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Mary Perpetua Kwakuyi

Goshen Global Vision

Executive Director

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Mary Perpetua Kwakuyi is the Executive Director of Goshen Global Vision, a community-led natural resources management NGO building capacities of women, youth and students in urban, peri-urban and rural landscapes restoration to ensure food security, poverty alleviation, improved livelihoods whilst increasing tree cover. Inspired by an ancient proverb, “we do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children”. Her organization has led the planting of 429,731 trees, restoring 18,777.78 hectare benefitting over 23,000 cocoa families of which 82% are women and 78% youth respectively in Ghana’s Western Region.

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How land restoration can heal the planet

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GLOBAL LANDSCAPES FORUM (GLF)

The Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) is the world’s largest knowledge-led platform on integrated land use, dedicated to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Climate Agreement. The Forum takes a holistic approach to create sustainable landscapes that are productive, prosperous, equitable and resilient and considers five cohesive themes of food and livelihoods, landscape restoration, rights, finance and measuring progress. It is led by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), in collaboration with its co-founders UNEP and the World Bank and Charter Members. Charter members: CIAT, CIFOR-ICRAF, CIRAD, Climate Focus, Conservation International, Crop Trust, Ecoagriculture Partners, The European Forest Institute, Evergreen Agriculture, FAO, FSC, GEF, GIZ, ICIMOD, IFOAM - Organics International, The International Livestock Research Institute, INBAR, IPMG, IUFRO, Rainforest Alliance, Rare, Rights and Resources Initiative, SAN, TMG-Think Tank for Sustainability, UNCCD, UNEP, Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation part of Wageningen Research, World Farmer Organization, World Agroforestry, World Bank Group, World Resources Institute, WWF International, Youth in Landscapes Initiative (YIL)