With funding we can turn an existential code red into a prosperous code green

Finance institutions and aid groups have begun changing their focus in Africa to smaller-scale systems that help to make farmers more independent.

The main enemy of Chad and its people is desertification, the effects of which are not limited to the destruction of traditional farmland.

The idea was simple: to counter the threat of creeping desertification in Africa through a Great Green Wall of trees spanning the continent.