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Rehabilitation of degraded lands
in Sub-Saharan Africa
Downloadable documents
FORNESSA & IUFRO-SPDC synthesis report: "Rehabilitation of Degraded Lands in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons Learned from Selected Case Studies" (1.7 Mb). The report can also be downloaded in sections.
Hyytiälä workshop
Synthesis
of workshop recommendations (RTF
50 kb, PDF 40 kb)
Final Proceedings
- Foreword by Mr Jörn Laxén, TACCDA Project Manager and VITRI Project Director (Word 28 kb, PDF 10 kb)
Introduction to the workshops
Drylands and global change
- Ecological degradation and global change, Ben Chikamai, KEFRI (Word 62 kb, PDF 31 kb)
- Adaptation of dryland vegetation to climate, Mohamed ElFadl, VITRI (Word 59 kb, PDF 32 kb)
- Social aspects of land use decisions, Alice Kaudia, KEFRI (Word 152 kb, PDF 198 kb)
- Economic aspects of local land use decisions, ElNour ElSiddig, University of Khartoum (Word 93 kb, PDF 96 kb)
Facilitating land use change on drylands
- Whose responsibility dryland management?, Demel Teketay, EARO, Ethiopia (Word 76 kb, PDF 49 kb)
- Practical aspects of drylands management and utilization, Bashir Jama, ICRAF (Word 63 kb, PDF 59 kb)
- Implications of economic changes for dryland management at national and
international level, Fred Owino, FORIN Ltd. (Word 41 kb, PDF 16 kb)
International policy implications on dryland use
- Implications of international agreements for dryland management - CBD, FCCC, CCD (CITES), Frederick Owino, FORIN Ltd. (Word 42 kb, PDF 18 kb)
- Bridging research and policy, Peter Wood, Wood Associates (Word 25 kb, PDF 10 kb)
Climate change and dry land forests
- Emissions of climate change forcing gases from tropical soils, Jan Dick and Ute Skiba, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Scotland, UK (Word 88 kb, PDF 46 kb)
- Climate change perspectives in Sub-Saharan Africa, Frank Berninger, VITRI (Word 290 kb, PDF 29 kb)
- Synthesis of possible gaps in research, development and policy priorities, Olavi Luukkanen (Word 21 kb, PDF 14 kb)
Conclusions from the Dryland Working Groups
Papers of the Sub-Humid and Humid Regions Day
- R. Bellefontaine et al., Plea for the use of suckering and layering in dry tropical and Mediterranean zones. During certain periods, on some sites, and with certain species, (Word 109 kb, PDF 98 kb)
- R. Bellefontaine et al., Plaidoyer pour le drageonnage et le marcottage en zone tropicale sèche et méditerranéenne : à certains moments de l'année, dans certains sites, et avec certaines espèces, (Word 108 kb, PDF 80 kb)
- A. Yapi, Recommendations for Forest Research, Policy Formulation and Institutional and Legislative Reforms, (RTF 52 kb, PDF 27 kb)
Presentations
- A. Yapi, GFIS Africa
welcoming address, (RTF
24 kb, PDF 18 kb)
- B. Chikamai,
Ecological Degradation
and Global Change: The Case of Drylands, (PPT
68 kb, PDF 134 kb)
- M. A. Elfadl, Adaptation
of dryland vegetation to climate, (PPT 2.3
Mb!!!, PDF 1.2 Mb)
- A. A. Kaudia and E.
