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The Great Green Wall is designed to be a band of trees the length of the Sahel. We look at how the project is faring in Burkino Faso
In 2007, the African Union announced a hugely ambitious project – to plant the Great Green Wall, a band of trees that would stretch the length of the Sahel
FARMKENYA INITIATIVE Smart Harvest By Thomson Reuters Foundation | January 23rd 2021 at 11:05:00 GMT +0300 Abbas Athman in his butterfly farm bordering Arabuko-Sokoke forest in Kilifi. [Caroline Chebet] Growing up in a village in Burkina Faso, Georges Bazongo remembers his parents and neighbours cutting down trees each year to expand their farmland so they could “grow enough food for our families to eat”. He also noticed some trees becoming drier in the drought-prone region, an indication too that the soil was deteriorating as heavy rains washed away its fertile layer. Some of his relat...
Growing up in a village in Burkina Faso, Georges Bazongo remembers his parents and neighbors cutting down trees each year to expand their farmland so they could “grow enough food for our families.” He also noticed some trees becoming drier in the drought-prone region, an indication that the soil was deteriorating as heavy rains washed away its fertile layer. Some of his relatives moved to Ivory Coast in search of a better life, 48-year-old Bazongo said. Things started improving a decade ago when the government and environmental groups helped villagers understand the risks of their degraded...