[Poverty Alleviation Through a Lens] Poverty alleviation in the Kubuqi Desert seen through a photographer’s lens (3)

The Kubuqi Desert, previously void of vegetation and life, was called the “sea of death”. Today, Elion has cultivated more than 1,000 types of cold-resistant, drought-enduring and saline-tolerant strains of plant seeds. [Photo by George Steinmetz]