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The Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel within the context of Climate Change Michel Malagnoux French Scientific Committee on Desertification http://www.csf-desertification.eu/

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The Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel within the context of Climate Change

Michel Malagnoux

French Scientific Committee on Desertification

http://www.csf-desertification.eu/

Drylands of the World according to UNCCD and CBD definitions © UNEP/WCMC

Michel Malagnoux French Scientific Committee on Desertification

Sand dunes encroachment (Nouakchott, Mauritania)

Michel Malagnoux French Scientific Committee on Desertification

© Georg Gerster

Algerian Green Barrier near Hassi Bahbah (Djelfa, Algeria)

Michel Malagnoux French Scientific Committee on Desertification

© Georg Gerster © Yann Arthus-Bertrand

The Three North Shelter Belt Project of China

Michel Malagnoux French Scientific Committee on Desertification

© Georg Gerster © Yann Arthus-Bertrand (adapted from the map published by the Bureau in charge of the project)

The Three North Shelter Belt Project of China

Michel Malagnoux French Scientific Committee on Desertification

© Georg Gerster © Yann Arthus-Bertrand © Bureau in charge of the project

A Green Great Wall (President Deng Xiaoping’s calligraphy)

Michel Malagnoux French Scientific Committee on Desertification

© Georg Gerster © Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Michel Malagnoux French Scientific Committee on Desertification

© Georg Gerster © Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Desertification vulnerability in Africa, north of the Equator

© JRC/FAO

Michel Malagnoux French Scientific Committee on Desertification

© Georg Gerster © Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Location of the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel

© JRC/FAO

Michel Malagnoux French Scientific Committee on Desertification

© Georg Gerster © Yann Arthus-Bertrand Gaïkgoata, Burkina Faso: "Glacis" (degraded land with surface crust) reclaimed in 1997 by contour ploughing and planted with Acacia senegal (Picture taken after 6 rainy seasons).

© M. Malagnoux, 2003

Michel Malagnoux French Scientific Committee on Desertification

© Georg Gerster © Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“Plant a tree each time it is possible

and only when it is sustainable”

Michel Malagnoux French Scientific Committee on Desertification

© Georg Gerster © Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“The Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel is of utmost

importance in terms of international political mobilization”

“Its activities should be extended to all endangered areas to cope with climate change effects”

Thank you

For more information please visit: http://www.csf-desertification.eu/