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Find here all climate change, energy and low-carbon development projects, which you can filter by region or country.

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Agroforestry with refugees in North West Uganda

Duration: July 2018 – December 2025

By using tree-based solutions to build farming systems and landscapes that meet multiple needs, this project supports refugees and local people in North West Uganda to protect, plant and regenerate…
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The right tree in the right place for the right purpose: supplying high-quality tree planting material of native tree species (NTS) for landscape restoration in Sub Saharan Africa (RTRP-Seed).

Duration: August 2022 – December 2030

The project addresses the prevailing challenges of African countries to meet their ambitious forest landscape restoration pledges under the Bonn Challenge and AFR100, and their national climate and biodiversity targets.…
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Regional Centre of Excellence (RCoE) for forests, biodiversity and seascape ecosystems management in Eastern and Southern Africa

Duration: January 2024 – January 2028

Since 2019 CIFOR has been implementing the initiative, the Observatory of Forests for Eastern and Southern Africa (OFESA), together with the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD).…
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Promoting integrated landscape management approach for conservation of the Mount Elgon ecosystem in Eastern Uganda

Duration: March 2024 – March 2028

One of Uganda’s critical landscapes faced with vast land management challenges is the Mt. Elgon landscape. This mountain landscape is a food basket supporting a population of approximately four million…
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Developing and testing of The Global Biodiversity Standard (TGBS)

Duration: September 2024 – August 2025

Millions of hectares have been pledged by governments, corporates and NGOs for tree-planting and restoration, mainly to sequester carbon. These efforts primarily plant exotic monocultures, which damage native biodiversity and…
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Intensive Mixed Use Agro-Forestry Systems on Household Plots

Duration: February 2025 – June 2026

This project aims to increase uptake of mixed-use agroforestry models in refugee host communities in 19 target districts in Uganda. The key to achieving the objective is to understand the…
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Regional Multi-actor Research Networks on Agroecology in East Africa (ICIPE to EU/INTPA)

Duration: June 2025 – May 2027

The overall objective of the Regional Multi-Actor Network on Agroecology in East Africa (RMRN-EA) Project is to contribute to a sustainable agri-food system transition based on agroecological principles and practices…
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Securing Tenure Rights for Forest Landscape-Dependent Communities: Linking science with policy to advance tenure security, sustainable forest management and people’s livelihoods

Duration: October 2015 – April 2019

Recent tenure reforms in Africa, Asia and Latin America provide greater legal recognition of customary and local authorities, indigenous territorial rights, and women’s rights. However, implementation of these reforms has…
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The dynamics and governance of Uganda’s informal timber value chains: Identifying appropriate formalization options

Duration: July 2016 – June 2019

Uganda has identified forestry as one of its priority growth sectors, but weak enforcement capacity of law enforcement authorities and inappropriate legal frameworks that forbid chainsaw milling has promoted the…
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2017-2021 International Food Policy Research Institute projects

Duration: January 2017 – December 2021

This project is contributing to an understanding of the interface between individual and collective tenure systems. In particular, CIFOR is examining factors affecting women’s tenure security, collective enterprises, empowerment and…
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The ‘Water Towers’ of East Africa: Policies and Practices for Enhancing Co-benefits from Joint Forest and Water Conservation

Duration: January 2017 – June 2021

Montane forest ecosystems deliver numerous valuable ecosystem services. These include food, feed, fiber, bioenergy and water. The services are necessary for the livelihoods and development of communities living adjacent to…
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Trees for Food Security 2: Developing integrated options and accelerating scaling up of agroforestry for improved food security and resilient livelihoods in Eastern Africa

Duration: January 2017 – June 2021

The ‘Trees for Food Security phase 2 (T4FS-2) project stemmed from the successful completion of phase one’s four-year term project. Learnings obtained from the first phase showed that for enhanced…
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2017 – 2019 IFPRI Project (5.1) : Enhancing Tenure Security

Duration: January 2017 – December 2019

In this project, CIFOR is assessing the significance of factors such as tenure security, including substantive use and access rights to land and trees; benefit-sharing arrangements, including the distribution of…
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Transparence du commerce et de l’exportation du bois d’oeuvre en RDC: appui pour des pratiques améliorées

Duration: July 2020 – July 2021

The project aims to improve the transparency of the artisanal timber mining sector for export. It does this through data collection and analysis of discrepancies between data (volume and cash)…
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Laboratory-Based Soil Analysis: Methodological Research in Uganda

Duration: September 2023 – June 2024

In this project, ICRAF employs the conventional wet chemistry and spectral soil analysis on soil collected from the methodological study conducted in Uganda. ICRAF is not responsible for collecting the…