Animals gather around a pump as women fill jerry cans with water to take to their homes some 15 km away.
Burkina Faso: The Man Who Stopped the Desert
A Burkinabe man has received global acclaim for trying to save his arid land from desertification by planting trees that have since grown into a 15-hectare forest.
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Burkina Faso: The Man Who Stopped the Desert
IPS, 19 October 2011
Yacouba Sawadogo, a peasant farmer from Burkina Faso, is known as the "man who stopped the desert." But when he first tried to save his arid land from desertification by planting… Read more »
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West Africa: Looking to the Sahel for Lessons in Pushing Back Deserts
IPS, 17 October 2011
Nearly all our food comes from the Earth's limited food-producing lands, but those lands continue to be degraded, guaranteeing far higher food prices and less food in the future,… Read more »
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The Great Green Wall project involves planting a living wall of trees and bushes linking Dakar on the Atlantic coast with Djibouti on the Red Sea to protect the semi-arid Sahel ... Read more »
