Restoring Ghana’s Forests: How Kwame Sekyere Rebuilds Land, Livelihoods & Local Resilience | S03E14

🌱 Can restoring forests restore communities too? In this insightful episode of Tangelic Talks, co-hosts Victoria Cornelio and Andres Tamez sit down with Kwame Sekyere — an environmental scientist, project manager at Tropenbos Ghana, and a passionate leader in forest restoration. Kwame works at the heart of the Forest Restoration for Diversity and Livelihoods Project in Asante Akyem South, a transformative initiative supported by TerraFund for AFR100 that rejuvenates degraded forests while strengthening local livelihoods for women and youth.

Together, they explore how restoring landscapes is deeply tied to climate justice, community resilience, traditional knowledge, and sustainable land use across Ghana. This episode reveals the human and ecological story behind forest restoration — and why protecting trees means protecting people.

Restoring Ghana’s Forests: How Kwame Sekyere Rebuilds Land, Livelihoods & Local Resilience

🌍 Episode Highlights:
🌿 Why Ghana’s forests are degrading — and what’s driving deforestation
👥 The power of community-led forest restoration
🏞️ How Tropenbos Ghana blends science, tradition, and local knowledge
🌾 Climate-smart agriculture explained — and how it strengthens resilience
🐝 Beekeeping, mushroom farming & alternative livelihoods for rural farmers
🌳 Native tree species, biodiversity loss & ecosystem recovery
🚰 Forests, water security & why trees are the backbone of rural life
🤝 How NGOs, governments & communities collaborate for land justice
📉 The challenges of funding, illegal mining & insecure land tenure
📍 What COP looks like from the Global South perspective
💡 Why forest restoration must start with people, not trees
🌎 Hope: new tools, tech, climate finance & global restoration movements

🔹 About Our Guest: Kwame Sekyere is a project manager at Tropenbos Ghana, a leading environmental NGO dedicated to sustainable forest management and landscape restoration. With over a decade of experience supporting rural communities, Kwame works at the intersection of conservation, livelihood development, and climate resilience — helping farmers restore degraded forests while improving income, food security, and environmental stewardship.

📌 Timestamps:
00:00–01:31 Global North, Global South & The Push for Restoration
01:32–02:58 Meet Kwame Sekyere: Environmental Scientist & Forest Restorer
02:59–04:54 Tropenbos Ghana: Origins, Mission & Community-Centered Work
04:55–06:48 What’s Driving Deforestation? Farming, Mining & Land Tenure
06:49–08:42 Community Needs: Native Trees, Livelihoods & Local Solutions
08:43–10:35 Entering Communities: Chiefs, Dialogue & Trust Building
10:36–12:32 Climate-Smart Agriculture: Productivity, Adaptation & Emissions
12:33–15:24 Forest Restoration: Regeneration, Biodiversity & Local Ownership
15:25–19:43 Why Forests Matter: Water, Wildlife & Community Survival
19:44–24:58 Inside COP: Finance, Justice & Slow but Needed Global Change
24:59–29:38 Global Restoration: Compensation, Development & Fair Transitions
29:39–33:32 Final Thoughts, Tropenbos Shoutouts & Closing Outro

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