Greening The Desert Project - PRI Jordan - Permaculture …
Over the past 10 years, Greening The Desert demonstration site and education centre, located between the villages of Al Jawfa and Al Jawasreh in the Jordan River Valley, has exemplified the imperative impact of a permaculture integrated approach in an arid climate. Incorporating organic agricultural production, water and waste management, soil ...
Desert greening - Wikipedia
Desert greening is the process of afforestation or revegetation of deserts for ecological restoration (biodiversity), sustainable farming and forestry, but also for reclamation of natural water systems and other ecological systems that support life.
The controversial plan to regreen a desert | CNN
2024年9月8日 · Ties van der Hoeven’s ambitions are nothing if not grand. The Dutch engineer wants to transform a huge stretch of inhospitable desert into green, fertile land teeming with wildlife. His...
Africa’s ‘Great Green Wall’ could have far-reaching climate effects
2022年1月3日 · New climate simulations looking to both the region’s past and future suggest this greening could have a profound effect on the climate of northern Africa, and even beyond. By 2030, the project...
Desert Greening: Can You Turn Desert Into Forest? - Science ABC
2023年11月7日 · Desert greening means exactly what it sounds like—the process of turning deserts into lush forests. This isn’t only for deserts with vast never-ending seas of shifting sand dunes… semi-arid land is also included in desert greening.
Desert Greening: A Journey To Environmental Restoration
2024年3月14日 · Desert greening is the process of turning dry and semi-dry areas into fertile, productive land by planting trees, managing land sustainably, and preventing soil erosion. It aims to bring back biodiversity, stop soil from washing away, and help fight against desertification and climate change.
With CO2 Levels Rising, World’s Drylands Are Turning Green
2024年7月16日 · Despite warnings that climate change would create widespread desertification, many drylands are getting greener because of increased CO2 in the air — a trend that recent studies indicate will continue. But scientists warn this added vegetation may soak up scarce water supplies. By Fred Pearce • July 16, 2024.
Greening the Desert with Permaculture
2018年6月29日 · From water harvesting on contour to planting fast-growing nitrogen fixers for shade and organic matter production for soil building, to wind breaking and microclimate creation. Every strategy worked hand-in-hand to produce what we now call the Greening the Desert project.
10 Inspiring Desert Greening Projects: Transforming Arid …
2024年5月21日 · By restoring vegetation cover, desert greening helps mitigate climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and reducing soil erosion, which can lead to the loss of valuable topsoil. Moreover, greening deserts can have profound socio-economic impacts on local communities.
Desertification is destroying fertile land. Here’s how we ... - Freethink
2023年6月3日 · Desertification is destroying once-fertile land at an alarming rate, but desert greening techniques are making degraded soil bloom again. Desert greening is transforming dust and sand into farmable soil.
Can A Desert Turn Into A Forest? - WorldAtlas
2020年7月12日 · Desert greening does not only refer to the process of turning hot, sandy deserts green; it also deals with colder semi-arid deserts. By doing this, mankind can reclaim many of its natural water systems and support life.
Green Desert Platform - Sahara Forest Project
The Sahara Forest Project (SFP) is an ambitious initiative for greening the desert that offers benefits related to multiple Sustainable Development Goals.
From wastewater to oasis: Greening the desert - UNEP
Planting trees in drylands is tricky, but the Moroccan city of Ouarzazate (known as “the door to the desert”) has taken up the challenge – using wastewater.
The surprisingly simple technique that can turn deserts green
2022年7月23日 · Bunding, an ancient and low-tech building technique, is having a profound impact on degraded land in two disparate places. In Tanzania, farmers using bunds – barriers that, at their most basic...
What was agreed at COP16 to combat global desertification
6 天之前 · The session on this collaboration highlighted the 1t.org China initiative, which strengthened trilateral partnerships between Geneva, Riyadh and Beijing. China’s scientific greening achievements, alongside Saudi Arabia’s bold Saudi Green Initiative, offer complementary strategies to advance nature restoration on a global scale.
10-Year Timeline of the Greening the Desert Project - YouTube
2019年2月21日 · This is a timeline slideshow of the Greening The Desert Project, Jordan, a labor of love that began in 2009 and is now in its tenth year. The site, as you’ll see, was carved from barren rock and...
Charting a path for global action on land and drought | UN News
2024年12月14日 · The largest and most inclusive UN land conference wrapped up in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Saturday, charting a path for global action following two weeks of intense negotiations on how best to tackle land degradation, desertification and drought, which affects one quarter of the world.
Transforming the Desert: A Guide to Desert Greening in Saudi …
2024年3月6日 · Desert greening means making dry places green and useful. We do this by planting trees, taking care of the soil, and managing water better. The main aim is to bring back nature, stop deserts from spreading, and make homes for plants, animals, and people to …
What is Desert greening? - Earth.com
Desert greening is made up of any number of methods used to revitalize deserts. So far, only arid and semi-arid desert are meant when using this expression. The icy deserts and other types are considered to be unsuitable.
The Greening of China's Kubuqi Desert: What We Can Learn - TIME
2017年7月27日 · Life has a chance these days in Inner Mongolia’s Kubuqi Desert, around 18,600 sq km of golden sand dunes that plunge south in an arc from China’s Yellow River. Centuries of grazing had denuded...
Growing aridity poses threats to global land surface
6 天之前 · From 1960 to 2023, 27.9% of the global land surface became more arid, while 20.5% became less arid, resulting in a 5.9% increase in arid regions, linked to reduction of land’s carbon sink ...
How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change
2013年3月4日 · "Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert," begins Allan Savory in this quietly powerful talk. And terrifyingly, it's happening to about two-thirds of the world's...
Explainer: How China’s renewables rollout boosts its ‘war on sand’
2024年12月12日 · China’s effort to build large solar power “bases” in and around the desert is a major part of its current renewable plan. What is less known is that the initiative – which has expanded rapidly in the country’s arid north and northwest – is also a part of China’s campaign to combat desertification, an issue increasingly exacerbated by climate change.
Saudi Arabia bets on tech to make deserts bloom
2024年12月3日 · Recycled water could prove valuable to the largely desert country with extremely limited water resources. As part of its so-called Middle East Green Initiative, Saudi Arabia aims to eventually ...
How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change
Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert, begins Allan Savory in this quietly powerful talk. And terrifyingly, it's happening to about two-thirds of the world's grasslands, accelerating climate change and causing traditional grazing …
Inside Saudi Arabia’s plan to tame the desert and turn its capital …
2024年12月9日 · But it has now embarked on what could be its most ambitious project yet – taming the heat in Riyadh, its sprawling capital, by turning the desert green. The objectives are to bring down temperatures, which get close to 50 degrees in the summer, and slash the city’s air-conditioning bill by reversing course on decades of outdated urban planning.