Spatial and temporal patterns and driving factors of carbon in green great wall project, Africa
Journal of Arid Environments, 232, p.105493.
2026Scientific 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.
Direct seeding and nursery plant transplanting

Socio-economic assessments in large-scale land restoration
Geospatial data on an open platform
Open source tools and open data policy

Spatial and temporal patterns and driving factors of carbon in green great wall project, Africa
Journal of Arid Environments, 232, p.105493.
2026Africa’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.
2025Growing 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
2024The 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)
2023Great green walls: hype, myth, and science
Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 48(1), pp.263-287
2023Potential impact of the pan-African Great Green Wall on Sahelian summer precipitation: A global modeling approach with MPAS
Earth Interactions, 27(1), p.220013
2023Economic efficiency and targeting of the African Great Green Wall
Nature Sustainability, 5(1), pp.17-25.
2022Environmental rehabilitation and the vulnerability of the poor: The case of the Great Green Wall
Land use policy, 111, p.105750
2021Demarcating the rainfed unproductive zones in the African Sahel and Great Green Wall regions
Land Degradation & Development, 32(3), pp.1400-1411.
2021Local involvement in the Great Green Wall of Africa: A systematic review of guidelines on how to involve local communities in nature conservation projects.
2020Biodiversity 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.
2018Attenuation 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.
2017Community participation at the heart of Africa’s Great Green Wall restoration model
Unasylva, 66(245), p.44.
2015The 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
2014