Thursday, February 13, 2025

Inside Africa's food forest mega-project.

I find this kind of "desert greening" project fascinating - seems like a great humanitarian investment that really involves local people in their future. 

2:28 "in the Sahel we find an age-old water harvesting structure called the "half moon." This simple structure has capacity to store this water [as it] soaks down into the ground." 

8:12 "this diverse perennial poly-culture here provides types of foods that can be harvested in the dry season...
8:44 the "Great Green Wall" is actually rebuilding the ecological matrix of a region"

11:21 "when you do this type of land treatment, your actually helping areas [further] downstream because [not only is] this water soaking in them you also get this [arid] wind protection, so for every hectare that you restore, you actually affect three times that amount of land."




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