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Addressing interlinked, mutually reinforcing crises
Climate change, land degradation, and biodiversity loss are major planetary crises that threaten ecosystems and human wellbeing. They are tightly linked, with climate change driving land and nature loss, and degraded ecosystems worsening climate impacts.
Focusing on rangeland restoration in the East African drylands
Addressing the connected crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, water insecurity, and land degradation requires integrated solutions that restore ecosystems, strengthen climate resilience, and support human wellbeing. Restoration is a central approach linking these sustainability goals.
Project approach
Restore4More will operate at two spatial scales: 1. Regional assessments to be implemented in East Africa 2. Four project engagement landscapes have been established within the Karamoja cluster, which provides variation in climate, vegetation, land use, and livelihood strategies, and hence presents an array of challenges and opportunities in the biodiversity-water-climate nexus.
Project structure
Restore4More is structured into five interlinked Work Packages (WPs) that are directly aligned with the five project objectives and feed into each other. Work packages are co-led by a diversity of project researchers, with the aim of continuous and iterative integration of findings.
Gallery
Watch drone films over the Livestock Café at Tomena in Chepareria, West Pokot county, Kenya. The shoots were taken during a dry season, 10 months after the start of the restoration interventions.
Our team
Restore4More consists of a multi-national team of research and scaling partners consisting of 4 universities, an international research organisation, an intergovernmental organisation, a non-profit institute, and a development cooperation organisation.
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A New Mobile Tool for Assisted Citizen Science Monitoring of Rangeland Restoration
With a new mobile app, restoration practitioners in the vast African rangelands can help collect vital data in combatting biodiversity loss and the effects of climate change. -
Building a network of rangeland health monitoring sites in East Africa
The newly established network will foster data-driven decision making around rangeland restoration and sustainable management. -
A letter from Alice, who revisited SLU as a seasoned researcher
In 2024, Alice Turinawe from Uganda visited colleagues in the SLU projects Drylands Transformation and Restore4More. She gave a seminar at the Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics (CERE). Read about her experiences. -
Exploring land restoration: My journey with Restore4More
Caroline Bark, MSc student from the “Sociotechnical Systems Engineering” programme at Uppsala University, has completed her MSc thesis in collaboration with SLU-led projects Restore4More and Drylands Transform. -
Collaborative project for rangeland restoration in East Africa launched
The newly launched Restore4More project seeks to contribute knowledge to guide and scale rangeland restoration in East Africa.