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„…,in 1999 the #Chinese government took drastic emergency action with the launch of Grain to Green, a pilot project backed by World Bank funding, to #regreen the plateau and reverse the damage done by overgrazing and #overcultivation of the once forested hillsides that would become what the bank described in 2004 as “the largest and most successful water and soil conservancy project in the world”.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/14/how-china-led-way-water-soil-conservation