Land degradation and desertification remain critical environmental challenges in Nigeria, particularly in the northern region ...

Known as the Great Green Wall (GGW), the project aims to restore the Sahel and Horn of Africa in an African-led initiative. The cost of this new initiative sits at an eye-watering £34.9 billion a ...

The African Union’s Great Green Wall initiative was launched in 2007 and aimed to restore 100 million hectares of degraded land by 2030, sequester 250 million tonnes of carbon and create 10 ...

Minister of Environment, Balarabe Abbas Lawal, has reiterated Nigeria’s commitment to the Great Green Wall initiative, which aims to restore 100 million hectares of land by 2030. He gave the ...

A woman with fonio, a traditional grain grown in West Africa ... the monitoring initiatives underway make the GGW’s future look exciting, Ouédraogo says. “The Great Green Wall is going ...

Substantive funds for climate action are (meant to be) channelled through the Great Green Wall Initiative which tackles challenges of desertification, land degradation and climate change in the Sahel ...

South Africa's ambitious 'One Employee, One Tree' initiative launched by Deputy Minister Swarts aims to plant 10 million ...

An epic journey along Africa's Great Green Wall — an ambitious vision to grow a wall of trees stretching across the entire continent to fight against increasing drought, desertification and ...

The African Union's Great Green Wall initiative was launched in 2007 and ... pairing ecological restoration with economic incentives, to Africa, according to Lei. In Mauritania, where sand dunes ...

About two decades ago, African nations launched an audacious plan: a 7,700km “Great Green Wall” to hold back the Sahara Desert’s southward march. Yet years passed and progress was stalled ...