Projekt “den grønne mur” (the Great Green Wall, GGW, møder modstand selv om målet er at bekæmpe tørke og ørkenspredning, som er en stor belastning for hele regionen.
NAIROBI, 8 April 2011, (IRIN): Wally Menne, a member of Timberwatch, the African NGO focal point for the Global Forest Coalition, told IRIN the organization was sceptical.
“In our view it seems poorly conceived in terms of both ecological and socio-economic considerations. Its chances of being a success could be limited, and it may even cause more harm to the environment,” he said.
What is the GGW project?
It is green, controversial, 15 km wide, 7.775 km long, cuts across 11 African countries and is designed to reduce livestock deaths and boost food security for millions of people.
Nothing of it exists yet, but the Great Green Wall project, a pipe-dream for decades, was recently endorsed by a swathe of African states stretching from Senegal to Djibouti.
The GGW project, originally proposed by Burkina Faso’s Marxist leader Thomas Sankara in the 1980s, was later resurrected by former Nigerian President Olesegun Obasanjo in 2005 before receiving approval by the African Union in December 2006.
In June 2010, 11 countries involved signed a convention in Chad to further the development of the project, but the plan remained on standby until February when it was officially approved at an international summit in Bonn, Germany.
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