The Great Green Wall of Africa

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Have any of you ever heard about “The Great Green Wall of Africa”?
Here in Scotland the problem of drought is not yet widespread.
Everywhere you look it's green... beautiful, apart from the rubbish we've mentioned many times before.

 

 

 

But not all countries in the world are so lucky, and that’s where the “The Great Green Wall of Africa” project comes into play.

 

 

The Great Green Wall, a pan-African initiative to combat desertification and biodiversity loss, is an ambitious project that aims to restore degraded land and create a green barrier across the Sahel region of Africa. Spanning 8,000 kilometers and involving over 11 countries, this initiative holds the potential to provide numerous environmental, social, and economic benefits for the region.
However, its success will depend on strong commitment and collaboration among African nations along with adequate funding and effective implementation strategies to overcome various challenges.

 

 

 

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Africa’s Sahel-Sahara region encompasses 11 countries across the north of Africa. It’s a region that experiences some of the worst immediate impacts of climate change, despite having the least to do with the cause. Ongoing drought and ‘desertification’ have battered the area as temperatures rise, impacting the local population where up to 82% relies on rain-fed agriculture.

To tackle the problem, a solution was proposed: the Great Green Wall Initiative. The idea is simple — to plant a gigantic ‘green front’ stretching from Dakar in the west to Djibouti in the east. The green front would act as a tree buffer to contain the expanding desert. However, like most ambitious biodiversity projects, it’s not been a straightforward road to success.

 

 

‘Desertification’ in northern Africa

 

Northern Africa is one of the warmest places on Earth. In fact, temperatures here are rising one and a half times faster than the average for the rest of the world. It’s home to the world’s largest hot desert, the Sahara, which covers almost 8% of the Earth’s land area — that’s approximately the size of China!

Long periods of severe drought have battered the Sahel region over the last century. It has resulted in devastating food and water shortages. Many crops in the area were lost, as well as between 50-70% of cattle. Desertification — a process of land degradation where fertile areas gradually transform into dry, desert-like landscapes — ravaged the Sahel, and dust from the Sahara blew across the continent making the region even more arid.

 

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