Africa’s once-vibrant landscapes are some of the most threatened on the planet. About 20% of the continent’s land is degraded. Most farms are underproductive due to years of overgrazing, monocropping and other harmful practices, producing a fraction of the food they once did. More than 270 million African people face chronic hunger — one-fifth of the population.
WRI’s Restore Local project aims to change that by accelerating the AFR100 movement, an initiative to bring 100 million hectares of Africa’s degraded lands under restoration by 2030.
