Over the past fifteen years, the Great Green Wall has become real and a real going concern. At this point all of the inhabitants have bought in and fully support what is going on. Cell phoners have made the necessary sharing of knowledge easy.
Many more things can be done in Africa on this scale. The Congo Chad canal leaps to mind in which an initial canal is connected and then expanded over decades using heavy equipment. This can be even extended to the Eastern part of Libya as well.
All this leads to the steady buildup of water resources that then allows expansion of the belt into the Sahara. That is possible with millions of folk working to make it all happen.
The Great Green Wall or Great Green Wall of the Sahara and the Sahel (French: Grande Muraille Verte pour le Sahara et le Sahel; Arabic: السور الأخضر العظي, romanized: as-Sūr al-ʾAkhḍar al-ʿIẓī) is a project led by the African Union, initially conceived as a way to combat desertification in the Sahel region and hold back expansion of the Sahara, by planting a wall of trees stretching across the entire Sahel. The modern green wall has since evolved into a program promoting water harvesting techniques, greenery protection and improving indigenous land use techniques, aimed at creating a mosaic of green and productive landscapes across North Africa.[1]
The project is a response to the combined effect of natural resources degradation and drought in rural areas. It seeks to help communities mitigate and adapt to climate change as well as improve food security. The population of the Sahel is expected to double by 2039, emphasizing the importance of maintaining food production and environmental protection in the area.[2]
The project encompasses the Saharan strip, north and south borders, including Saharan oases and enclaves.[citation needed]
The GGWSSI intends to strengthen existing mechanisms (such as Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Program, Environmental Program (CAADP) of New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), regional, sub-regional, and national action programmes to combat desertification) to improve their efficiency through synergy and coordination activities.[citation needed]
The Regional Harmonised Strategy emphasizes partnerships between stakeholders, integration into existing programmes, sharing of lessons learnt (especially through South-South cooperation and technology transfer), local participation and ownership of actions and developing more integrated and global planning.[citation needed]
The $8-billion project intends to restore 100 million hectares (250 million acres; 1 million km2) of degraded land by 2030, which would create 350,000 rural jobs and absorb 250 million tonnes (250 million long tons; 280 million short tons) of CO
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