What is TerraFund for AFR100?

Restoring degraded and deforested land is key to holding global average warming to below 1.5°C. To fight climate change, boost food security, and help thousands of rural communities thrive, 33 African governments have pledged to begin restoring 100 million hectares of degraded land by 2030 through the AFR100 Initiative. Hundreds of local innovators are now pioneering project and business models that show that restoration can create a prosperous, net-zero emissions future for Africa.

But they need support. That is why funders are looking to finance the top non-profit community organizations and for-profit businesses that are restoring land by planting and growing trees in rural and urban landscapes.

After selecting of cohort of 100 restoration champions in 2021, the TerraFund for AFR100 initiative has expanded its network, and selected a new cohort from the three target landscapes. After a two-stage application process that ended in October 2023, 92 restoration champions from Kenya’s Greater Rift Valley, Lake Kivu & Rusizi River Basin of Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda, and Ghana Cocoa Belt will begin work in 2024.