Restoring the land across Africa

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2023 Audacious Project grantee Wanjira Mathai is at the forefront of re-greening the planet. Through the forest restoration initiative Restore Local, she’s working to help both Africa’s people and its landscapes flourish. Learn more about how her team invests in local restoration projects across the continent — including a tree-growing movement that aims to revitalize 100 million hectares of African land by 2030.

This ambitious idea is a part of the Audacious Project, TED’s initiative to inspire and fund global change. Realize Impact participates in this project by operating the investments into for-profit SMEs that restore land as part of their operations.

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January 23, 2022

The TerraFund

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January 23, 2022
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Six years ago, African leaders recognized that the degradation of 65 percent of the continent’s agricultural land threatens economic and environmental ruin for millions of farmers. They realized this just as the effects of climate change – lower crop yields, erratic rainfall, prolonged droughts – are making life harder for millions of farmers, herders, and city dwellers. That’s why African...

December 10, 2021

Donate your Zombies

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December 10, 2021
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In venture capital, a “zombie” investment is an investment into a perfectly good company, one that earns revenues and pays it payroll and bills, but which isn’t growing quickly and thus isn’t worth more than the investment capital. Some loans to SMEs (small and medium enterprises) can be zombies too, if the company is breaking even, earning enough to pay the payroll, rent...