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country while desertification and desert encroachment are serious environmental issues in northern parts of the country.

However, about 192 countries across the globe are participating in this year’s campaign.

Essentially, NIRSAL and its partners under the GTC project will collaborate with selected Primary schools across the country to effectively transfer knowledge and skills that will promote Environmental and Climate Literacy across the country.

The Managing Director of NIRSAL, Mr. Aliyu Abdulhameed said the initiative will involve NIRSAL support for school children between the ages of 4-14 years in all state capitals in the country to learn sustainable tree planting skills within the context of climate change and agriculture.

Specifically, he said about 1000 trees will be planted in the first phase 1 of the pilot across six state capitals in each of the geo-political zones of the country.

Also, an incentive-based system will be worked out to reward outstanding Child Tree Custodians to be funded by NIRSAL.

It is expected that the measuring and communication of the mitigating impacts of these activities will also be a key outcome.

Furthermore, these children would be trained and equipped to be child custodians of these trees in major selected “Green Streets” in each state capital.

He said: “At NIRSAL, we recognise that environmental and climate literacy will be vital in ensuring that our farmers, partners and stakeholders adopt the Climate Smart Approaches to agriculture in ensuring food security, economic empowerment, mitigating against climate change, gender and social inclusion among others.”