How Niger restored 5 million hectares without planting a single tree
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM In 1983, an Australian agricultural adviser named Tony Rinaudo was working in the Sahel when he noticed something that didn’t fit the picture everyone had of the region. The land looked barren. But beneath the depleted soil, root systems were still alive. When farmers eased the pressure of overgrazing, green shoots came up. Rinaudo had found something that would eventually restore five million hectares (about 12.4 million acres) of savanna in Niger without a
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