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How can we feed the world and keep the planet healthy? We start by making smallholder farming more sustainable
People are already consuming at a rate faster than the planet can replenish. Yet the world’s population is expected to grow from 7 billion to 9 billion by 2050. This will considerably increase demand for energy, transport, buildings and food.
The Great Green Wall
In Africa, scientists are hard at work restoring land once rich with biodiversity and vegetation. Eleven countries in the Sahel-Sahara region—Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Chad, Niger, Nigeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, and Senegal—have joined to combat land degradation and restore native plant life to the landscape.
Mali - Integrating Climate Resilience into the Agricultural Sector for Food Security in Rural Areas of Mali
Implementing Agency: FAO
LDCF Project Grant: 2,181,820 USD
The project aims to help farming communities prepare for increasing climate variability that is likely to have major impacts on vulnerable farming systems critical to agricultural production and food security in Mali. The project helps farmers to develop Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) strategies and tools using a two-pronged approach:
What the GEF CEO thinks about the Great Green Wall
Monique Barbut, we are hearing a lot about the Green Wall. Can you explain the concept to us?
The Green Wall is an initiative spearheaded by African Heads of State to combat soil degradation in a zone spanning Senegal to Djibouti. The wall is a visual concept symbolizing the collective work we all have to do in order to combat environmental degradation, in particular desertification and the impoverishment of populations.