Did you know? China is planting a belt of trees to protect land from the expanding Gobi Desert. This Great Green Wall is projected to extend some 4,480 kilometers (2,800 miles), stretching from outer Beijing through Inner Mongolia (Nei Monggol). Unfortunately, recent pressures to expand food production appear to have slowed this tree planting initiative. For more information view the text and data in Chapter 8 of Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization.
Janet Larsen, EPI's director of research, spoke on the "Pushing for Better Agriculture Research and Policy" panel at the 2015 Food Tank Summit in partnership with the George Washington University. The two-day event featured more than 75 different speakers from the food and agriculture field.