The Regreening Africa Phase II project has been launched in Kukpalgu, a farming community in the Mion District of the Northern Region.
This project seeks to employ the Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) approach to restore degraded lands and forests in these catchment areas.
It also seeks to improve food security and enhance climate resilience across the breadth and length of the Northern Region.
The four-year initiative is being implemented by World Vision Ghana, in partnership with the Catholic Relief Services, and funded by the European Union (EU).
It was jointly launched by Northern Regional Minister, Mr. Ali Adolf John Mburudiba, and the EU Ambassador to Ghana, Mr. Rune Skinnebach.
Speaking at the launch, the regional minister commended the EU for their continued support to the good people of this country and the Northern Region at large.
He said the success of the Phase I project restored approximately 53,800 hectares of degraded land and increased the adoption of regreening practices from 7 per cent to 70 per cent in the Northern and Upper East Regions.
The minister stated that the Regreening Africa Programme was a large-scale initiative to reverse land degradation, improve food security, and enhance climate resilience across eight sub-Saharan African countries, including Ghana.
Mr. Mburudiba added that Phase II of the project would span from 2025–2029 and aimed to engage an additional 200,000 households and intensify efforts to link land restoration with economic development and supportive policies in the region.
This, according to him, the project would focus on scaling up successful approaches from Phase I, including Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) and agroforestry.
The minister also applauded the EU’s support for developmental projects in the region and assured the ambassador of their unwavering support and commitment to strengthening their relationship across all areas of development.
He emphasised the need for the EU to create employment opportunities for the youth in the region to drive development.
Mr. Skinnebach, for his part, commended the government for its efforts to promote sustainable development in the country and expressed the readiness of the EU to support the Regreening Africa project across northern Ghana to help communities adapt to the invasive climate change impacts in the area.
He appealed to the indigenes to cultivate the habit of planting more trees in their degraded lands to save the environment.
The ambassador again assured the minister and the people of the region that they would continue to work on health, agriculture, education, peace, food security, water, and other developmental challenges in the region.
FROM YAHAYA NUHU NADAA, MION
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