Access to funding and technical assistance for forest and smallholder farm producers and enterprises to accelerate restoration-based value added innovation, with focus on Africa
The African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100) is a partnership between 34 African countries committed to restoring at least 100 million hectares of degraded land by 2030. To date, the participating countries have committed a total of 129.5 million hectares for restoration. The four-year programme described here will support the ambition of AFR100.
The programme, which is funded by the Government of Germany and has a budget of EUR 40 million, will help accelerate restoration and value-added innovation by providing smallholder forest and farm producer organizations with direct financial and technical assistance. It will help create restoration-based businesses and mobilize investment to further encourage restoration. The programme is a multipartner effort in collaboration with AFR100, led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
