Kwon’s project is part of an anti-desertification movement called afforestation – the planting of trees, shrubs and desert grass – to restore regions degraded by over cultivation by farmers ...

According to Yang Qingwen, director of the Minqin forestry bureau, things began to change in 2012 when the government started outsourcing its anti-desertification projects to local cooperatives — ...

The project will bring China's desertification prevention and control technologies, materials, and products to Africa, and conduct environmental adaptability assessments. It will also include ...

With a range of nearly 200m wide and 1.5km long, Phase I of ABB-Inner Mongolia Electric Power anti-desertification project is located under 110kV Shentu transmission line and 256# -263# high ...

Secondly, China has advanced other anti-desertification techniques ... nature in the Soviet Union and the Great Plains Shelterbelt Project in the United States failed after not delivering suitably ...

Since the 1950s and 1960s, China has launched large-scale desertification prevention and control and ecological control projects, including the Three-North Shelterbelt Forest Program (TSFP).

Larsson’s project proposed using bacillus pasteurii, a microorganism found in wetlands, in the desert to turn sand into sandstone. The anti-desertification scheme envisioned long walls of ...

A recent Saudi delegation’s visit to China marked a significant step toward deepening environmental cooperation between the ...

Switzerland ratified the UNCCD during the same year and spent SFr165.7 million ($127.6 million) on anti-desertification projects within the UN framework between 1997 and 2000. The Swiss ...

China is "using the sun to fight the sand" in the latest chapter of its ongoing battle against "desertification". An "audacious" project in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, will see the construction of 100 ...