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2 days ago · The Great Green Wall in Africa. Imagine growing a belt of trees and forests that stretches 8,000 kilometers across the Sahel region in Africa. When completed, the Great Green Wall will divide north and south, spanning across 11 countries from Senegal in the West to Djibouti in the East. But the wall is not meant to keep invaders out.
2 days ago · The program is called the Pan-Africa Initiative for the Great Green Wall (GGW). The initiative aims at helping to halt desertification and land degradation in the Sahelian zone, improving the lives and livelihoods of smallholder farmers and pastoralists in the area and helping its populations to develop effective adaptation strategies and ...
11 hours ago · The Great Green Wall: A Plan for Restoration. The Great Green Wall project, launched in 1978, aims to create a green barrier against the expanding deserts. It involves planting billions of trees across a 4,500-kilometer (2,800-mile) stretch of northern China. The goal is to restore degraded land, improve soil health, and combat climate change.
3 days ago · The Desa’a project in Ethiopia’s Tigray region has successfully completed an independent third-party audit conducted by Preferred by Nature (PbN), gaining verification under their rigorous Ecosystem Restoration Standard (ERS), which considers more than just environmental impact.
5 days ago · The Global Environment Facility’s governing body has approved more than $700 million for nature protection and renewal projects, including support for the Great Green Wall and investment in large-scale initiatives for sustainable cities, cleaner industries, improved ocean and land health, and greater climate change resilience.
5 days ago · The case study site is the Great Green Wall in Africa, where efforts are underway at the continental scale to contain the expansion of the Sahara Desert. While this is an example of land restoration that is very strongly focused on social and economic outcomes, I found the logic of what is being undertaken and their methods absolutely fascinating.
4 days ago · Based on the Abrahamic belief that the original paradise, Eden, was also the locus of original sin, these include the good (such as Africa’s Great Green Wall, intended as a barrier to desertification), the megalomaniacal (such as Steve Jobs’ Apple Park in California) and the downright ugly (such as Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago in Florida ...
