ERC Starting Grant · 2023
Regreening Africa with natural regeneration
The challenge. With 65% of agricultural land in Africa degraded, the need to effectively scale up restoration is evident. Natural regeneration (NR) is a promising restoration solution that depends on vegetation regrowing from seed or tree stumps, without the need to plant trees. However, we do not know what regenerates where and what benefits it may bring. What we do know comes from ecological studies on secondary succession that exclude human influences. This informs restoration poorly since people continuously use, manage and control NR. Aims. This study aims to 1) evaluate how NR develops over time and what benefits it brings, to 2) explore the optimal social-ecological conditions for…
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