23 February 2013, Tibiri, Niger - A mother and child walking outside the village of Tibiri where garbage is thrown.
The Great Green Wall Sahara and Sahel Initiative (GGWSSI): FAO and its partners see in the GGWSSI a great opportunity for reinforcing and upscaling successful sustainable land management practices and interventions at a landscape scale for the sustained provision of multiple ecosystem services such as: -Sustainable forest management (including conservation, management and use of forests, and sustainable harvesting, processing and marketing of wood and non wood forest products); -Forest landscape restoration using different techniques including tree planting and assisted natural regeneration when it is possible; -Agroforestry and farmer-managed natural regeneration; -Fighting sand encroachment through windbreak establishment and sand dune stabilization; -Sustainable land and water management, including water harvesting techniques; -Sustainable management and restoration of rangelands; -Good agricultural practices; and -Urban and peri-urban forestry and greening