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Africa's 'great green wall' is stalling: In Senegal very few planted areas show progress

Africa's Great Green Wall project began as an ambitious plan to build a 15-kilometer-wide band of trees across the north of Africa. The African Union launched the project in 2007 with plans for the ...
The Conversation

Africa’s Great Green Wall will only combat desertification and poverty by harnessing local solutions

Jeremy Allouche receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. In the rural village of Téssékéré, the increasing number and intensity of droughts linked to climate change is making ...
Mongabay

Collaboration, data and tracking move Africa’s Great Green Wall toward its goal

After years of delays due to insufficient funding and prevailing conflicts, the Great Green Wall in the Sahel, aimed at preventing desertification, gained momentum with an accelerator program ...
Mongabay

Senegal’s great green wall progress falters amid unfulfilled pledges: Study

A recent study has examined the progress to realize Africa’s Great Green Wall initiative in Senegal, which is often hailed as the model for this continent-wide project. The study finds Senegal has ...
The Conversation

Africa’s ‘great green wall’ is stalling: in Senegal very few planted areas show progress

Annah Lake Zhu receives funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). Amadou Ndiaye works at Amadou Mahtar Mbow university. So far, more than US$20 billion has been pledged, including large sums of ...