I continually read on the news how farms in the midwest are losing the battle to drought and other disasters. The primary goal of this project is to prove that farming can be done in a profitable way within any climate conditions.
How to Recover Desert Land for Farming
- Create Berms to grow desert dwelling trees.
- Create swells in between the berms to catch rain water or water pumped in to increase the bio diversity.
- Once you have grass growing use cattle cycled through for managed grazing.
- Combined with https://www.groasis.com/en for an interesting, low-tech solution that is being used to counteract desertification.
The video that covers land management and grazing by Allan Savory
Option 1
Using managed grazing and proper water management we start at the edge of the desert planting grasses and trees, slowly reclaiming land lost.
Option 2
Build greenhouses in the deserts near water sources. Using water sourced, evaporation and condensation expand the greenhouses into the local environments reclaiming desert lands and cooling the local environment inviting rains. Most all deserts have some moisture in the air already. As the plants start to grow the environment will cool. With proper management capturing all water and using it properly it would grow exponentially in a few years.
Option 3
We divert 15% of fresh water that is now flowing into the oceans out into the deserts. We offer very cheap land and homes to those willing to move there and work hard to reclaim lands for farming that are now unusable. Similar projects are being implemented around the world SEE BELOW, why not the USA?
It would be Terra-forming the Earth to save our environment. We could use some of the same viable planning NASA has already researched for Terra-forming Mars to make this easy and doable.
Terra Forming Mars – Mars is not possible but the Earth is for now.
BUT we have to begin now.
More than 30 percent of North America is comprised of arid or semi-arid lands, with about 40 percent of the continental United States at risk for desertification [source: U.N.]. Cities and urban areas cover 3% of the land.