Life in the Sahel, a semi-arid region of Africa stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, is at threat from persistent degradation of land as the increasing population inflicts ever-greater ...
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 continent.
Travel across Africa’s Sahel, where Muslims and Christians unite to fight desertification. Gulnaz Khan travels across Africa’s Sahel, where desertification threatens entire communities. Muslims and ...
Climate change is a huge problem, and it will require an equally large solution – multiple solutions, in fact. In Africa, one such idea involves planting a wall of trees, 8,000km long and 15km wide, ...
African nations are fighting climate change with an 8,000 kilometer long Great Green Wall meant to combat the desertification of the Sahel region, home to over 100 million people. Spanning the entire ...
Les débuts de la Grande muraille verte au Sénégal (2008). Seyllou Diallo / AFP Zone particulièrement vulnérable aux évolutions climatiques, l’Afrique subsaharienne est aujourd’hui confrontée à de ...