Farmers in the Sahel are combating desertification with trees — but by cultivating them, not planting them:
Amidst his fields of millet and sorghum, Sawadogo is also growing trees. And the trees, he says, work wonders. The temperature here is very different than in town, Sawadogo says. The forest acts like a pump. The air [...]
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