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The Great Green Wall is a spectacular bid to restore savannas, grasslands and farmlands across the breadth of Africa. It’s designed to help families and nature cope with climate change and keep the Sahara from spreading deeper into one of the world’s poorest regions. Launched by the African Union in 2007, this flagship has grown from a tree ...
A MUSICAL JOURNEY. Executive Producer Fernando Meirelles (Academy Award-Nominated Director of City of God & The Constant Gardener) and Malian musician/activist Inna Modja take us on an epic journey along Africa's Great Green Wall — an ambitious vision to grow an 8,000km 'wall’ of trees stretching across the entire width of the continent to restore land and provide a future for millions of ...
The Great Green Wall supports an astonishing 15 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Growing a green wall across the Sahel does much more than just restore degraded land. This extraordinary initiative fights poverty and hunger, builds local resilience to climate change, improves health and well-being, creates jobs, boosts economic opportunities and much muc
The Circular Gardens of Senegal. The key to the success of the Great Green Wall will be in how it maximises local expertise. In Senegal, that means the development of spectacular, circular-shaped community gardens, called tolou keur. 10 Partly driven by the Covid-19 pandemic, to help villagers become more self-sufficient when the country's borders closed to imports, these gardens are the ...
Mar 17, 2021 · To hold back the Sahara Desert, the Great Green Wall initiative hopes to restore 100 million hectares of land in the north of Africa by 2030. Jane Hahn/Redux. Launched in 2007, the project spans ...
The catalyst for the Great Green Wall is the daily impact of desertification and climate change that is undermining the futures of millions of communities across Africa's Sahel region. Since the 1970s, the Sahel has been heavily affected by recurrent periods of drought. These droughts have threatened the livelihoods and future of entire ...
Jan 13, 2021 · The Great Green wall is growing vegetation and restoring a band of land from Senegal to Djibouti to help boost food security, improve health, and create thousands of new jobs and income opportunities for the communities living there. Focus will be laid on sustainable land use, indigenous farming techniques and green jobs.
