Liberia: As They Abandon Barren Land, Farmers Take Problems with Them

Dec 6, 2015 | Megan Rowling, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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Creeping deserts, loss of trees, barren soils and water shortages are pushing poor farmers off their land from Africa to Latin America, forcing people to seek new ways to survive, experts said. This migration, in turn, is putting growing ecological and financial pressure on the places they move to, whether neighbouring farmland or city slums, aid and environment officials told a gathering on the sidelines of U.N. climate talks in Paris.