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Listen to Irrigation Brings Harvests Back to Cape Verde
by Jon Hamilton

Morning Edition, July 16, 2007 · Climate change is expected to make the dry places on Earth even drier. That's bad news for countries like Cape Verde, a cluster of islands off the coast of West Africa that averages less than three inches of rain a year.
Droughts here have killed tens of thousands of Cape Verdeans and forced many more to emigrate. But the islanders who remain have begun to adapt using a range of technologies to grow food in an increasingly arid land.
Dust and Heat
Cape Verde offers two climates: dry and parched. The island of Sal is in the parched category. From the air it looks like a flattened sand dune, but from the ground, it's a moonscape.
"There is no rain," Emilio Lobo says. "Only dust and heat." read more


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