Restoration of degraded landscapes in Africa: Lessons for the future
- Provide evidence to inform restoration policy and practice and achieve the vision of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.
- Synthesize factors affecting the success or failure of restoration initiatives, leading to recommendations for the design of new restoration initiatives.
- Share lessons learned in terms of outcomes in the restoration impact pathway: 1) policies catalyzing change; 2) investments supporting change; 3) awareness of the need for change; 4) adoption of solutions; and 5) synergies and tradeoffs with other development outcomes.
- Discuss the potential of existing scientific evidence, data, metrics, tools, methods and partnerships that CGIAR has generated as leveraging points for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.

Birhanu Zemadim Birhanu
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

Marlène Elias
Alliance and Gender Research Coordinator for the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry, Biodiversity-CIAT