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Turning the desert green

One man's plan to make the Sinai desert fertile.

The Sinai desert in Egypt is a dry, barren place where not much grows. But Ties van der Hoeven has come up with a scheme to turn it into a green and fertile land. It鈥檚 a plan on a huge scale which involves dredging a lake, restoring ecosystems, and even bringing back rain to the desert. He鈥檚 been inspired by a successful project to restore the Loess Plateau in China. But could it work in the Middle East?

Produced and presented by Richard Kenny.

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Tue 1 Jun 2021 21:06GMT

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