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Great Green Wall for Restoration & Peace

African-led restoration of degraded savannas, grasslands and farmlands across the Sahel, evolving from tree planting into a broader rural-development and landscape-restoration effort.

Problem

Grassland and savanna loss, Land degradation and soil erosion

Place

Sahel region of Africa, with the UN flagship profile focused particularly on Burkina Faso and Niger

Organisations

Pan-African Great Green Wall Agency

Method

Dryland landscape restoration

Review state

EXTERNALLY VETTED

What the sources establish

1. The Great Green Wall for Restoration & Peace is recognised by the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration as a World Restoration Flagship.

   externally reviewed · strong · external review — UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration / Ecosystem Restoration Hub — Great Green Wall for Restoration & Peace

   Limitation: UN/implementer-reported project information; not independently measured by 4PLANET.

   Limitation: World Restoration Flagship status is external review, not 4PLANET verification.

   Limitation: Area under restoration and other programme metrics are source-reported and are not silently converted into ecological outcome.

2. The UN profile reports 2,035,113 hectares under restoration and a 5,100,000 hectare restoration goal for 2030.

   source checked · source reported · reported not independently verified — UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration / Ecosystem Restoration Hub — Great Green Wall for Restoration & Peace

   Limitation: UN/implementer-reported project information; not independently measured by 4PLANET.

   Limitation: World Restoration Flagship status is external review, not 4PLANET verification.

   Limitation: Area under restoration and other programme metrics are source-reported and are not silently converted into ecological outcome.

What this record does not establish

4PLANET has not reviewed this project under its own method. No 4PLANET partnership, funding or verified ecological outcome is recorded.

Sources

• hub.decadeonrestoration.org

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