Mali's 'Moringa Queen' wins UN recognition for restoring degraded land
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Rokiatu Traoré, president of social enterprise Herou Alliance in Mali, was named a Changemaker at the UN's Sustainable Development Goals Action Awards for using agroforestry to restore degraded land and create jobs for women and youth; the organization has planted 150,000 moringa and baobab trees, trained 2,000 smallholder farmers, and set a target of restoring 10 million hectares of degraded land by 2040.
There is insufficient research on how well moringa performs in reforestation programmes in the arid Sahel region specifically.
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