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• The Homelands Blog

  “Food for 9 Billion” reaching millions on air and online

  August 14, 2012

  We wanted to catch you up on the “Food for 9 Billion” project, which has been taking most of our attention lately. As loyal readers will know, Ff9B asks what has to happen for the …

• Fred de Sam Lazaro

  Food for 9 Billion

  Re-Greening the Sahel

  Fred de Sam Lazaro

  Food for 9 Billion

  Re-Greening the Sahel

  In Niger, farmers race to reclaim the desert and break the link between drought and famine.

  Perched on the edge of the Sahara Desert, Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world. As the desert moves southward, making the land ever less fertile, even a brief period of drought can lead to famine. Several efforts have sprung up in recent years to try to break the drought-famine link. One that has proven especially effective is Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration, or FMNR, a system developed in the 1980s by an enterprising farmer in Burkina Faso, Niger’s western neighbor.

  But for each step forward, population growth takes Niger two steps back.

  This video was produced by the Under-Told Stories Project and The Center for Investigative Reporting.

  Reporter: Fred de Sam Lazaro
  Producer and camera: Cassandra Herrman
  Editors: Cassandra Herrman and David Ritsher
  Consulting producer: Stephen Talbot
  Series producer: Cassandra Herrman
  Executive producer: Sharon Tiller

  Date

  July 12, 2012

  Other Contributor(s)

  Cassandra Herrman

  Outlets

  PBS NewsHour

  Tags

  Themes: Technology, Food, Environment

  Regions: Africa

  Media: Video

  Other Tags: desertification, Niger, Sahel, reforestation