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World Business Report: First broadcast 17/02/2021 15:32 GMT : The Great Green Wall

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The Great Green Wall

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Can the Great Green Wall in northern African save fragile communities?

International efforts are accelerating to save huge swathes of the Sahel - a belt of land running across Africa just below the Sahara - from becoming desert themselves. Millions of euros were pledged at a virtual summit last month, focused on creating what environmental activists have called a Great Green Wall. But why has a project that began 13 years ago been so slow to deliver? The BBC's Fergus Nicoll reports.  Italy's Prime Minister, Mario Draghi has been unveiling how his new government will tackle the coronavirus pandemic that's caused one of the worst economic crises in the Eurozone. Plus, Ford Europe says that by 2030, their new fleet with be all-electric; we hear from the CEO of Ford Europe, Stuart Rowley. And we hear the secrets behind success of the Canadian e-commerce company, Shopify in an interview with Ivan Mazour, the founding CEO of Ometria, which handles marketing for a lot of Shopify retailers. (Picture of a worker in Kaffrine Senegal by Xaume Olleros for Trees for the Future).

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