Conflicts, Climate Change Threaten Sprouting of Africa's Great Green Wall...: Africa
Promoters of the Great Green Wall have called for strong political will in engendering peace and increasing investment in environmental preservation, which the project launched 16 years ago seeks to enhance.
According to a United Nations status report, the Great Green Wall needs to cover 8 million hectares of land a year at a cost of up to $4.3 billion if it is to meet the implementation deadline. Launched in 2007, the Great Green Wall is envisaged that the land restoration initiative will boost economic prosperity in the participating countries, create employment, reduce hunger and reduce conflict, which has been linked to a fight over access to and use of natural resources across the width of Africa.
"It is the competition for land, the politics of it is what we see, but the underlying causes are natural resources," said Tangem."People do not want to speak the truth, but many conflicts in Africa are basically in the drylands, which are the areas most vulnerable to climate change and where the GGWI is focusing on. So we have a challenge."
When the Great Green Wall Initiative started, there was skepticism that it was a 'white elephant', Tangem said, but now it was the project to support.
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