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8 ways for communities across Africa to ‘rise up from drought’ and end desertification

17 June 2022
Village women grow trees in a nursery in Senegal as part of the Great Green Wall initiative.
Caption: Senegalese villagers working in a tree nursery forming part of the Great Green Wall.
Photo: ©FAO/Benedicte Kurzen/NOOR
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