Burkhard Bilger on desertification.

The New Yorker: Out Loud | May 14, 2015
This week in the magazine, Burkhard Bilger travels to Africa and the Arabian Peninsula to see some of the techniques people are using to fight desertification. Here Blake Eskin talks with Bilger about his visit to the Sahel, and how farmers there are using agroforestry to grow crops and keep the Sahara at bay.This week in the magazine, Burkhard Bilger travels to Africa and the Arabian Peninsula to see some of the techniques people are using to fight desertification. Here Blake Eskin talks with Bilger about his visit to the Sahel, and how farmers there are using agroforestry to grow crops and keep the Sahara at bay.

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