He said, “The ACReSAL project of the World Bank has an investment portfolio of $700m to essentially intervene and address issues surrounding landscape restoration and degradation arising from desertification and deforestation that were brought about by climate change.
“Our expectation is that by mid-year review timeframe we would have been able to deliver more than 60 per cent of the goals at the land restoration level and the beneficiaries in total,” Umar stated. “So, the bank has made the fund available, essentially to address challenges that have been brought about by climate change. The mandate is for us to recover one million landscapes before the end of the project.”
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