Analysis - Many African governments have set ambitious goals to plant trees as a way to combat climate change, restore degraded landscapes and improve livelihoods. The Kenyan government has pledged to ...

After the lifting of a six-year moratorium on logging in public forests, trucks ferrying logs are seen on highways in ...

Mandera residents water tree seedlings in a nursery. [Courtesy] Kenya has a very ambitious goal. To restore 10.6 million hectares of degraded land by planting 15 billion trees by the year 2032.

The event is part of a bigger goal to plant 15 billion trees in 10 years. Kenya's President William Ruto took part in Makueni, in the east of the country, with ministers leading the process elsewhere.

Including trees in smallholder farming systems is particularly important, given the central role of farming in Kenya's Economy and small farms' vulnerability to climate change. One promising ...