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  2. Great Plains Shelterbelt - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. Forest Service and Civilian Conservation Corps assisted. [7] "The Shelterbelt Program of 1935–1942 ... [was] later known as the Prairie States Forestry Project." [8] By 1942, 30,233 shelterbelts had been planted, which contained 220 million trees and covered 18,600 square miles (48,000 km 2). [2]

  3. Windbreak - Wikipedia

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    The Great Plains Shelterbelt was an American initiative to create shelterbelts on the prairies in the USA during the dustbowl of the 1930s.; The Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration in Indian Head, Saskatchewan, Canada subsidized seedlings to prairie farmers for almost 100 years to reduce soil erosion and increase quality of life on the prairies.

  4. Conservation Reserve Program - Wikipedia

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    The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is a cost-share and rental payment program of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Under the program, the government pays farmers to take certain agriculturally used croplands out of production and convert them to vegetative cover, such as cultivated or native bunchgrasses and grasslands, wildlife and pollinators food and shelter plantings ...

  5. Water positive - Wikipedia

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    Water positive is the concept of water conservation by a company, community or individual that actively contributes to the sustainable management and restoration of water resources. This involves implementing practices and technologies that reduce water consumption , improve water quality and enhance water availability .

  6. Great Green Wall (China) - Wikipedia

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    The Great Green Wall, officially known as the Three-North Shelter Forest Program (simplified Chinese: 三北防护林; traditional Chinese: 三北防護林; pinyin: Sānběi Fánghùlín), also known as the Three-North Shelterbelt Program, is a series of human-planted windbreaking forest strips (shelterbelts) in China, designed to hold back the expansion of the Gobi Desert, [1] and provide ...

  7. World Bank Projects Leave Trail of Misery Around Globe

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    The World Bank began financing the Kenya Forest Service’s Natural Resources Management Project in 2007. It promised to cover $68.5 million of the project’s $78 million budget in an effort to help the KFS “improve the livelihoods of communities participating in the co-management of water and forests.”

  8. Contour plowing - Wikipedia

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    The Soil Conservation Service worked with state governments and universities with established agriculture programs, such as the University of Nebraska, to promote the method to farmers. By 1938, the introduction of new agricultural techniques, such as contour plowing, had reduced soil loss by 65% despite the continuation of the drought.

  9. William J. DeLaney - Pay Pals - The Huffington Post

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    From September 2011 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when William J. DeLaney joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 16.3 percent return on your investment, compared to a 18.4 percent return from the S&P 500.