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By Mostafa Kamal Tolba

ISBN-10: 0408008776

ISBN-13: 9780408008778

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Whatever the solution, popular participation is one element essential to the success of any wasteland utilization programme. I cannot stress too often that outside financial support for projects is a futile exercise unless they have the potential to secure the enthusiasm and participation of local people. Overcultivation Degraded land is land en route to a wasteland. In effect it is wounded land - but we know it can be nursed back to health and full productivity. Our dilemma, and our challenge, is how to do this and at the same time not merely maintain agricultural productivity, but increase it to feed the near two billion extra people projected to be with us in the year 2000.

In some smaller African countries, annual planting rates would need to be increased up to 15 times over current rates. Reaching these tree-planting targets means that the authorities not only have to chart plans and mobilize necessary human and financial resources, but also have to make the right decisions about which trees to plant: fast growing trees are required, but to be really useful, trees should at the same time be nitrogen-fixers, have industrial uses, provide animal fodder and food, and be good for making charcoal.

There is a third factor. The authorities in the modern nation-state tend not to like nomads and those who live a semi-nomadic existence. They are difficult to tax, they tend to pay scant attention to political boundaries and, above all, their way of life seems anachronistic. The response nearly everywhere has been to try and settle them through the provision of boreholes, churches and shops. The result has been that around the new settlements some of this planet's most complete wastelands are now to be found.

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