Temperature is rising, rainfall is dwindling and poverty is grinding, writes Conor Sweeney�in Sika, Burkina Faso LAZING AROUND in the shade and sheltering from the 40-degree heat, domestic animals watch as their droppings are converted into compost by toiling west African villagers. It all seems part of a hopeless task, as men and women strain to pound dried dung and plant stalks into fertiliser to be spread across the arid land. The landscape should more accurately be described as desert in the...
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