Africa has ambitious plans to build a 8,000 km long wall of vegetation across the the Sahara desert. It's hoped that the 15 km (9.3 mile) wide wall will prevent further desertification of the Sahel, a region home to over 135 million people. This video discusses the wall’s inception, progress to date, and chances of success. We also briefly discuss similar desert push-back schemes.

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References

[1]    • How Africa’s Great Green Wall Will Ma...  
[2] https://earth.org/data_visualization/....
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_wall
[4] U. Helldén and C. Tottrup, “Regional desertification: A global synthesis,” Glob. Planet. Change, vol. 64, no. 3–4, pp. 169–176, 2008, doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2008.10.006.
[5]    • Why is Africa building a Great Green ...  
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[9]    • Africa's Great Green Wall: Stopping t...  
[10] https://www.theguardian.com/environme...
[11] https://www.statista.com/chart/26980/...
[12]    • How Africa’s Great Green Wall Will Ma...  
[13] https://education.nationalgeographic....
[14]    • Sustainable Farming Can Save The Climate  
[15] https://www.un.org/africarenewal/sahel
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Music from YouTube Studio

Touch - Patrick Patrikios
A Flute's Mourning - Aakash Gandhi
Away - Patrick Patrikios

Chapters:

00:00 - Introduction
00:24 - What Kind Of Wall?
02:04 - Current Progress
04:07 - How Does This Affect You?
04:39 - The Benefits
05:26 - How Can You Help?
05:59 - Outro

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