“We need to change the rhetoric about the Sahel region, to reflect the fact that despite its harsh and dry environment. The greening and land restoration along this belt stretching 8,000 km across the continent is already underway. The total area the GGW programme encompasses remains limited, with only 4 million hectares out of a targeted 100 million, according to the study. But even taking this into account, land restoration interventions still represent a viable business proposition, the authors say. It puts rural communities at the heart of restoration and up scaling to meet the massive environmental and socio-economic needs.

Source: The North Africa Journal November 17, 2021 09:53 UTC