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Knowledge Management

Scientific foundations and methodologies for land restoration

The Knowledge Management section brings together the scientific foundations of the Great Green Wall’s restoration practices, providing research articles, technical manuals, operational guides, and methodological notes. This library offers a clear view of evidence-based approaches, techniques, and strategies used to restore degraded lands in the region. By making these methodologies transparent and accessible, the Method section strengthens capacities, improves technical consistency, and ensures restoration actions are based on the best available scientific knowledge.

Literature

Spatial and temporal patterns and driving factors of carbon in green great wall project, Africa

Journal of Arid Environments, 232, p.105493.

Barabara, J.J., Liu, Z., Tian, Z., Liu, H., Mohamedi, F.J., Wang, T., Wang, C. and Mao, X.

2026

Africa’s Great Green Mirage? Assessing the disconnect between global finance and local implementation in Africa’s Great Green Wall

Land Use Policy, 157, p.107670.

Zhu, A.L., Ndiaye, A., Dahm, R., Mauclaire, M. and Boas, I.

2025

Growing a World Wonder: The Great Green Wall and the History of Environmental Decline in the Sahel, 1450-2022

Environment and History, 30(2), pp.291-313

Cropper, J.

2024

The great Green Wall initiatives and opportunities for integration of dryland agroforestry to mitigate desertification

Agroforestry for Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture in Asia and Africa (pp. 175-206)

Sileshi, G.W., Dagar, J.C., Kuyah, S. and Datta, A.

2023

Great green walls: hype, myth, and science

Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 48(1), pp.263-287

Turner, M.D., Davis, D.K., Yeh, E.T., Hiernaux, P., Loizeaux, E.R., Fornof, E.M., Rice, A.M. and Suiter, A.K.

2023

Potential impact of the pan-African Great Green Wall on Sahelian summer precipitation: A global modeling approach with MPAS

Earth Interactions, 27(1), p.220013

Smiatek, G. and Kunstmann, H.

2023

Economic efficiency and targeting of the African Great Green Wall

Nature Sustainability, 5(1), pp.17-25.

Mirzabaev, A., Sacande, M., Motlagh, F., Shyrokaya, A. and Martucci, A.

2022

Environmental rehabilitation and the vulnerability of the poor: The case of the Great Green Wall

Land use policy, 111, p.105750

Turner, M.D., Carney, T., Lawler, L., Reynolds, J., Kelly, L., Teague, M.S. and Brottem, L.

2021

Demarcating the rainfed unproductive zones in the African Sahel and Great Green Wall regions

Land Degradation & Development, 32(3), pp.1400-1411.

Elagib, N.A., Khalifa, M., Babker, Z., Musa, A.A. and Fink, A.H.

2021

Local involvement in the Great Green Wall of Africa: A systematic review of guidelines on how to involve local communities in nature conservation projects.

Goossen, H.J.

2020

Biodiversity field trials to inform reforestation and natural resource management strategies along the African Great Green Wall in Senegal

New forests, 49(3), pp.341-362.

Wade, T.I., Ndiaye, O., Mauclaire, M., Mbaye, B., Sagna, M., Guissé, A. and Goffner, D.

2018

Attenuation of the effects of desertification through sustainable development of Great Green Wall in the Sahel of Africa

World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, 14(4), pp.279-289.

Gadzama, N.M.

2017

Community participation at the heart of Africa’s Great Green Wall restoration model

Unasylva, 66(245), p.44.

Sacande, M., Berrahmouni, N. and Hargreaves, S.

2015

The Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative: building resilient landscapes in African drylands

Genetic considerations in ecosystem restoration using native tree species, p.15

Berrahmouni, N., Tapsoba, F. and Berte, C.J.

2014
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