Sltldr: “They’re just throwing away money, planting trees in the desert for them to die.”

The Great Green Wall is a top down, big government intervention that has little to no local buy-in and isn’t sustainable without continued big government funding.

Not surprisingly, the funding has mostly dried up, and so has the land.

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    This is Africa’s green wall.

    Eighteen years later, vast amounts of money have been spent, yet most of the planned Wall remains no more green than Abdi Guelleh’s barren field. What began as one of the world’s most ambitious ecological undertakings has in many ways devolved into a cautionary tale of poorly planned projects, lacking in local participation and entangled in a labyrinth of opaque financing.