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Loess Plateau Marvel!

1/6/2023

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To kick-start 2023, here's an old news piece that filled me with joy: Re-greening the Loess Plateau.
​In 1994, China began the largest redevelopment project in the world.
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The Loess Plateau is located in China’s Northwest (which takes its name from the dry powdery wind-blown soil). Centuries of overuse and overgrazing led to one of the highest erosion rates in the world and widespread poverty.


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A staggering combination of: innovation, education and financial support; a huge investment in labour; the switch to sustainable farming practices - lifted more than 2.5 million people, in four of China’s poorest provinces, out of poverty. 
Farmers’ incomes doubled, employment diversified... and a degraded environment the size of France was revitalised. 

PictureLoess Plateau before

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This is perhaps my favourite, inspirational example of what we can do with political will.
While away a happy 10 minutes + to see how it was done
here  and  here 

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Loess Plateau after
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Mads
1/11/2023 07:37:34 am

I love this!

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