Explore the urgent issue of desertification in Africa's Sahel region and discover how the ambitious 'Great Green Wall' project is making a remarkable difference. Learn how drought, food insecurity, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Nearly half a century ago, China had an audacious ...

China’s massive tree-planting campaign, dubbed ‘The Great Green Wall,’ was designed to fight desertification and climate change, but new research shows it also reshaped the country’s water supply in ...

A recent study has examined the progress to realize Africa’s Great Green Wall initiative in Senegal, which is often hailed as the model for this continent-wide project. The study finds Senegal has ...

Annah Lake Zhu receives funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). Amadou Ndiaye works at Amadou Mahtar Mbow university. So far, more than US$20 billion has been pledged, including large sums of ...

After years of delays due to insufficient funding and prevailing conflicts, the Great Green Wall in the Sahel, aimed at preventing desertification, gained momentum with an accelerator program ...