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In Tanzania, a surge in sesame farming poses threat to natural forest.

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Mongabay (India)

Publication Date
2017-03-29

NANJIRINJI A, Tanzania – Patches of scorched earth line the road on the 100-mile drive from the town of Kilwa Masoko to Nanjirinji A village in southeastern Tanzania. A few big tree trunks, some still smoldering, stick out from the ground here and there in what’s known as Lindi region – the only clues that the barren-looking land was once a thriving forest.

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https://news.mongabay.com/2017/03/in-tanzania-a-surge-in-sesame-farming-poses-threat-to-natural-forest/