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The Great Green Wall Initiative of the Sahara and the Sahel is Africa’s Flagship programme including a mosaic of land-based projects leveraging the land-water-energy Nexus for restored land, carbon capture and more green jobs in the Sahel for Youth and Women.
Oct 19, 2023 · Great Green Wall. The "Great Green Wall" is an initiative to increase the amount of arable land in the Sahel, the region bordering Africa's Sahara Desert. Eleven nations are investing in projects as varied as agroforestry to sustainable development. Map by John Kappler, National Geographic. Photograph. Photograph.
The GGW initiative’s ambition is to restore 100 million hectares of currently degraded land; sequester 250 million tons of carbon and create 10 million green jobs by 2030. This will help communities living along the Wall to grow: one of humanity’s most precious natural assets: fertile land.
The Great Green Wall or Great Green Wall of the Sahara and the Sahel (French: Grande Muraille Verte pour le Sahara et le Sahel; Arabic: السور الأخضر العظيم, romanized: as-Sūr al-ʾAkhḍar al-ʿAẓīm) is a project adopted by the African Union in 2007, initially conceived as a way to combat desertification in the Sahel region ...
The Great Green Wall is one of the most inspirational and urgent movements of our times. This African-led initiative aims to grow an 8000km new world wonder across the entire width of the Continent to transform the lives of millions living on the frontline of climate change.
A monumental undertaking, the Great Green Wall promises to transform the edges of the southern Sahara into a thriving, forested landscape. Once complete, it will be the largest living structure on the planet, three times the size of the Great Barrier Reef.
By 2030, the Wall aims to restore 100 million hectares of currently degraded land, sequester 250 million tonnes of carbon and create 10 million jobs in rural areas. The Great Green Wall contributes directly to the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals.
