Keeping Africa's Deserts at Bay

Keeping Africa's Deserts at Bay
Dominic Nahr / Magnum for TIME

Be Fruitful and Multiply
Three nuns tend to a vegetable garden near the Mary Andinet Monastery in Tigray, where the land-regeneration process has been successful, in large part because farmers are not permitted to disturb the plant life that inhabits religious sites.

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