Great Green Wall Nigeria

Nigeria
In Nigeria, the Great Green Wall Initiative is working to prevent or reverse the degradation of ecosystems while improving the living conditions of communities by enhancing the provision of ecosystem services. One of the key components of Nigeria’s Great Green Wall program is the establishment of a 1,359 km contiguous shelterbelt from Kebbi State in the northwest to Borno State in the northeast, which serves as a windbreak. Key results in Nigeria include:
• 7.6 million plants and seedlings produced
• 2,801 hectares of reforested land created
• 373 hectares of multipurpose gardens created
• 709 km of windbreaks
• 1,205 people trained in food and energy security as well as in biodiversity maintenance
• 1,396 jobs created