UN Plan to save Kenyan farmers from the desert has backfired
Monday, 7 August 2006 by Jacob Tomaw20 Years ago the UN Food and Agriculture Organization introduced the invasive “mathenge” plant, known by its scientific name of prosopis juliflora. Mathenge was supposed to stop the desert from growing. It did that, but the plant has poisonous thorns, the sweet seeds are rotting goats’ teeth, and there is nothing to stop their growth.
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