Stretching across 11 countries from Senegal to Djibouti, the Great Green Wall aims to grow an 8,000 km natural wonder of trees and vegetation, transforming millions of lives through sustainable. Gardening is my passion. I go beyond organic gardening and work with nature rather then against it.
Gardening doesn't have to be hard and I can help you too create a gardening system that works. In Episode 3 of the series, Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys with the UN World Food Programme to Africa's Great Green Wall in the Mongo region of Chad. A groundbreaking Virtual Reality (VR) film about Africa's Great Green Wall, and the people growing it.
Watch on YouTube. Malian musician Inna Modja journeys along Africa's Great Green Wall - an ambitious vision to grow an 8,000km 'wall' of trees stretching across the entire continent to fight back against climate change, conflict and mass migration. Development banks and states pledged a total of $14.32 billion over the next four years to build a "Great Green Wall" to help contain desertification in Africa's northern Sahel region.
But what. The Great Green Wall is an African-led project with an epic ambition: to grow an 8,000km line of plants and trees across the entire African continent. Its go.
The Great Green Wall: Documentary aims to raise awareness of this exciting initiative which has won 10 awards to date: An ambitious reforestation project which aims to plant a wall of trees 8,000km. The Great Green Wall initiative helped stop the dunes from swamping their oasis. Launched to much fanfare by the African Union in 2007, the Great Green Wall's concept was simple: planting a 'wall' of trees across the Sahel, the volatile region to the south of the Sahara, to stop desertification.
Just 8,000 years ago, the Sahara Desert was a lush green landscape of lakes, rivers and wetlands. So, how did it turn into the inhospitable environment we know today - and how can we stop it from growing any further? Cue Africa's Great Green Wall, one of the world's most ambitious ecosystem restoration projects. Read [].