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HArVESTiNG & STorAGE

K4GGWA and New Holland launch innovation Call to

Accelerate land restoration Across the Great Green Wall

250 million tonnes of carbon and create
10 million green jobs across the Sahel
and Horn of Africa.

The K4GGWA Innovation Facility sup-
ports innovators whose solutions di-
rectly contribute to these objectives by
strengthening sustainable land man-
agement, landscape restoration and cli-
mate resilience.
The call welcomes innovations that
address one or more restoration chal-
lenges, including:
• Land preparation and planting
• Soil health improvement and carbon
retention
• Water harvesting and conservation

• Erosion control and soil conservation
• Vegetation establishment and res-
toration
The Knowledge for Great Green Wall Sudan. • Labour reduction and productivity
Action (K4GGWA) programme, funded "Healthy soils are the foundation of
by the European Union and imple- resilient landscapes, food security enhancement
mented by the Landscape Alliance (CI- and sustainable livelihoods," said the Eligible innovations may include
FOR & ICRAF in Action) and FAO (Food K4GGWA team. "Across the Great hand-operated tools, animal-drawn
and Agriculture Organization of the Green Wall region, local innovators are equipment, tractor-mounted imple-
United Nations) in partnership with New developing practical solutions that can ments, or other practical technologies
Holland, a brand of CNH, has launched help communities restore degraded that contribute to land restoration and
the K4GGWA Innovation Facility’s the land while improving productivity and sustainable land management.
fifth call for innovation, seeking inno- resilience. Through this call, we aim to
vative tools and technologies that can identify and support innovations with Examples include:
help restore degraded land across Afri- the potential to deliver impact at scale." • Tools for ploughing, digging trenches
ca's Great Green Wall region. and preparing planting holes
“In CNH we drive scalable solutions
Launched on the World Day to Combat • Water harvesting and erosion control
Desertification and Drought, this call for land restoration and soil health. equipment
for innovation focuses on Regenera- Through a joint technical committee
with our partners, we share our know-
tive Tools for Land Preparation and Soil how to support and empower local • Contour marking and soil conserva-
Health and aims to identify practical farming across the Great Green Wall tion tools
innovations that support farmers, pasto- • Labour-saving devices that reduce
ralists, and restoration practitioners in region. At the same time, we invest in physical effort and increase efficiency
the future of sustainable agriculture
improving soil health, increasing pro- by training young local people within
ductivity, conserving water, and restor- • Technologies that improve soil fertil-
ing degraded landscapes. CNH.” said Daniela Ropolo, CNH Head ity and support carbon sequestration
of Sustainable Development Initiatives.
The call is open to innovators, entre- Particular attention will be given to
preneurs, researchers, manufacturers, The Great Green Wall Initiative is Afri- innovations that are robust, affordable
farmers' organizations and restoration ca's flagship programme for combating and easy to manufacture, maintain and
land degradation, climate change and
practitioners from the eleven Great repair locally, ensuring that solutions
Green Wall countries: Burkina Faso, biodiversity loss. can be adopted and scaled by commu-
Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, By 2030, it aims to restore 100 million nities across the region.
Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and hectares of degraded land, sequester Circle 29 on enquiry card
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