Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Djibouti. Those are the countries. It will be drought-resistant species, mostly acacias. And this is a brilliant idea you have no idea oh my Christ
This will create so many jobs and regenerate so many communities and aaaaaahhhhhhh
it’s already happening, and already having positive effects. this is wonderful, why have i not heard of this before? i’m so happy!
Oh yes, acacia trees.
They fix nitrogen and improve soil quality.
And, to make things fun, the species they’re using practices “reverse leaf phenology.” The trees go dormant in the rainy season and then grow their leaves again in the dry season. This means you can plant crops under the trees, in that nitrogen-rich soil, and the trees don’t compete for light because they don’t have any leaves on.
And then in the dry season, you harvest the leaves and feed them to your cows.
Crops grown under acacia trees have better yield than those grown without them. Considerably better.
So, this isn’t just about stopping the advancement of the Sahara - it’s also about improving food security for the entire sub-Saharan belt and possibly reclaiming some of the desert as productive land.
Of course, before the “green revolution,” the farmers knew to plant acacia trees - it’s a traditional practice that they were convinced to abandon in favor of “more reliable” artificial fertilizers (that caused soil degradation, soil erosion, etc).
This is why you listen to the people who, you know, have lived with and on land for centuries.
الواقعة الشهيرة لمضايقة الجمهور لعبد الحليم في عيد شم النسيم في أبريل 1976 - عند غنائه قارئة الفنجان لأول مرة , حليم حتى قبل ما يبدأ غنائها على المسرح بدأت الصفافير و الهتافات بأزعاج و دوشة , طلب منهم الهدوء لأنها غنوة صعبة و كلماتها أصعب و لازم تـتسمع الأول , طبعا كلمات نزار قبانى و ألحان محمد الموجى اللى اخدت منه سنـتـيـن لـتلحينها , حليم قبل مـيـبـدأ كمان شكر الموسقيين اللى قاعدين وراه على مجهودهم لأخراج الأغنية ، أغلب الجمهور اسـتقـبلها باستـحسان ، إلا أن مجموعة منهم كانت تصدر الهتافات والصفير طول الوقت ، وليس في نهايات المقاطع كما هو معتاد ، عبد الحليم قلهم ” بس بقه ” و “ دى هيصا بقا “ ، و قام بالتصفير زيهم ، ده خلى الصحف المصرية تـنـتـقده بحده و تهاجمه بشراسة!! , حاول عبد الحليم في أكثر من لقاء توضيح موقفه - نقطة مهمة - حليم كان دايما معاه كرسى قريب عليه كوباية الميه و فيها المسكن و الأسبرين ف حفلاته الأخيرة على المسرح - قدرته على التحمل و التماسك كانت ضعفت و رغم كده كان مستمر- طبعا لم يكن الجميع يعرف ان دى حفلته الأخيرة
The Romani people who were the easiest
to record and exterminate were those who were the most integrated in
society. Like the Jews, these people existed on census records, military
rosters, and school files. The decimation of this Romani middle-class
meant that there were few strong voices who were in a position to speak
up about the Romani genocide after 1945.
There were no Sinti or Roma called to
testify at the Nuremberg trials. There were no Romani scholars, no
Romani lawyers, no civil servants. No one left to document the
atrocities committed against Romani people alongside the Jews – the only
two peoples specifically targeted by the Nazis’ Final Solution to ensure German racial purity.
Whereas census data for Jews can be
compared before and after the Holocaust, this is rarely the case for
Sinti and Roma, meaning the total loss of Romani life is extremely
difficult to piece together. Estimates vary somewhere between 500,000
and 1.5 million people. In 1939, around 30,000 people referred to as
‘Gypsies’ lived in what is now Germany and Austria. The total population
living in Greater Germany and its occupied territories is unknown,
though scholars Donald Kenrick and Grattan Puxon have provided a rough estimate of 942,000. Of the Sinti and Roma living in Germanic Central Europe, only 5,000 are thought to have survived.
