El País: Desert on one side, green on the other
08 May 2016
08 May 2016
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...
El País: A great wall of hope
06 May 2016
06 May 2016
Imagine a mantle of green landscape around the Sahara desert. Not a concrete of barbed wired wall to keep people inside or out. But woods and pastures and fields to grow food and generate income and a future for communities...
A massive-scale project proposed by the African Union, partly funded by the EU, will see a wall of trees erected at the edge of the Sahara, in an attempt to prevent the desert encroaching further. EURACTIV’s partner El País –...
DAKAR — The African Union is holding the first ever international conference on the Great Green Wall in Dakar this week. The goal is to map out a strategy to stop desertification in the Sahel-Sahara region, which experts say is...
"Great Green Wall" thousands of mile long could be built across Africa to stop the spread of the Sahara
03 May 2016
03 May 2016
A grand vision for a wall of vegetation reaching thousands of miles across Africa and slowing the spread of the Sahara Desert took a step closer to becoming a reality yesterday with the first international conference to discuss how to...