This publication presents efforts by FAO and partners on mapping the intervention area of the Great Green Wall initiative and restoration opportunities based on data gathered through Collect Earth and in support of presenting FAO's effort at COP22 in Marrakech on 14 November 2016.

Drylands, which cover 41  percent of the earth’s land surface and are home to 2 billion people, are widely affected by desertification, biodiversity loss, poverty and food insecurity.Trees and forests are essential for tackling the challenges that confront drylands, and they are also a source and factor of resilience in the face of global change. Large areas of dryland forests and other wooded lands are...

FAO’s international journal on forestry Unasylva, issue 245, presents the main elements of the Global guidelines for the restoration of degraded forests and landscapes in drylands, capturing, evaluating and sharing knowledge gained in dryland restoration initiatives (page 37-43) and discusses the restoration model used for Great Green Wall activities in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger (page 44-51). Read Unasylva, issue 245....