Climate change is compounding the impacts of land degradation on human development in Kenya and the eastern Africa region. To address this situation, communities need regreening projects that anticipate future climate scenarios, adapt over time and are supported by an enabling policy and development environment.
The Regreening for the future project aims to learn how this can be done, by integrating adaptation pathways within a community-led regreening model to enhance the capacity of communities in Kenya and the eastern Africa region to continuously adapt to climate change long into the future.
To deliver such climate-ready regreening projects, there are research gaps to address such as ways to improve the design of regreening models under climate change, how to develop adaptation pathways with different stakeholders integrating all types of knowledge and information, and how to monitor, evaluate and learn from these processes. This research project aims to address these gaps and to do so in tangible and grounded ways, embedding action research directly in existing development and regreening projects.
The project, which is funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, is being undertaken with World Vision Australia, World Vision Kenya, Kenya Forestry Research Institute, the University of Nairobi, the Centre for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry and United Nations University.
