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7 May 2025
Published by: Oxford University Press
There is a heightened concern among the media, United Nations (UN) agencies, and security experts about the rising number of localized...
24 April 2024
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
From a pan-African environmental movement to a mosaic of locally managed projects to its considerable funding from the international community, the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative (GGWI) is now seen as a ‘megaproject’. While this megaproject has been primarily studied along the lines of political ecology and critical development studies, both showing the material limits and effectiveness of the initiative, its impact on the ground remains important in that the Sahelian landscape is shaped by donor and development actors’ discourses and imaginaries.