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Africa's Great Green Wall initiative struggles to halt desertification
DW (English)
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6/24/2024
Billions of dollars have been poured into the African Green Wall project designed to stop land degradation and desertification. But the arid truth is that only 30% of targets have been met.
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Africa's Great Green Wall.
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It is supposed to be a beacon of hope, standing as the largest living structure on our planet,
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spanning 8,000 kilometers across Africa.
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It holds the promise of a new era, one of sustainability and economic growth.
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The idea?
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To stop the spread of the desert, restore 100 million hectares of infertile land, bind
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250 million tons of carbon and create 10 million green jobs by 2030.
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However, Africa's Great Green Wall is not without its challenges.
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It is running dry on crucial resources, money, engagement and time.
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Welcome to the flip side.
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Seventeen years since its implementation in 2007, only 30% of the project has been completed.
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The project was estimated to require at least $33 billion to achieve its 2030 target.
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International donors pledged some $19 billion in 2021, but by 2023 only $2.5 billion had
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materialized.
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Was Africa's Great Green Wall an expensive pipe dream?
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And should it be carried on at all?
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We have a missing link, which is the dialogue with civil society organizations.
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I think they are the labor force in the implementation of the Green Green Wall.
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They need means, they need to be supported, they need also national policies that encourage
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them, that enable them to do what they have to do.
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Yet, it's not all bleak.
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Considerable strides have been made with almost 18 million hectares of degraded land restored
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so far.
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However, progress is undeniably slow, the results are now rather frustrating and the
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spending exorbitantly high.
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Should the project be continued or is it time to look for new solutions?
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This is not acceptable at all.
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We are too slow and in between, in the meantime, land is degrading more and more.
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People are suffering, water, water stress, drought is occurring in these areas.
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So what does it take to keep the dream of Africa's Great Green Wall?
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Every African, every African should take the Great Green Wall as a flagship program, as
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a program that everybody will be involved.
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Under which conditions is the project doomed?
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This initiative, if we combine it with politics, then we will bury it.
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It's beyond the politics.
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For the dream of Africa's Great Green Wall to survive, it is crucial to involve every
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African, regardless of their location or status in this project.
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A united approach from both the public and private sectors is essential.
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It is important to foster a common understanding that this Green Wall will eventually benefit
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each and every one.
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This collective effort is the only way that Africa's Great Green Wall will still be
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able to blossom.
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And that is the flip side.
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