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EuropeAid - Environmental protection in developing countries

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Subido el 9 de agosto de 2007 por EducaMadrid

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In the lead up to World Environment Day on June 5th, EuropeAid is releasing a news report profiling three different communities around the world where EU funding is helping to promote sustainable development and conservation in challenging conditions where poverty and the environment are closely linked. These initiatives – to combat desertification (Mali), to exploit natural resources without damaging the environment (Brazil) and to adapt to climate change (Sri Lanka) are all part of the EU’s commitment to the Rio Conventions of 1992 for international action on Biodiversity, Climate Change and Desertification.

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Sand, sand as far as the eye can see. This is Timbuktu in the north of Mali. Mysterious 00:00:00
Timbuktu is located in the Sahel, one of the most arid desert zones in the world. Following 00:00:16
the cycles of drought in these regions in recent decades, the desert continues to spread. 00:00:22
Sand invades agricultural land, nibbles away at roads, fills in watercourses, insinuates 00:00:27
itself into houses. It's a serious problem, and the battle seems almost lost before it 00:00:32
begins. However, Borema Kamara is the head of the local branch of PELCD, the Environmental 00:00:38
Programme to Combat Desertification. 00:00:45
The programme's objective is to fight desertification, which, since the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, 00:00:57
has become a global problem, as well as an international priority. So how do you concretely 00:01:09
combat the advance of the shifting sand? To stop its progress, you have to attack the 00:01:15
element that actually moves it, wind. This is the objective of the Dune Stabilisation 00:01:20
Project. It consists, in the short term, of making quadrants in the dunes with dry vegetation, 00:01:25
and in the longer term, of planting trees in the middle of them. This will slow down 00:01:30
the wind, stabilise the dunes, and so prevent the sand blowing onto agricultural land. 00:01:34
These measures have provided protection not only to hundreds of hectares of crops, but 00:01:55
also to the nearby river Niger. Elsewhere, in selected areas, eucalyptus forests have 00:02:06
been purposefully planted, to act as a windbreak and protect the crops. And as wood is the 00:02:13
main source of energy in these regions, the plantations serve a double purpose for the 00:02:18
locals. 00:02:22
The eucalyptus plantations also protect vegetable crops, as here in this large market garden 00:02:29
managed by the women. In arid regions, water is a rare and precious resource. The EU Mali 00:02:36
Programme finances the construction of wells and the purchase of motorised pumps. Thanks 00:02:43
to this support, vegetable growing has developed in the region. More and more local people 00:02:51
are becoming involved. They have well understood how they can benefit directly. 00:02:57
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9 de agosto de 2007 - 13:14
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