Behind the rhetoric what is really being done to combat desertification?

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/behind-the-rhetoric-what-is-really-being-done-to-combat-desertification-8660978.html



Like most people living along the Sahel – the drylands between Africa’s tropical savannahs and the Sahara Desert – Mustafa Ba is all too familiar with the effects of desertification.

Thanks to a combination of overgrazing and deforestation, he has watched the countryside around his Senegalese village, Mboula, turn into a dusty, unproductive wasteland.

“Trees provide us with many benefits,” explains Mustafa, as we sit on a mat in the centre of his village. “They are good for the soil and important for food security.”

But in impoverished regions of rural Africa, selling firewood is a source of quick cash and many trees along the Sahel have been felled. Communities have paid a high price for such enterprise; with no trees to protect the land, vast swathes of the Sahel have succumbed to desertification.

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1. Drone strikes?

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2. Labor saving device for digging a hole for a tree? Nt

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3. I was thinking more population control .

But trees are good