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Oct 19, 2023 · 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.
The Great Green Wall is an African-led movement to grow an 8,000km natural wonder of the world across the entire width of Africa. It aims to restore degraded landscapes, provide food security, jobs, and resilience to climate change in the Sahel region.
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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 for 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 ...
Mar 17, 2021 · The Great Green Wall initiative aims to stop the spread of the Sahara Desert by restoring 100 million hectares of land across 11 countries.
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IFAD is a core partner in the Great Green Wall initiative. Through our programme of loans and grants, we coordinate our actions with other partners to scale up the GGW. We play a leading role in developing a joint regional support programme funded by the Green Climate Fund and the Global Environment Facility.
The Great Green Wall is a vision of a mosaic of sustainable land use practices across North Africa, the Sahel and the Horn. It aims to address climate change, food insecurity and poverty in more than 20 African countries with international support.
