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| Name | How Africa’s Great Green Wall Will Make the Sahel Green Again |
| Video Uploader | Video From Global Landscapes Forum - GLF |
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| Video Discription | Africa is building a Great Green Wall across the Sahel to hold back the advancing Sahara Desert. Will it succeed? Just 8,000 years ago, the Sahara was a lush green landscape of lakes, rivers and wetlands. So, how did it turn into the inhospitable environment we know today – and how can we stop it from growing any further? Desertification is a major issue that affects drylands across the planet, including large parts of Africa, where it threatens food security and the livelihoods of millions of people. But local communities are taking control of their own fate by spearheading a massive landscape restoration project that aims to restore 100 million hectares of degraded land in the Sahel by 2030: the Great Green Wall Initiative. Read more: https://news.globallandscapesforum.org/40521/here-stands-the-great-green-wall/ 0:00 Intro 0:42 How the Sahara became a desert 2:02 Desertification in the Sahel 4:16 Building the Great Green Wall 5:29 What does the Great Green Wall look like? 7:11 How much of the Great Green Wall has been built? 8:47 Outro Landscape TV is the digital news channel of the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF), the world’s largest knowledge-led platform on integrated land use, dedicated to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Climate Agreement. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/GlobalLandscapesForum?sub_confirmation=1 Landscape News: https://news.globallandscapesforum.org/ Global Landscapes Forum: https://www.globallandscapesforum.org/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/globallandscapesforum/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GlobalLandscapesForum/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/GlobalLF -- References: https://phys.org/news/2019-01-sahara-swung-lush-conditions-years.html https://www.popsci.com/sahara-desert-drought-humans/ https://www2.atmos.umd.edu/~nigam/JCLIM.African.Sahara.Desert.Expansion.published.29March2018.pdf https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/sahel-drought/ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2012/6/22/analysis-understanding-the-sahel-drought https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/01/all-the-warning-signs-are-showing-in-the-sahel-we-must-act-now/ https://www.unrefugees.org/news/sahel-crisis-explained/ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-51061229 https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/nigeria/2019-01-23/deadliest-conflict-youve-never-heard https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/27/record-29-million-in-need-of-humanitarian-assistance-in-sahel-un https://www.ifpri.org/publication/re-greening-sahel-farmer-led-innovation-burkina-faso-and-niger https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/regreening-the-sahel-a-quiet-agroecological-evolution-621091/ https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/africa/africa-s-great-green-wall-of-trees-struggles-to-take-root-1.4227810 https://www.dw.com/en/what-happened-to-africas-ambitious-green-belt-project/a-53004690 Image credits: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cifor/albums/72157691436636521 https://www.flickr.com/photos/cifor/albums/72157626455372721 https://www.flickr.com/photos/cifor/albums/72157718928925071/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/cifor/albums/72157719048715867 https://www.flickr.com/photos/cifor/albums/72157626555995163/ #thinklandscape #desertification #restoration #sahel #sahara #africa |
| Category | Science & Technology |
| Tags | Great Green Wall | Africa Great Green Wall | desertification | drylands | land degradation | climate change | landscape restoration | ecosystem restoration | the great green wall | great green wall | great green wall africa | great green wall initiative |
