Africa's Great Green Wall project began as an ambitious plan to build a 15-kilometer-wide band of trees across the north of Africa. The African Union launched the project in 2007 with plans for the ...

Africa's 5,000-mile Great Green Wall is fighting desertification. Discover why this living barrier is about people, not just ...

In an arid valley near the village of Kourtimale in southern Djibouti, a tattered chain link fence marks the boundaries of what was once Abdi Guelleh's farm. Within it, there's not a speck of greenery ...

Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison visits Senegal to explore the movement of forest gardens contributing to Africa's Great Green Wall. He collaborates with Trees for the Future, an organization ...

Women install barricades to halt the shifting dunes that threaten to swamp the oasis outside their village of Kaou, Chad. The oasis feeds their only source of farmland, but oases in the region have ...