{"id":4680,"date":"2024-01-15T20:32:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T17:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/foresteconomics\/?p=4680"},"modified":"2024-01-16T07:38:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T04:38:26","slug":"if-the-people-remain-poor-the-climate-targets-will-be-good-for-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/foresteconomics\/if-the-people-remain-poor-the-climate-targets-will-be-good-for-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"If the people remain poor, the climate targets will be good for nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past few decades, the Sahel \u2013 the region immediately south of the Sahara Desert and the Horn of Africa \u2013 has changed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/foresteconomics\/questions-linger-for-climate-impacted-communities-post-cop28\/\">Droughts<\/a> have become more severe and food insecurity has gotten worse, with millions of people in the region becoming increasingly dependent on food aid. Lake Chad has shrunk by 90 percent over the past half-century, and the highlands of Ethiopia are increasingly turning into drylands.<\/p>\n<p>These changes are caused by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/foresteconomics\/do-climate-pledges-rely-too-much-on-tree-planting\/\">climate change<\/a>, population pressure, and unsustainable use of natural resources.<\/p>\n<p>As a\u00a0response to the challenges of desertification in the\u00a0Sahel,\u00a0the African Union launched the Africa-led Great Green Wall (<a href=\"https:\/\/thegreatgreenwall.org\/\">GGW<\/a>) initiative \u2013 an ambitious plan to stop the southward advance of the Sahara Desert \u2013 in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative initially focused on planting a \u2018wall\u2019 of trees spanning the girth of the continent from Senegal to Djibouti, which would be nearly 8000 kilometres long and 15 kilometres wide. 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