El País: Desert on one side, green on the other
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In 2007, the African Union launched a programme called the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and Sahel to revert land degradation and desertification and help communities adapt to climate change. It’s not only about planting a monumental defense line of tres, it is a major rural development programme on the fringes of the Sahara desert [read full article in Spanish].