Countries in the Sahel region of Africa have made little progress on the "Great Green Wall," a 5,000-mile-long band of trees planned for the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. Even where countries ...

The scale of ambition is high. Indeed, how, and above all what is the rationale behind a programme aiming to re-green an 8000 kilometres long stretch from the Atlantic coast to the Red Sea? One that ...

Africa's Great Green Wall project began as an ambitious plan to build a 15-kilometer-wide band of trees across the north of Africa. The African Union launched the project in 2007 with plans for the ...

A semi-arid landscape surrounds the Sahel village of Ndiawagne Fall on one end of the Great Green Wall project, in Kebemer, Senegal, Nov. 5, 2021 (AP photo by Leo Correa). Click to share on Twitter ...

African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) President Dr Akinwumi A. Adesina has highlighted the importance of stopping desertification in Africa’s Sahel and turning the region green. Adesina spoke at a ...

Desertification made worse by climate change is outpacing a U.N.-backed project to protect millions of people in Africa’s Sahel region. Few climate adaption projects can match the sheer ambition — or ...

ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, May 23, 2022 (ENS) – “We all play a role in the common fight against climate change and land degradation, recognizing that a healthy and safe environment is vital to the future ...

Big ideas need to be simple. So how's this. The world can be saved by planting trees in Africa, and that's the gist of the Great Green Wall initiative. Put simply, the idea is plant a band of trees ...

Fatima Tirap, adviser to the president of Chad, came to Israel for the first time last March as part of an 11-country African delegation learning about agricultural technologies and especially ...

Mr. Roman is the founder and executive director of Dawning, a multimedia investigative reporting organization. Ms. Kelly is a lead evaluation officer at the World Bank. Mr. Andrews is the assistant ...