{"id":463942,"date":"2011-07-19T10:45:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T10:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/19\/forest-restoration-an-important-milestone-kamanzi\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T10:45:21","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T10:45:21","slug":"forest-restoration-an-important-milestone-kamanzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/19\/forest-restoration-an-important-milestone-kamanzi\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest Restoration an Important Milestone &#8211; Kamanzi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"44.7257864751\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/newtimes180.jpg\" alt=\"The New Times (Kigali)\" title=\"Visit The New Times (Kigali)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Charles Kwizera<\/p>\n<p>19 July 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>The Minister of Natural Resources, Stanislas Kamanzi, has described the border-to-border restoration of the forest landscape initiative that the country has embarked on as an important milestone.<\/p>\n<p>He made the remarks yesterday at the opening of a three-day meeting to discuss the implementation of the ambitious plan.<\/p>\n<p>The plan was announced in February this year at the launch of the International Year of Forests. Government plans to integrate landscape restoration into its national development plans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let me thank everyone for taking your time to come here as we mark an important milestone towards effectively setting off activities relevant to this important initiative,&#8221; Kamanzi said at the opening.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that Rwanda&#8217;s over-dependence on land resources has resulted in advanced levels of land degradation which need to be controlled for sustainable development to be achieved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Succeeding in the landscape restoration endevour will be very important for us,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister observed that though the undertaking may appear as a challenge, it is within reach. &#8220;The nation has established strong and cutting-edge policies and regulations relevant to the management of the environment and natural resources. These provide a sound framework for real transformation to take place in this connection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He emphasised that as the meeting ensues, they will not be starting from scratch as regard vis-\u00e0-vis the targeted activities because Rwanda has for the past years embarked on a variety of initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>He mentioned these as the intensive soil conservation and erosion control, afforestation and on-farm tree planting as part of the national food security agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to The New Times, the Director General of the World Agroforestry Centre Dr. Dennis P. Garrity, who is a participant said the initiative is a major undertaking for Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>He said that during the meeting, they would try to draw examples from several neighbouring countries to come up with a framework.<\/p>\n<p>The Global Environmental Facility (GEF) has raised Rwanda&#8217;s resource allocation framework by an additional US$6 million (approximately Rwf3.6 billion) to help initiate the Rwanda landscape restoration initiative.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>View post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201107190468.html\" title=\"Forest Restoration an Important Milestone - Kamanzi\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forest Restoration an Important Milestone &#8211; Kamanzi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Charles Kwizera 19 July 2011 The Minister of Natural Resources, Stanislas Kamanzi, has described the border-to-border restoration of the forest landscape initiative that the country has embarked on as an important milestone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Forest Restoration an Important Milestone - Kamanzi - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/19\/forest-restoration-an-important-milestone-kamanzi\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Forest Restoration an Important Milestone - Kamanzi - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Charles Kwizera 19 July 2011 The Minister of Natural Resources, Stanislas Kamanzi, has described the border-to-border restoration of the forest landscape initiative that the country has embarked on as an important milestone.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/newtimes180.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/19\/forest-restoration-an-important-milestone-kamanzi\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/19\/forest-restoration-an-important-milestone-kamanzi\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Forest Restoration an Important Milestone &#8211; 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