The Aerially Delivered Re-forestation and Erosion Control System is a proposal designed to counter and reverse desertification in any arid area but in particular the Gobi Desert and other deserts in central China. The rapidly- growing Chinese deserts are having an extremely serious effect on world food production and the environment, due to increasing agricultural land loss from overgrazing and water shortages. This phenomenon, along with China's growing appetite for red meat is causing it to import its food from other countries, such as the Amazon rain forest, to grow soya as cattle feed, putting pressure on food resources and environment world wide. China is planning several mega river diversion schemes from the South to the arid North, but these are merely Robbing Peter to pay Paul no fresh water is created. The ADRECS proposal envisages similar levels of pumping but creates new fresh water

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