Keeping Africa's Deserts at Bay

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

Singin' in the Rain
Near the northern Ethiopian town of Wukro, a farmer holding an umbrella crosses his family's pepper fields — a stretch of green valley that benefits from natural water.

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