“We Have Taken Every Measure We Can Think of to Stop the Desert Moving Closer and Submerging Our Crops and Villages”

By Richard Chasey, posted on May 24th, 2009 in Agriculture, Climate

Originally Published by Truthout

Farmers end up as eco-refugees in a government relocation plan aimed at giving them a better life.

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