La Grande muraille verte est une initiative africaine visant à lutter contre la dégradation des terres et ses conséquences au sud du Sahara. Lancée en 2007, l’initiative a connu une nouvelle impulsion en 2021 lors du One Planet Summit. La Grande muraille verte couvre 11 pays et poursuit des objectifs ambitieux d’ici 2030 : 100 millions d’hectares de terre dégradées à restaurer, 10 millions d’emplois à créer en zone rurale et 250 millions de tonnes de CO2 à séquestrer dans la végétation. Découvrez l’essentiel des actions de la Grande muraille verte à travers cette infographie.

Climate change is posing serious challenges to poverty eradication and economic development in Ethiopia. Ethiopia’s pastoral and agro-pastoral communities, as well as its smallholder farmers in the highlands, are particularly vulnerable to climate change. This exposure requires a concerted focus on adaptation and resilience building, as well as measures to reduce poverty.

Mali’s participation in the GGW initiative falls within the continued implementation of its National Plan for the Fight Against Desertification (PLNCD), adopted in October 1985. The Mali government created a Management Unit of the Great Green Wall (UGMV) in March 2016. The UGMV was hosted by the Forestry Department. The UGMV was later transformed into the National Agency of the Great Green Wall (ANGMV-Mali) by the government in 2019 (Traoré et al, 2021).

 Analysis of policies relevant to the Great Green Wall Initiative in Senegal.

The National Office of the Great Green Wall (NOGGW) was created in 2016 by Council of Ministers Decree No 36 and was activated in July 2021 in accordance with Ministerial Decree No 6, declared by the Minister of Agriculture and Forests. These actions were line with the recommendations of multiple evaluations that were carried out in which it was deemed necessary to strengthen the capacities of the institutional and organizational structures of the Great Green Wall (GGW) initiative and GGW national structures of the participating countries.

This work was carried out with support from the CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience, ClimBeR. We would like to thank the Belgium Federal Public Services (FPS) Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation and all funders who supported this research through their contributions to the CGIAR Trust Fund.