Keeping Africa's Deserts at Bay

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

Desert Revival
Over the past decade and a half, Ethiopia has worked to regreen swaths of dry, barren terrain through the systematic restructuring of its landscape, including this site, near the capital city of Mek'ele in the northern Tigray region.

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