Developing Rwandan Capacity in On-Farm Native Species Restoration Processes

Restoring degraded land in the global tropics is a massive challenge, not least because many of these lands are under intense cultivation on small farms. Since 2006, Yale’s Environmental Leadership & Training Initiative (ELTI) has conducted multi-disciplinary training workshops in the Neotropics and in Southeast Asia in the skills needed to undertake such restoration. In this project, ELTI will work with key Rwandan stakeholders to co-develop trainings focused on the adoption and long-term management of native trees on-farm. The country has publicly committed to ambitious restoration goals, and stakeholders there have expressed interest in partnering with Yale.