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Is the Great Green Wall in Sahel a sustainable strategy?

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It is against this background of conspicuous and multifaceted land degradation that the Great Green Wall (GGW) initiative emerged as a pan-African program to “green” the .... read more

Not just because there is no agreement over what a sustainable strategy is, but also because these types of projects are normally so complex that we can only really tell how good an idea they were in hindsight. read more

Imagine a green wall – 15km wide, and up to 8,000km long – a living green wall of trees and bushes, full of birds and other animals. Imagine it just south of the Sahara, from Djibouti in the Horn of Africa in the east, all the way across the continent to Dakar, Senegal, in the west. read more

The Great Green Wall, or Great Green Wall of the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative (French: Grande Muraille Verte pour le Sahara et le Sahel), is Africa's flagship initiative to combat the effects of climate change and desertification. read more

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