Experts and community leaders from all over the world have gathered in Nairobi for the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) Africa 2025 in order to examine the continent the possibilities to reverse land deterioration, the loss of biological diversity and the climate crisis.
GLF Africa 2025 focuses on how the nature of Africa can be transported to strength. He will bring your seventh edition entitled “Innovate, Restore, Prosper” into the fact that brings leading voices together from different sectors and backgrounds.
The high-ranking one-day event on June 19, 2025 in the Center for International Forest Research and the headquarters of Agrartry (Cifor-ICRAF) in Gigiri will emphasize the progress, priorities and possibilities of Africa in the establishment of healthy, resilient and successful landscapes.
The event is organized by GLF and CIFOR-ACRAF and includes four key topics and landscape restoration, land and tree use rights and livelihood, natural capital and sustainable finances as well as AI, technology and data for intelligent landscapes.
The Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) is the world's largest knowledge -related platform for integrated land use and combines people with a common vision to create productive, profitable, fair and resilient landscapes.
It is headed by Cifor-ICRAF in cooperation with its co-founders of the UNEP and the World Bank and its charter members.
GLF is devoted to the achievement of the SDGS (Sustainable Development goal), the Paris climate agreement and the global biological diversity frameworks of Kunming-MonTreal (the universal master plan to stop and reverse biological diversity loss) and is committed to the landscape approach.
Unlock potential
This year's event focuses on building Africa's natural economy. Africa faces a triple environmental crisis of land deterioration, loss of biodiversity and climate change, but the current guidelines, financing and land rights do not remain what is necessary.
Time expires to address these challenges, which is why the continent has to build a strong natural economy today.
According to GLF, this means its huge natural capital – its forests, its biological diversity, country and water – in combination with deep knowledge systems, good government, meaningful partnerships, artificial intelligence (AI) and big data.
The event of 2025 GLF Africa in Nairobi Event offers more than 60 inspiring speakers, including Balbina Andrew, Tanzania Indigenous Community Leader, the Executive Director of Nourish Africa and coordinator of the locally guided initiatives GLFX-MWanza-Mwanza and Kate-Kallot, Founders and CEO-MEO-AFRISTE. Ai.
Other speakers are Ciforicraf-Africa director Peter Minang, expert for air-conditioning landscapes, and Ngobi Joel, co-founder of the Schulfood Forest Initiative, a 2025 GLF Forest restoration Steward and activists who focus on climate, education and development of the country in Uganda.
Rekia Foudel, founder and managing director of Barka Fund, one of the 8 women of the GLF with a new vision for Earth 2025, which brings in innovative funding for African start-ups, will also speak in the forum, as will be in the forum, as does Sellah Bogonko, co-founder and CEO of Jacobs Ladder Africa, the 30 million Green jobs on Africa with Africa, activated with Africa to to activate with 2033.
As long as Bandiagy-Badji, President of the Rights and Resources Group (RRG) and coordinator of the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), which cited the Gender Justice Program from RRI, is also one of the speakers.
These managers are accompanied by many other change makers in adolescents, research, storytelling, science, gender -specific justice, sustainable financing and politics in order to discuss issues such as the future of Africa and the promise of the nature -centered economies.
The participants will also discuss the confronted challenges to ensure rights, lands and livelihood and to scale the natural regeneration of farmers with examples of actions in Ethiopia and Kenya.
Further topics include the bridging domains for the restoration of the landscape, the financing of actions for climate, nature and livelihood, how Africa can lead the transformation of Agri-Tech transformations, and to act from vision-a roadmap for the Africa natural economy.
In addition to GLF Africa 2025, the GLF will include youth and local executives throughout the continent during the Africa Restauration Week during the Africa recovery week during the Africa Restauration Week.
Financing front lines
It is expected that the workshops, interactive learning and peer-networking experiences, scientific research and regional insights into political, evidence-based recovery measures, including decision-making, landscape approaches, the breaking of silos, climate protection and donation campaigns.
The session “from the risk of resistance: financing of measures for the climate, nature and livelihood” will have an interesting conversation. The current financial framework of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) is still largely focused on the screening of risks.
But they are not enough to tackle the climate emergency. The session therefore require the radical thinking of sustainable financing-one that relocates the capital flows to the front, where you can support locally guided solutions for climate effectiveness, restoration of ecosystems and improved livelihood.
Trailblazer that turn the ESG and invest in the investment in tools for regeneration, inclusion and sustainability show how finances can help to achieve the goals for sustainable development (SDGS) by investing in small farmers, rural communities and landscape restaurants.
Experiences and strategies for scaling farmers, the natural regeneration (FMNR) through measures in Ethiopia and Kenya that emphasize the role of communities, governments and development partners, are discussed internationally by knowledge from the FMNR scaling manual and the Atingi-e-learning module by WV.
Through case representations, dialogue and reflection, the session will determine important opportunities, challenges and enabling to expand FMNR throughout Africa in order to advance the forest and landscape restoration goals based on these East African case studies.
Another session examines how African tech solutions change the agricultural food systems by smarter, more integrative and adaptable and more adaptable to today's challenges.
Panellists share solutions that integrate AI and technology into traditional knowledge to develop real solutions for local ecosystems.
Leading African innovators and practitioners of African women at the interface between digital transformation and sustainable development not only imagine the future, but they build them up, say the organizers GLF Africa 2025.
“In a world in which science is questioned, facts can be politicized and AI distort the truth whose knowledge shapes our future?” They ask and answer that in many forms there is knowledge in many forms that there are knowledge in many forms that some forms are rejected or forgotten. “
An interactive session will question this imbalance and find out how diverse knowledge systems coexist, compete and enrich each other.
Taking into account teachings from Regreening Africa, the Great Green Wall and beyond, the discussions in the forum examine how to build trust, legitimacy and innovation across knowledge areas in order to drive up in the long -level integrative landscape restoration in a rapidly changing world.
Cifor-ICRAF CEO and General Director Eliane Ubalijoro will distill key messages from the discussions of GLF Africa 2025 about the next for the natural economy of Africa in the development of a roadmap to enlarge a new development model for the continent.
It will be an investable, people -centered, technically supported roadmap to scale the natural economy of Africa and create millions of jobs for municipalities on the entire continent.
The forum will serve as a platform to inform itself about the growing movement of the landscape restoration movement in Africa, the tools, partnerships and innovations that have to convert to reality to restore and the natural economic goals of the continent – from blended finance and impact investment in AI and local upcaling.