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Niger, 2013. The Great Green Wall Sahara and Sahel Initiative

23 February 2013, Tibiri, Niger - An oxcart transporting muddy soil away from a quarry where mud bricks are made on the banks of a natural spring.
The Great Green Wall Sahara and Sahel Initiative (GGWSSI): FAO and its partners see in the GGWSSI a great opportunity for reinforcing and upscaling successful sustainable land management practices and interventions at a landscape scale for the sustained provision of multiple ecosystem services such as:
-Sustainable forest management (including conservation, management and use of forests, and sustainable harvesting, processing and marketing of wood and non wood forest products);
-Forest landscape restoration using different techniques including tree planting and assisted natural regeneration when it is possible;
-Agroforestry and farmer-managed natural regeneration;
-Fighting sand encroachment through windbreak establishment and sand dune stabilization;
-Sustainable land and water management, including water harvesting techniques;
-Sustainable management and restoration of rangelands;
-Good agricultural practices; and
-Urban and peri-urban forestry and greening

02/23/2013

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