In 2007, the African Union launched a programme called the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and Sahel to revert land degradation and desertification and help communities adapt to climate change. It’s not only about planting a monumental defense line...

Imagine a mantle of green landscape around the Sahara desert. Not a concrete of barbed wired wall to keep people inside or out. But woods and pastures and fields to grow food and generate income and a future for communities...

A massive-scale project proposed by the African Union, partly funded by the EU, will see a wall of trees erected at the edge of the Sahara, in an attempt to prevent the desert encroaching further. EURACTIV’s partner El País –...

DAKAR — The African Union is holding the first ever international conference on the Great Green Wall in Dakar this week. The goal is to map out a strategy to stop desertification in the Sahel-Sahara region, which experts say is...

A grand vision for a wall of vegetation reaching thousands of miles across Africa and slowing the spread of the Sahara Desert took a step closer to becoming a reality yesterday with the first international conference to discuss how to...