Monthly Archives: March 2020

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Land is the foundation of our societies. It allows economies to grow and prosper. Land provides more than 50% of the total value of all ecosystem services. This finite resource is under existential threat. Productive land…

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Revitalization of a traditional agricultural practice known as farmer managed natural regeneration is bringing new life to millions of acres of degraded land while boosting food, fuel, habitat and carbon storage. ENSIA WRITER Duncan GromkoLandscape finance…

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Starting in 1985, 20 years of regeneration transformed barren, degraded land in the African Burkina Faso village of Ranawa into a fertile farm. Image credit: Chris Reij (World Resources Institute, Washington, DC). Despite big headlines and…

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The Great Green Wall of the Sahara and the Sahel is Africa’s flagship initiative to combat the effects of desertification. Led by the African Union, the initiative brings together more than 20 countries.  Its aim is…

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By PRNigeria https://prnigeria.com/2019/12/21/naggw-rehabilitate-degraded-land/ The National Agency for the Great Green Wall (NAGGW) has set a target of rehabiliting about 22,000 square kilometres of degraded land across the country. The Agency, also reiterated its desire and avowed…

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The spatial evolution of the GGW path. The original (light green; adapted from Agence France-Presse) and updated (dark green) approximate paths for the 11 founding countries are illustrated. The updated path was simulated based on the…