How Africa's Great Green Wall is Solving an Ancient Conflict

Published at : 23 Dec 2025

In Episode 3 of the series, Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys with the UN World Food Programme to Africa's Great Green Wall in the Mongo region of Chad. He visits a project where land restoration is being used to address the age-old conflict between nomadic herders and settled farmers, and looks at the details of water harvesting and plant systems that are restoring food security and rehabilitating damaged lands.

EPISODE 1: Inside Africa's Food Forest Mega Project
https://youtu.be/xbBdIG--b58

EPISODE 2: How Refugees are Greening the Edge of the Sahara
https://youtu.be/jfiH9T-iR3E

WFP Resilience Building:
https://www.wfp.org/resilience-building

Coordinates of major sites visited (paste these into Google Earth):
Main site (Klimty): 12.41331° 18.93279°
Pastoral pond outside boundary of restoration site: 12.42561° 18.92808°
Site of fish ponds: 12.40954° 18.95742°
Another restoration site featured (Djoukoukouli): 12.28899° 18.82072°

Thanks to Evelyn Fey of the WFP media team for camera and drone videography

Special thanks to BOMBINO ( https://www.bombinomusic.com/ ) for use of music tracks.

Cain and Abel image Creative Commons attribution:
Jan van 't Hoff / Gospelimages.com

Oregon State University Online Permaculture Design Course:
https://workspace.oregonstate.edu/course/permaculture-design-certificate-online

Andrew Millison’s links:
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https://permaculturedesign.oregonstate.edu/

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