Obonyo, Sociological Aspects Of Land Use Decisions, (PPT
876 kb, PDF 574 kb)
- D. Teketay, Whose responsibility
is dryland forest management?, (PPT 134 kb,
PDF 322 kb)
- Definitions of degraded
forests, (RTF
15 kb, PDF 13 kb)
- FAO Expert Meeting on
Definitions, (RTF 22
kb, PDF 20 kb)
- R. Bellefontaine and
A. Molina, Natural layering and root suckering, presentation (Large file size,
may take a long time to download! PPT
11.6 Mb, PDF 8.4 Mb)
- R. Bellefontaine, short
lecture after slides presentation, (Word
29 kb, PDF 14 kb)
- A. Yapi, Recommendations
for Forest Research, Policy Formulation and Institutional and Legislative
Reforms, (RTF
47 kb, PDF 22 kb)
- P. Wood, Drylands: Bridging
research and policy, (Word 20 kb, PDF
14 kb)
- O. Luukkanen, Synthesis
of research, development and policy priorities: Possible gaps, (Word
20 kb, PDF 14 kb)
E-Discussion
Background
papers to the e-discussion
- Rehabilitation of degraded
lands in drylands of Africa, by B.N. Chikamai and B.N. Kigomo, Kenya
Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI),
- Synthesis only:
(Word 300 kb, PDF
121 kb)
- Case study 1:
Community Resources Management by the Elangata Wuas Ecosystem Management
Programme, Kajiado District, Kenya
(Word 37 kb, PDF
38 kb)
- Case study 2:
Restoring the Vegetation and Improving the Livelihood of the Kamba and Maasai
People in Kenya
(Word 33 kb, PDF
34 kb)
- Case study 3:
Participatory Extension Strategies for Promoting Agroforestry in the Drylands
of West Pokot District, Kenya
(Word 23 kb, PDF
18 kb)
- Gaps in Knowledge
and Recommendations for Policy, Management and Research
(Word
39 kb, PDF 42 kb)
- Rehabilitation of degraded lands in humid zones of Africa, by Dominic Blay, Forestry Research Institute of Ghana, (Word 201 kb, PDF 162 kb)
- Réhabilitation des Terres Humides Dégradées en Afrique Subsaharienne: Une Synthèse, Par Dominic Blay, Institut de Recherche Forestière du Ghana (FORIG), (Word 22 kb, PDF 8 kb)
- Rehabilitation of Degraded Sub-humid Lands in Sub-Saharan Africa, S.A.O. Chamshama and J.B. Nduwayezu, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania
- Complete document: (Word 337 kb, PDF 581 kb)
- Case study 1: Ngitiri: a successful traditional method of land rehabilitation in Shinyanga,Tanzania
(Word 42 kb, PDF 27 kb)
- Case study 2: Successful community-based management of two miombo forests (Duru-Haitemba and Mgori) in northern Tanzania
(Word 26 kb, PDF 13 kb)
- Case study 3: Colonial rulers and HADO's failures to rehabilitate degraded lands in Kondoa
(Word 23 kb, PDF 18 kb)
- Réhabilitation des Terres Sub-Humides Dégradées en Afrique Subsaharienne: Une Synthèse, S.A.O. Chamshama et J.B. Nduwayezu, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania, (Word 21 kb, PDF 8 kb)
Review
of background papers / Analyse de documents
A review of these background
papers (Word 121 kb,
PDF 223 kb) can be downloaded as well.
Analyse de documents
sur la rehabilitation des terres degradees en Afrique Sub-Saharienne, Edouard
G. Bonkoungou (Word 60 kb,
PDF 51 kb)
Dryland
rehabilitation: Discussion
papers for the e-discussion
- theme I: The
current status of dry lands
- Discussion paper
on the Sub-theme "Current Status of Drylands in Sub-Saharan Africa;
Ecological Aspects." by Ben Chikamai, (Word
25 kb, PDF 11 kb)
- Discussion paper
on the Sub-theme Economic
aspects by Elnour Abdalla Elsiddig, (Word
27 kb, PDF 12 kb)
- Climate change and
its impacts on African drylands by Frank Berning, (Word
25 kb, PDF 12 kb)
- Trees, Agroforestry and Climate Change in Dryland Africa: Sociological Perspectives by Alice Kaudia, (Word 21kb, PDF 12 kb)
- theme II:
Factors in ecological degradation of drylands
- Causes of dryland
forest degradation by Demel Teketay, (Word
32 kb, PDF 24 kb)
- Causes/drivers of
degradation of land and forests dry lands of sub-Saharan Africa by
Bashir Jama, (Word 24 kb,
PDF 10 kb)
- theme III:
National and International Policy aspects
- Impacts of dryland
forest degradation on livelihoods, ElNour ElSiddig, University of Khartoum,
