How to stop desertification.

African BusinessNbr. 2009, January 2009

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LETTER FROM EAST AFRICA

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How to stop desertification.

Perhaps the greatest pan-African environmental challenge, and one with enormous political and economic implications, is how to arrest and reverse the southward advance of the Sahara desert. A few projects are trying to do just that.

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There is room for debate as to the speed at which the Sahara desert is expanding - from the conservative 600m a year, to the extravagant claim on Wikipedia that it is more like 40km a year. But there is...

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