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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Friends<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Willis Eschenbach (who worked in three Sahelian countries) writes about the desert, trees and goats the kill them in an article titled ‘To Sahel and Back’. He calls for the same thing Dr St Barbe Baker (founder of Men of the Trees) did: plant more trees around the edges of a desert and you can beat it back. Baker didn’t say anything about killing the goats…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regards<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Crispin<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>++++++++<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.6pt;background:white'><b><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/12/13/to-sahel-and-back/" title="Permalink to To Sahel And Back"><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>To Sahel And Back</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;line-height:18.0pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>“…I came away with the conviction that if every day, every person in the Sahel planted one fruit tree and killed one goat, in about twenty years it would be worth visiting…”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/12/13/to-sahel-and-back/#more-52958">http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/12/13/to-sahel-and-back/#more-52958</a> <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>