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by PASTRES
Posted on October 30, 2020November 13, 2020

Of Deserts and Decolonization: Dispelling Myths About Drylands

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In January 2021, French President Emmanuel Macron announced plans to spend over $14 billion on the Sahelian 'Great Green Wall'. A programme designed to plant trees and revive landscapes across 8,000 kms of land bordering the Sahara Desert.

Our series on climate change, biodiversity and livestock continues in the lead-up to the #COP26 summit!

In our most recent blogpost, Natasha Maru details the ways Indian Pastoralists in Kachchh utilize migration to overcome environmental uncertainty and rupture assumptions about closed systems and fixity. Local maldhari pastoralists rely on reciprocal relationships with farmers in Gujarat, who in turn provide grazing access to their fertile crop fields during the dry season. “This relationship helps to sustain nomadic pastoralism, the demise of which has been predicted year after year.”

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