Africa’s ambitious Great Green Wall, a mosaic of reforestation efforts to stop desertification, has been plagued by delays and challenges. Some reforestation efforts, however, have tasted ...

The Great Green Wall is a project to restore degraded land in nearly two dozen African countries. Deforestation, agricultural expansion, and drought have caused desertification across the ...

By Spoorthy Raman The Great Green Wall in the Sahel, a mosaic of forests, farmlands and grasslands dotting the arid fringes of Sahara, was launched by the African Union in 2007 to fight ...

Few climate adaption projects can match the sheer ambition — or unfullfilled promise — of Africa’s “Great Green Wall.” The United Nations-backed initiative, launched in 2007, aims to ...

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 ...

Africa’s ‘Great Green Wall’ shifts focus to hold off desert. Only 4% of the Great Green Wall’s original goal has been met, and an estimated $43 billion would be needed to achieve the rest.

The Great Green Wall need not be seen as an all or nothing proposition. Those 18 million hectares that have been reclaimed are not nothing, and one imagines the communities in these areas are ...

If this seems familiar, we previously covered the Great Green Wall at a more macro level. While we’re restoring the environment with green infrastructure, can we plant a trillion trees?

It’s been slow-going building Africa’s so-called Great Green Wall of trees and bushes intended to stretch nearly 8,000 kilometers from Mauritania in the west to tiny Djibouti in the east.

In 2007, the African Union launched the Great Green Wall initiative to be a unified, multi-state response to increasing desertification across the region, with 11 main national partners.