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Tag: desertification

Notes from the floor of UNCCD COP15

Notes from the floor of the UNCCD COP15, 2022's largest event on land degradation.

 

Why stopping land degradation is “the only right path”

A Q&A with UNCCD’s Louise Baker on major new report on landscapes and how communities can reverse land degradation.

 

What is needed most to combat land degradation?

GLF Live with Andrea Meza Murillo

 

How are rangelands best managed?

GLF Live with Fiona Flintan, Patrick Augenstein and Ken Otieno

 
The Great Green Wall, which began in 2007, is envisioned as a band of vegetation running from Senegal to Djibouti. Courtesy of UNCCD

Newly seeded with $14 billion, Africa’s Great Green Wall to see quicker growth

Funds for the Sahel's Great Green Wall barrier against desertification renew hope that it will be completed by its 2030 goal.

 
The Great Green Wall aims to restore 100 million hectares of Sahelian landscapes. Courtesy of Makewaves

Africa’s Great Green Wall is officially 4% – and unofficially 18% – complete

New report says more funding is needed to complete the African initiative to restore 100 million hectares of degraded landscapes.

 
Children in Africa. Daniel Tiveau, CIFOR

Will the Great Green Wall’s architecture support its future?

Part three of a Landscape News series on the Great Green Wall focuses on the future of the restoration initiative that could change the landscape of Africa.

 

The restorative powers of the underground

Tony Rinaudo’s uses what lies beneath to turn drylands into forests

 

Stopping desertification with rocks and holes

Burkinabe farmer and Right Livelihood winner Yacouba Sawadogo

 

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