Alexandru Ionescu's vineyard in Grojdibodu, Romania. He got nothing out of it this year.
A map from The National Strategy for Controlling Desertification, 2008.
Above: Potelu Lake in 1927. Below: The area now. Maps via Jiu Pool Administration.
Dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu's visit to the irrigation site in Padova-Corabia in 1974. Photo via the Online Photo Collection of Romanian Communism.
The wind, nicknamed "Bankrupt" because it brings drought, unearths an electricity pylon.
Alexandru Ionescu says the land is becoming more and more sandy.
The sandy reality of Oltenia.
The state of the VICE car, after a trip through Oltenia.
Foresting has been in the Popescu family since 1896.
The now-fertile land where the owner associations planted trees, versus those who didn't join the movement.
The trees planted by Dan Popescu and other locals – a drop in the ocean of desert.

