{"id":5650,"date":"2023-05-29T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/how-cracks-emerged-in-africas-plan-to-plant-a-wall-of-trees-across-the-continent"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:31:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:31:48","slug":"how-cracks-emerged-in-africas-plan-to-plant-a-wall-of-trees-across-the-continent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/how-cracks-emerged-in-africas-plan-to-plant-a-wall-of-trees-across-the-continent\/","title":{"rendered":"How cracks emerged in Africa&#8217;s plan to plant a wall of trees across the continent"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/farmer_1685355137.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Emmanuel Siakilo smiles a lot. More than you\u2019d expect for someone who spends his time working on the impacts of biodiversity loss and climate change in his native Kenya. And certainly more than you\u2019d expect for someone who had to leave his home in Trans-Nzoia County, on Kenya\u2019s western border, because of flooding caused by the climate emergency. \u201cWhat can I say? I\u2019m an optimist,\u201d he says on video call from Nairobi, where he now lives.<br\/><br\/><\/strong>Siakilo knows firsthand how immediate these issues are. When he was a child, his region would flood perhaps twice in a year. \u201cThe houses could be submerged in water. \u2026 Crops and livestock would be swept away, and you\u2019d have to start from zero. No food, no farms, nothing to pay school fees with,\u201d he says.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emmanuel Siakilo smiles a lot. More than you\u2019d expect for someone who spends his time working on the impacts of biodiversity loss and climate change in his native Kenya. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-5650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":{"url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6805,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5650\/revisions\/6805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5650"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}