The United Nations and its partners have launched a $78 million programme aimed at restoring degraded land and improving livelihoods for five million people across Africa’s Great Green Wall. The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is providing the funding, while the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) will implement eight of the programme’s 10 projects and coordinate delivery across the nine participating countries. According to UNEP, the $78 million GEF grant is expected to revitalise the Great Green Wall Initiative and support the restoration of more than 270,000 hectares of degraded land across nine...