Greening the fringes

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is spending US$50 million on a new phase of the Desert Margins Programme. The programme will marry indigenous knowledge with modern land management techniques to find new ways of protecting the environment in areas such as Matabeleland in Zimbabwe and the Sudano-Sahelian zone of Senegal. Seven other countries are covered in the programme: Botswana, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mali, Namibia, Niger and South Africa. UNEP, November 2002The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is spending US$ 50 million on a new phase of the Desert Margins Programme. The programme will marry indigenous knowledge with modern land management techniques to find new ways of protecting the..