Great Green Wall: how to save Africa from desertification

What is at stake here is truly remarkable: to stop desertification by creating new forests, creating a long green corridor 15 kilometers wide and about 8,000 kilometers long that connects Africa from West to East, from Dakar to the Republic of Djibouti. Just think that over 228 million inhabitants live in this area over an area that covers 780 million hectares, more than double the surface area of India. Many of these desert areas could be saved if new trees, new forests, food forests and arable land were planted. An important repopulation, with the consequent creation of employment and, therefore, new income that could allow African communities to achieve food self-sufficiency and find new channels for the sale of products derived from the fruits: shea butter, the superfood moringa, but also baobab and neré.

Our social reforestation project in Burkina Faso

With the aim of creating a process of women’s empowerment capable of supporting the local community to make it self-sufficient, we are working on a social reforestation project that allows you to adopt species that are fundamental for the subsistence of villages.
The Baobab, the Karité, the Moringa, the Neré are all species that, in addition to fighting desertification, contribute to the training of Burkinabé women with respect to the care and processing of the fruits of these trees into finished products, for both food and cosmetic use. This “Project for the improvement of nutritional conditions of women and children in the health districts of Garango and Tenkodogo, Burkina Faso” (Cod. n. 11874) was born in collaboration with the Italian NGO Aes-Ccc and is funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation.