ForrestGrump<p>WOW</p><p>„…,in 1999 the <a href="https://hessen.social/tags/Chinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Chinese</span></a> government took drastic emergency action with the launch of Grain to Green, a pilot project backed by World Bank funding, to <a href="https://hessen.social/tags/regreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>regreen</span></a> the plateau and reverse the damage done by overgrazing and <a href="https://hessen.social/tags/overcultivation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>overcultivation</span></a> 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”.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/14/how-china-led-way-water-soil-conservation" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/20</span><span class="invisible">25/mar/14/how-china-led-way-water-soil-conservation</span></a></p>