(Word 23 kb, PDF
10 kb)
- Review of national
policies on drylands in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), Prof. Frederick Owino,
(Word 28 kb, PDF
8 kb)
- Progress in supportive
international policy, agreements and practice, Prof. Frederick Owino,
(Word 26 kb, PDF
9 kb)
- theme IV: Climate
change and dry land forests
- Climate change,
its impacts and carbon sequestration by Frank Berninger, (Word
24 kb, pdf 15 kb)
- Theme V: Research,
Development and Policy priorities
by Peter Wood, (Word 61 kb, pdf
25 kb)
Dryland
rehabilitation: other background documents
-
Success stories in Africa ’s drylands: supporting advocates and answering skeptics A paper commissioned by the Global Mechanism of the Convention to Combat Desertification,
March 18, 2003, Chris Reij,
David Steeds,
(Word 224 kb, pdf 128 kb)
- Workshop
proceedings of VITRI:
- VITRI Inauguration
Workshop: Tropical Dryland Rehabilitation 11-14 June 2002, University
of Helsinki, Hyytiälä Forestry Field Station
- Management of trees
for farmland rehabilitation and development, Sudan, 27 Oct. - 7 Nov. 2000
- Household
Livelihoods in Semi-Arid Regions: Options and Constraints; B.M. Campbell,
S. Jeffrey, W. Kozanayi, M. Luckert, M. Mutamba and C. Zindi (PDF 1.8 Mb)
- Réduction de
l'érosion par l'exploitation de l'aptitude à drageonner de certains
ligneux des zones tropicales sèches (avec une liste de plus de cent
espèces drageonnantes) by Ronald Bellefontaine, Eric-André
Nicolini, Sandrine Petit, (Word
122 kb, PDF 60 kb)
- Revégétalisation,
une quatrième voie : la propagation végétative naturelle
by Ronald Bellefontaine et al., (Word
54 kb, PDF 37 kb)
- Le drageonnage des arbres
hors forêt : un moyen pour revégétaliser partiellement
les zones arides et semi-arides sahéliennes ? by R. Bellefontaine,
O. Monteuuis, (Word 246 kb,
PDF 99 kb)
- Reboiser au moindre
coût les zones semi-arides par marcottage naturel by Karim Saley
, Bationo Babou-André , Bellefontaine Ronald , Ichaou Aboubacar,
(Word 81 kb, PDF
46 kb)
- Fighting Desertification
by Integrated Utilisation of the Jatropha Plant, by Reinhard K. Henning,
1-page summary (PDF 133 kb), 5-
page paper (PDF 23 kb)
- Links
and publications on trees outside forests by Ronald Bellefontaine
- Management of natural
forest of dry tropical zones, by Bellefontaine R., Gaston A., Petrucci Y.,
Kaboré C., Ouedraogo K., Frieds J., Näslund B.A., Gerber W., Barreto
Campelo F.C., Homji M., FAO Conservation Guide 32, 2000, 318 p. Available
online in english
and french.
- Extracts of: Support
for the french egyptian project designed to create artificial forests in desert
zones near edfu, qena and luxor irrigated by waste water from theses cities,
Mission to Egypt, April 22-30, 1998, Ronald Bellefontaine, (Word
92 kb, PDF 80 kb)
Drylands
rehabilitation: case studies
- Gum and resin resources
and their economic contributions in Liban, Southeast Ethiopia, Mulugeta Lemenih,
(Word 35 kb, PDF
24 kb)
Humid
and sub-humid land ecosystems:
Discussion
papers for the e-discussion
- section I: Extent,
Causes and Consequences of Land Degradation
- Direct and indirect
causes (human, natural, economic, others) by Atse M. Yapi, IUFRO-SPDC,
Accra, Ghana (Word 23 kb,
PDF 10 kb)
- Consequences (economic,
social, environmental, political, and others) by Atse M. Yapi, IUFRO-SPDC,
Accra, Ghana (Word 24
kb, PDF 11 kb)
- section II: Humid
and sub-Humid Lands Rehabilitation Efforts and Techniques and Factors for
Success/Failure
- Case studies on rehabilitation
efforts and techniques for the rehabilitation of degraded humid and sub-humid
lands in Africa (effort defined in % of total degraded land area by Dominic
Blay, (Word
79 kb, pdf 17 kb)
- 'Drivers' of successful
and unsuccessful rehabilitation of degraded humid and sub-humid lands in
Africa (Criteria for success and failure are to be indicated as well) by
Dominic Blay,
(Word 79 kb, pdf
15 kb)
- section III: Major
Constraints; and Research, Development and Policy Recommendations