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Senegalese plant circular gardens in Green Wall defence against desert

Senegalese plant circular gardens in Green Wall defence against desert

CHRISTOPHER VAN DER PERRE and COOPER INVEEN EVERY night Moussa Kamara works at his bakery preparing hundreds of loaves but at sunrise, instead of going home to sleep, he now starts a second back-breaking job - hoeing the earth and tending newly sown seeds in a specially designed circular garden. Kamara, 47, believes the garden will prove even more important than the bakery in the future for feeding his extended family, including 25 children, and other residents of Boki Dawe, a Senegalese town near the border with Mauritania. He is part of a project that aims to create hundreds of…
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