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 ...

To combat the brewing drought and desertification, the African Union developed the Great Green Wall Initiative in 2007. The ...

It is easy to sway public opinion with soundbites but the debate on foreign aid needs composure and a view towards broader ...

Minister of Environment, Balarabe Abbas Lawal, has reiterated Nigeria’s commitment to the Great Green Wall initiative, which aims to restore 100 million hectares of land by 2030.He gave the commitment ...

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 ...

An epic journey along Africa's Great Green Wall — an ambitious vision to grow a wall of trees stretching across the entire continent to fight against increasing drought, desertification and ...

The much applauded Great Green Wall (GWW) is facing difficulties due to a top-down approach to international development in the Global South. According to a leading scientist involved with the ...

This map shows the chain of highlands and mountain ranges that University of Utah geologists Royhan and Nahid Gani dub "the Wall of Africa ... lower elevations in green and blue.

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 ...

Learn more about the large ecosystems known as biomes, such as deserts and boreal forests. Learn about the causes and effects of desertification, and Africa's Great Green Wall is helping to stop ...