#DesertSeries

From the Sahara to the Sahel, CCTV’s desert series continues in one of the most climate vulnerable regions in the world.
Lindy Mtongana meets villagers in Northern Senegal who are at the forefront of the battle against desertification.
Eleven African countries are moving ahead with an ambitious pan-African effort in the Sahel-Saharan region of the continent to protect arable land from the encroaching Sahara desert-by planting trees.
The original idea for the tree wall was first proposed by former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo in 2005 and the African Union took it up in 2007. The World Bank helped co-finance it and the UN has been a supporter.

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Great Africa

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That looks great. How do they get a sustainable water supply?

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This is great.

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Sounds like a success story

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You can see them here. 4:56 Under a tree which provides a canopy. These are the trees they should be planting. Why you ask? Because these are self fertilizing trees. They provide a huge amount of shade. An if you make them a canopy they will produce Water and rain in the area. Yes that is what they do. Instead they seem to be planting thin leaf trees.

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They must to plant trees to stop the desertification

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Population?