{"id":54687,"date":"2024-06-18T08:03:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T08:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/06\/18\/taita-taveta-on-course-to-deliver-forest-and-landscape-restoration-implementation-plan\/"},"modified":"2024-06-18T08:03:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T08:03:19","slug":"taita-taveta-on-course-to-deliver-forest-and-landscape-restoration-implementation-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/taita-taveta-on-course-to-deliver-forest-and-landscape-restoration-implementation-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Taita Taveta on course to deliver Forest and Landscape Restoration Implementation Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>VOI, Kenya, Jun 18 \u2014 Governor Andrew Mwadime has promised to back a Forest and Landscape Restoration Implementation Plan (FOLAREP)<\/strong> <strong>that will inform an ambitious forest regeneration roadmap by Taita Taveta.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mwadime made the commitment on Monday during a validation session in Voi, where he likened the plan to a healing process for land degraded by the effects of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>He vowed to promptly assent on the framework one it undergoes necessary preparatory stages. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRestoring is a remedy towards rehabilitating degraded land. Indeed this aligns with my manifesto which talks of promoting environmental conservation within a sustainable framework. Restoration through tree-growing is to be instrumental in carbon offset and purifying air,\u201d Governor Mwadime, who also chairs the Council of Governors-Kenya (CoG) Committee for Water, Forestry, and Natural Resources Management, stated.<\/p>\n<p>Grantone Mwandawiro, the County Executive Committee Member for Water, Sanitation, Environment, Climate Change, and Natural Resources, echoed the governor\u2019s sentiments. <\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/image-10.png\"><\/a>Taita Taveta Environment CECM Grantone Mwandawiro.<\/div>\n<p>He stated that once domesticated, the FOLAREP document would serve as a guide in implementing restoration efforts of 226,420ha of degraded landscapes and also help in attracting climate financing.<\/p>\n<p>Robin Chacha, Research Associate CIFOR-ICRAF, hailed this as a significant milestone towards landscape restoration and reduced emissions. <\/p>\n<p>Meshack Muga, the National Project Coordinator for the Kenya ASAL TRI project, noted that the plan would advance the president\u2019s agenda to grow 15 billion trees countrywide.<\/p>\n<p>The FOLAREP domestication is supported by the UK PACT project themed \u201cDelivering Nature-based Solutions Outcomes by Addressing Policy, Institutional and Monitoring Gaps in Forest and Landscape Restoration\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>The project is being implemented by World Agroforestry ICRAF, Africa Wildlife Foundation AWF, the Food Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations FAO-Kenya, and the County Government.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOI, Kenya, Jun 18 \u2014 Governor Andrew Mwadime has promised to back a Forest and Landscape Restoration Implementation Plan (FOLAREP) that will inform an ambitious forest regeneration roadmap by Taita Taveta. Mwadime made the commitment on Monday during a validation session in Voi, where he likened the plan to a healing process for land degraded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}