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The Green Great Wall, an initiative launched in 2007 by the African Union, aims to restore the continent's degraded landscapes and transform millions of lives in the Sahel. Joint China-Africa programs on the environment, including in the above initiative, enable China to provide technology and e...
THE CASE OF CONFLICTS BETWEEN FARMERS AND HERDERS IN THE ARID ENVIRONMENTS OF THE SAHEL Traditional production systems in the Sahel are based on the integration of activities sharing and competing for renewable resources (water and soil fertil... ST Herrero - Desertification in the Mediterranean ...
Waterhouse has doubts about some proposals highlighted in the research she considers “top-down technocratic solutions.” The Great Green Wall, a multibillion-dollar initiative to plant trees to combat desertification in the Sahel region of Africa, is one example. The effort, launched in 2007, ...
An explosion in plant growth has been predicted by some climate models.For instance,in 2005 a team led by Reindert Haarsma of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute in De Bilt,the Netherlands,forecast significantly more future rainfall in the Sahel.The study in Geophysical Research Letters ...
The phenomenon known as desertification has received widespread attention recently, as witness the creation of the United Nations Conference on Desertification in Nairobi in 1977, mainly as a result of the impact of extended drought in the West African Sahel in the early 1970s. That drought caused...
David Alexander,The New Yorker, 28 June 2023 Even with increasing globaldesertificationdue to climate change on the horizon, though, research on how ecosystems will adapt is scant. — Joan Meiners,The Arizona Republic, 6 Oct. 2022 What will stem the expansion of local newsdesertificationis uncle...
the Great Green Wall initiative aims to restore the continent's degraded landscapes and transform millions of lives in the Sahel region. Considering China's experience in combating desertification, the Pan-African Great Green Wall signed a memorandum of understanding with the Xinjiang Institute of Ecol...
The Sahel has been degraded by human use, not natural desertification; the natural process has been the reverse. From The Daily Beast So why do we invariably connect higher temperatures with droughts and desertification? From The Daily Beast The presence of a nearby desert has no direct relations...