The document discusses the challenges facing dryland regions in West Africa, including increasing temperatures, declining rainfall, soil degradation, and high population growth. It then outlines grassroots solutions that have shown success, such as farmer-managed natural regeneration of trees, rainwater harvesting, integrated soil fertility management, and adoption of drought-resistant cropping systems. These approaches emphasize low-cost regeneration methods, improving food security and livelihoods, and are being adopted by millions of smallholders and implemented in national scaling-up programs across Africa to help address the crises in the drylands.