Reversing Land Degradation in Africa through Scaling-up Evergreen Agriculture

About

Land and soil degradation are the major challenges for sustainable development. The ELD Initiative, through economic evaluation, provides reliable and scientifically robust information on the economic implications of the loss of terrestrial ecosystem services and economic benefits of relevant investments. Transfer of this knowledge into the countries is thus highly relevant and important in order to enhance the countries’ efforts to address land degradation issues.

Impact

Goals

To promote further roll-out of SLM/EVA approaches and halt land degradation in the target countries, through accurate cost-benefit studies to be undertaken together with the national institutions and whose results shall be widely communicated to stakeholders and decision-makers of all sectors. Furthermore, the project aims to assess ecosystem services values and draw policy scenarios.

Objectives

To promote further SLM within the agendas. Furthermore, stakeholders claim the need for improved infrastructure, tools and methods to monitor land degradation dynamics.

Impact pathways

The benefits from reversing land degradation in Africa through scaling-up evergreen agriculture are at environmental and livelihood level. Land, water and forest degradation (including deforestation) needs to be minimized. The capacity development activities are fundamental for enhancing the policy making process, which will result in a concrete improvement of the natural resources systems and ecosystems services in eight African countries.