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title: "Great Green Wall Initiative: Sahel Land Restoration"
description: "The Great Green Wall Initiative aims to restore 100 million hectares across the Sahel by 2030, addressing desertification and benefiting local communities."
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Model Diplomat Research Team · Last reviewed June 22, 2026

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- The Great Green Wall is a pan-African initiative launched by the African Union in 2007 to restore degraded land across the Sahel and combat desertification.
- Is the Great Green Wall actually a continuous wall of trees?
- Which body coordinates the Great Green Wall Initiative?
- How does the Great Green Wall differ from China's Green Great Wall?
- Why has the Great Green Wall fallen short of its targets?

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At the One Planet Summit in Paris in January 2021, donors pledged roughly US$14 billion through the Great Green Wall Accelerator to speed land restoration across the Sahel toward the 2030 target.

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