Shelterbelts and green walls. Surviving cover and water cost matter more than seedlings in a press release.
Launched 1978; scheduled through 2050. Still planting and replanting. Status: ongoing, mixed results.
The world’s largest afforestation programme. Satellites see greener patches. Wells and poplar graveyards see the other half of the story.
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AU initiative 2007. Mosaic-restoration reframing in the 2010s. 2030 targets: 100 million hectares, 250 Mt CO₂, 10 million jobs. Status: partial, off the 2030 pace.
An 8,000-kilometre Sahel restoration idea. The “wall of trees” branding faded. The hectare maths, and the money, are still behind the 2030 slogan.
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Announced 2021 under Vision 2030. Target: 10 billion trees / about 40 million hectares rehabilitated. Official early-2026 claim: 1 million ha and 159 million trees. Status: ongoing. Separate history: 1980s-2010s fossil-groundwater wheat.
Vision 2030’s tree-and-land programme. Officials now claim the first million hectares. That is not the old wheat circles, and it is not yet ten billion trees.
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Phase I (P003608) launched October 1994, completed 2002. Phase II (P056216) approved May 1999, closed June 2005. Status: partial: the World Bank phases are closed; the plateau was not “finished.”
World Bank-supported watershed work in China’s Loess Plateau (1990s-2000s): terraces, vegetation, grazing rules: erosion control and livelihoods, not a second “green wall” slogan.
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UNCC Claim 5000304 award; Community Action Plan submitted 2013. Watershed works and grazing rules through the 2010s-2020s. Status: partial: award-funded programme, not a finished green wall.
Gulf War environmental compensation paid for dryland repair in Jordan’s Badia. Contour furrows, ponds, native fodder shrubs, and resting pastures: community grazing rules, not a belt of trees across Asia.
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