A structured programme for dryland restoration, sand stabilisation, and oasis-belt regeneration in arid environments across MENA and Central Asia.
Over 2 billion people live in dryland regions. Desertification, soil degradation, and loss of productive land threaten food security, economic stability, and human displacement at unprecedented scale.
Conventional approaches — tree planting campaigns, irrigation-dependent schemes, and short-term NGO projects — have a poor track record. What works is systematic, locally adapted restoration that rebuilds soil function before expecting vegetation to survive.
Focused on restoring productive capacity to degraded agricultural land in arid and semi-arid zones. Combines soil amendment, water harvesting, and adapted crop/fodder species to rebuild agricultural viability without irrigation dependency.
Target zones: MENA, Sahel, Central Asia
Focused on ecological restoration — rebuilding native vegetation communities, stabilising mobile sand, and creating functional ecosystems that support biodiversity and carbon sequestration in dryland environments.
Target zones: Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, Central Asian steppes
Desert2Green is open to practitioners with dryland experience, researchers working on arid zone restoration, and organisations seeking to implement landscape-scale programmes in MENA or Central Asia.