Statue of Wadjet
Bronze figurine of the goddess Wadjet depicted with the head of a lioness, protectress of the king and tutelary deity of Lower Egypt. Wadjet is identified in this example by the dedicatory inscription on the rectangular base.
Late Period, 26th Dynasty, ca. 664-525 BC. Now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 50.37.14
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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
more info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Green_Wall
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.
^ The bold.
The green revolution doesn’t have shit to do with this. It largely skipped the entire continent of Africa.
Poor animal husbandry practices of repeatedly overgrazing the land does though. It goes further, women not having access to birth control to control their own fertility, so they have large families is an issue too. Those large families require large herds of animals to be raised and to graze. You don’t worry about what the animals are doing to future trees when you need to feed your family right now. It’s a cycle.
The Chinese government and other entities buying up all the good land is another issue. So is the fact that few farmers have rights to their land, nor little recourse if someone’s herds strip the land.
This is a wonderful project as I’ve mentioned previously but it takes place in a larger context of long-standing social issues. Herders vs farmers has long been in a tension in many parts of the world.
It’s really weird when people shit talk the green revolution. It literally saved millions of people from starving to death.
Nature’s wealth at once has its bounds and is easy to procure; but the wealth of vain fancies recedes to an infinite distance.
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