Land Restoration

There is an emerging consensus that landscape restoration is one of the cost-effective ways to regenerate nature, while providing sustainable livelihoods for people and staying within 1.5 degrees C of global warming.

Recognizing this opportunity, the Ugandan government has made commitments to the Bonn Challenge, Paris Climate Agreement, Aichi Biodiversity Targets, and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs. In 2019, the UN General Assembly declared 2021–2030 the "Decade on Ecosystem Restoration", with the goal of creating job opportunities, boosting food security, and fighting climate change (UNEP2019).Land restoration is a critical component to ensure food security. The statistics relating to the involvement of women, not only in food production but also in land restoration efforts, highlight the need to ensure their meaningful inclusion from the outset to ensure the success of land restoration efforts. Approximately 80 percent of the food in Uganda is generated by small-scale farming, with women accounting for an average of 43 percent of agricultural labour. In some places, women represent the majority of agricultural workers. For example, over 50% of employed women work in agriculture and more than half of farmers are women.