
Decoding
Africa’s Great Green Wall: a COP16 Priority against Desertification
To mark the opening of COP16 in Riyadh by the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, we look at the Great Green Wall (GGW), the flagship initiative by the African Union and supported by AFD. Led by eleven countries, this initiative aims to regreen 100 million hectares of land and improve living conditions in the Sahel by 2030. Sandra Rullière, Deputy Head of the Agriculture, Rural Development and Biodiversity Division at AFD, discusses the challenges and future for this key project.
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