**Africa Climate Week advances tree restoration pledges but a big seed shortage remains**

If you are going to restore 24 million hectares of degraded land, a lot of things need to go right. Sub-Saharan countries Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana and Kenya plan to have that much land on track to being restored by 2030. While several components of the plan are in place, many others are not. Perhaps the most pressing is how to source and plant enough material from native tree species—seeds, seedlings and other material like cuttings.

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-africa-climate-week-advances-tree.html