legislation
farmers
land degradation
food security
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Protocol for characterizing community-based rangeland management cases

Manuals & Guidelines
April, 2018
Algeria, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Mauritania, Mali, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Cameroon, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Senegal, Chad, Niger, Sudan, Africa, Eastern Africa
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
Land & Food Security
food security
rangelands
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Improving food security and nutrition in Africa

Policy Papers & Briefs
March, 2012
Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Sudan, South Sudan, Tunisia, Western Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa
Land & Food Security
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
food security
rangelands
water management
Few regions present bigger development challenges than the African drylands – home to nearly 300 million people, and the vast majority of Africa’s poor. Food security and rural welfare in these areas are limited by a range of factors, biophysical, socio-economic and policy-related. And many of the biggest challenges – poverty, drought, land degradation, food insecurity – will be exacerbated by climate change.
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Africa and ICARDA

Reports & Research
December, 2009
Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Pakistan, Sudan, Tunisia, Turkey, Western Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa, Southern Asia, Western Asia
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
capacity development
climate change
food security
land management
water management
ICARDA has long-standing outreach programs in North Africa, the Nile Valley, and the Red Sea region (Fig 2). In its current strategic plan, the Center will extend its work to the drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa.
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New Times, New Opportunities: Grasping the future with the world's youngest population in the Sahel.

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2019
Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Algeria, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, Senegal, South Sudan, Chad, Africa
Forest Landscape Restoration
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
food security
gender equity in access to land
land restoration
migration
poverty
sustainable development
The support plan for the Sahel is a regional approach to collectively address the root causes of disruptions such as poverty, migration and youth unemployment, climate change, insecurity, governance and institutional issues in the region. In this report an overview of the current situation for each of the priority areas of the UN Support Plan is presented to demonstrate that the full implementation of the plan could utilize an existing momentum of development not seen in decades in the Sahel.
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Regreening the Sahel: A quiet agroecological evolution

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2020
Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Algeria, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, Senegal, South Sudan, Chad
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agroforestry systems
community forestry
desertification
food security
forestry
land restoration
‘Over the past three decades hundreds of thousands of farmers in Burkina Faso and Niger, on the fringes of the Sahara Desert, have transformed large swathes of the region’s arid landscape into productive agricultural land, improving food security for about three million people. Once-denuded landscapes are now home to abundant trees, crops, and livestock.'
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Community Approaches to Sustainable Land Management and Agroecology Practices

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2018
Eritrea, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, South Africa, Gambia, Nigeria, Barbados, Cuba, China, Mongolia, Armenia
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land & Food Security
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
food security
climate change
land degradation
agricultural land management
agriculture
forest management plans
sustainable land management
biodiversity
As of 2017, SGP has awarded over 3,800 small grants to land degradation projects in over 120 countries, many of which are in regions with extreme levels of poverty and food insecurity across Africa and Latin America. Africa, in particular, is experiencing the highest population growth of the developing world, while being exposed and vulnerable to the rising impact from climate change.