This Sunday, Documentary on Newstalk brings you a classic programme from our archives:
In ‘Africa’s Great Green Wall of Hope’ Newstalk Presenter and Producer Susan Cahill travels to Senegal in West Africa to see how changing climate patterns are impacting on local food production, health and social systems in the Sahel.
How has climate change impacted on the Sahel region of West Africa? According to the latest UN IPCC Report the problem is ‘severe, pervasive and irreversible’. But has the issue been exaggerated? How do changing climate patterns affect local populations in the Sahel?
In ‘Africa’s Great Green Wall of Hope’ Newstalk Presenter and Producer Susan Cahill travels to Senegal in West Africa to see how changing climate patterns – flash flooding and droughts are impacting on local food production, health and social systems in the Sahel. Susan meets with Farmers, Environmentalists, Economists, Politicians, Health Care Specialists and Human Rights Activists and asks how are they fighting the devastating affects of climate change? And are trees the solution? Susan travels to the visionary Great Green Wall of Africa – a Pan African 7,100 km long 15km wide wall of trees stretching from Dakar to Djibouti and critically assesses its potential to fight the devastating affects of climate change and variability.
‘Africa’s Great Green Wall of Hope’ asks: Can the Great Green Wall of Africa fight climate change and food poverty in the Sahel?
‘Africa’s Great Green Wall of Hope’ will be broadcast on Newstalk 106-108fm this weekend, Sunday 21st June at 7am, and Repeated at 11pm.
‘Africa’s Great Green Wall of Hope’ can also be listened to online at: www.newstalk.com
Podcast available at: www.newstalk.ie/documentaryonnewstalk.
