Years of low rainfall and poor agricultural practices, such as livestock overgrazing, have transformed the Sahel region of Africa into a semi-arid desert. The lack of fertile soil along the almost 8,000-kilometer stretch extending east-west across the breadth of the continent from Senegal on the Atlantic coast to Eritrea on the Red Sea coast, is making it increasingly hard for the residents, who depend on farming, to survive.
In 2007, to try to combat the increasing desertification of the area south of the Sahara, leaders from 11 African countries came up with the radical idea of planting a “Great Green Wall” of trees on the edge of the desert. Though the idea sounded good on paper, it was not easy to implement given the dry and rocky landscape. Also, many areas of the proposed “wall” had no residents, which meant there was no one to look after the saplings.
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