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GEF-funded program on resilient food security targets smallholder farmers in 12 African countries
Africa’s population is expected to double from 1.26 billion today to over two and half billion by 2050, little more than 30 years from now. At the same time, land degradation, loss of biodiversity and the effects of climate change pose increasing challenges to the continent’s agriculture sector, particularly smallholder farmers. If left unchecked, these challenges will threaten the food security of millions of people, particularly in the drylands.
Integrated approaches: accelerating women's contribution to food security, reducing deforestation, and sustainable cities
Today, the GEF joins the global community in celebrating International Women’s Day. It is an ideal time to reflect on GEF’s efforts to advance the role of women in environmental sectors worldwide. When the GEF adopted its Policy on Gender Mainstreaming in 2011, only a minority of projects considered gender issues. Now, just five years later, we are strengthening our efforts to address gender gaps across all of our programs and projects. Furthermore, we are working to deliver on positive synergies between improved environmental management and greater gender equality.
Helping Burkina Faso eliminate mercury use in the artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector
In 2016 the Global Environment Facility (GEF) approved the Global Opportunities for Long-term Development (GOLD) of the Artisanal Small-scale Gold Mining sector programme to help artisanal gold miners eliminate the use of mercury in gold mining, and reduce harmful risks to their health and the environment.
GEF achievements in Burkina Faso
Since its admission into the Global Environment Facility (GEF), Burkina Faso has received allocations amounting to about US$390 million for the implementation of environmental projects. These activities have covered the main focal areas of the GEF.
In the area of climate change, the 17 national and regional projects implemented have covered energy efficiency, modal transportation, enabling activities, strengthening of the resilience of ecosystems and populations, improvement of climate information, and early warning systems.
The “BRICKS” in the Great Green Wall
Sharing knowledge efficiently is critical to the success of programs dealing with big interventions across multiple countries. The Sahel and West Africa Program in Support of the Great Green Wall Initiative (SAWAP) is no exception and this is why the Global Environment Facility and the World Bank have partnered to launch the "BRICKS".
This GEF-funded regional project Building Resilience through Innovation, Communication and Knowledge Services (BRICKS), implemented by the World Bank, has three main objectives:
The Great Green Wall
In Africa, scientists are hard at work restoring land once rich with biodiversity and vegetation. Eleven countries in the Sahel-Sahara region—Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Chad, Niger, Nigeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, and Senegal—have joined to combat land degradation and restore native plant life to the landscape.
What the GEF CEO thinks about the Great Green Wall
Monique Barbut, we are hearing a lot about the Green Wall. Can you explain the concept to us?
The Green Wall is an initiative spearheaded by African Heads of State to combat soil degradation in a zone spanning Senegal to Djibouti. The wall is a visual concept symbolizing the collective work we all have to do in order to combat environmental degradation, in particular desertification and the impoverishment of populations.