How Africa's Great Green Wall is Transforming Land, Lives & Creating Green Jobs | Land Talks Podcast

Описание: 🌱 Welcome to a new episode of Land Talks, the podcast by the G20 Global Land Initiative. In this episode, we’re joined by Gilles Amadou Ouedraogo, Program Management Officer at the UNCCD Global Mechanism, based in Bonn, Germany.

Gilles leads the Great Green Wall Accelerator, supporting the implementation, governance, and funding tracking of the Great Green Wall Initiative across the Sahel. Together, we explore how data, governance, and community leadership are essential to restoring degraded land and building sustainable livelihoods.

🎙️ In this episode, we discuss:
✅ Why governance and political leadership are critical to land restoration
✅ The role of local communities in sustaining ecosystem restoration
✅ How the Great Green Wall is creating green jobs, especially for women in rural communities
✅ Empowering cooperatives through sustainable value chains, including shea production
✅ The long-term vision of self-sustaining, healthy, and resilient communities

This conversation highlights how restoring land goes far beyond the environment — it transforms economies, strengthens communities, and secures a better future for generations to come.

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