Roles and resources

	Actor	Main argument	Resource 2	Resource 3
1	UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)	Independent review of the GGW Accelerator	Building peace in the Sahel with the GGW (UNDP)	Expanding Africa’s GGW (FAO)
2	Panafrican Agency of the Great Green Wall (PAGGW) & the African Union	Decennal priority investment plan	Imperialism burns our forests & a continuance of Sahelian adaptation	The GGW Carbon Bank
3	National GGW Agencies (Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal…)	Warding off desertification & planting circular gardens	An interview with Sergeant Badji (ASERGMV)	China boosts Mauritanian green efforts & GGW Agency absolved
4	World Bank, AFD, IFAD & Green Climate Fund (GCF)	Scaling the GGW?	Unlocking opportunities for Sahelian communities	An interview with P-E Clos (IFAD)
5	SOS Sahel	When utopia becomes reality	Platform for partners lead by SOS Sahel	Baobab’s role in the GGW & tree entrepreneur in the Sahel
6	The Indigenous Peoples of Africa (IPACC)	Opposition building to GGW	New threats to Saharan biodiversity and peoples	The GGW is failing, but its legacy could be a success
7	Transparency International & CISLAC	Governance mapping and assessment	Examining governance effectiveness	Interviews with K. Boubacar (TI Niger) & Ch. Bassey (CISLAC)
8	Investigative reporters	The mirage of the GGW & GCF finances false solutions	Financial scandal at the GGW Agency & alleged tree plant fraud	Conflict, climate change threatens the GGW & can the GGW save the Sahel?
9	Institute of development studies	Taking root	Abandon the idea of GGWs & interview with M. Turner (Univ Wisconsin)	Carbon offsetting in arid lands won’t help
10	Environmental social scientists	Questioning the idea of acceleration	Dispelling myths about drylands	Desertification: narratives, winners and losers