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Deserts Eat Up China's Usable Land

In arid provinces, farms and families feel pinch of policy gone awry

By Heather McPherson,  Newser User

Posted Aug 16, 2007 5:03 PM CDT

(Newser) – With China's deserts spreading another 950 square miles each year, the government is evicting families and replanting farms to stem the tide, the Christian Science Monitor reports from Gansu province. With 20% of the world's population but 7% of its arable land, China's decades-old problem...   Read full story »

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