The Africa Open DEAL and Africa’s Great Green Wall initiative is a first-of-its-kind collection of accurate, comprehensive, and harmonized African land use and land use change data. It provides a detailed panorama of land use and change across the entire continent and countries, captured through more than 300 000 sampling points taken from very high-resolution satellite imagery.

Info-poster on Action Against Desertification, presenting the activities in which the project is involved as well as the results obtained between 2014 and 2018. 

Action Against Desertification works with local communities in developing value chains of non-timber forest products to support economic growth, while at the same time promoting sustainable production, transformation and marketing of these products, contributing to natural resource management that helps combat desertification and land degradation.

Action Against Desertification supports Nigeria’s Great Green Wall interventions in rural communities in three dryland states - Sokoto, Jigawa and Bauchi – by upscaling restoration activities and promoting the sustainable management of landscapes and natural resources.

Action Against Desertification works on the restoration of over 1 500 hectares of arid and semi-arid land in Ethiopia's Amhara, Tigray and Afar regions. These activities are complementary to government-led action to combat land degradation and desertification, while contributing to the National Climate Resilient Green Economy Strategy and bolstering Ethiopia’s Bonn Challenge commitment.