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Enormous government project nearly 50 years in the making encircles desert with trees: 'The Great Green Wall'
Not to be confused with another ambitious Great Green Wall in Africa ... increasingly important as the planet warms and affects water supplies. "After 1999, when the tree-planting sped up ...
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Africa's Great Green Wall will only combat desertification and poverty by harnessing local solutions, say researchers
The Great Green Wall initiative is a tree planting restoration project that stretches from Senegal to Djibouti, 5,000 miles (8,000km) across Africa's Sahel region. In Téssékéré, bare ...
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Africa’s incredible £26bn megaproject set to transform country with huge man-made forest
An African region that was just recently relying on food aid in order to survive today is thriving, with around half a million people feeding off its once drought-ridden land. The Great Green Wall ...
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Carbon offsetting in arid lands won’t help fight climate change: the Great Green Wall shows why
Sunset over the Sahel in Niger. Credit: Harmattan Toujours The huge environmental project stretching across the Sahel region of Africa, known as the Great Green Wall (GGW), provides the biggest ...
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Transparency and integrity of the Great Green Wall Initiative in the Sahel Region (GGWI)
Substantive funds for climate action are (meant to be) channelled through the Great Green Wall Initiative which tackles challenges of desertification, land degradation and climate change in the Sahel ...