{"id":10933,"date":"2020-09-08T08:52:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T05:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=10933"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:14","slug":"africas-great-green-wall-just-4-complete-halfway-through-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/09\/08\/africas-great-green-wall-just-4-complete-halfway-through-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa&#8217;s Great Green Wall Just 4% Complete Halfway Through Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The world\u2019s most ambitious reforestation project, the Great Green Wall of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/africa\">Africa<\/a>, has covered only 4% of its target area but is more than halfway towards its 2030 completion date, according to a status report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More funds, greater technical support and tighter oversight will be needed if the plan to plant 100m hectares of trees and other vegetation is to be realised, say the authors of the study, which was unveiled on Monday at a meeting of regional ministers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development-professionals-network\/2017\/jul\/19\/will-africas-great-green-wall-discourage-migration-to-europe\">Great Green Wall<\/a>\u00a0was conceived in 2007 by the African Union as a 7,000km (4,350-mile) cross-continental barrier stretching from Senegal to Djibouti that would hold back the deserts of the Sahara and Sahel. Its supporters said it would improve livelihoods in one of the world\u2019s poorest regions, capture carbon dioxide and reduce conflict, terrorism and migration. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2020\/sep\/07\/africa-great-green-wall-just-4-complete-over-halfway-through-schedule\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s most ambitious reforestation project, the Great Green Wall of&nbsp;Africa, has covered only 4% of its target area but is more than halfway towards its 2030 completion date, according&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}