This is exactly the right way for humans to behave. Make things better in a way that is healthy and productive. Many blessings to those that are doing this good work.
Thanks for your support, its a shame this initiative has had zero coverage! And its such an amazing example of helping local communities to thrive. Even this video is being criticised and suppressed, I wonder why 🤔
@@LeafofLifeWorld our progress towards justice for and survival of all lifestreams on this planet is being blocked by those greedy and blind gazillionaires who want to maintain the status quo so they can keep raking in the money. Their time is coming to an end, and they feel it, so they are digging their heels in. But they won’t succeed. And we need to help roll in the new changes - so we need to keep the pressure up, anchor the Light, and educate people about the progress we ARE making, as you are doing with your videos! Then the average person won’t feel so helpless and hopeless and they can ACT instead of sitting around feeling overwhelmed and depressed! Yes!
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This is good news,people are actually helping them selves,there has been too many people taking from our earth and not putting back,leading to destroying our earth,Eygypt are a good example to other country's,God bless them.
Egypt was a prosperous bread basket. May it become so once more. May Sekam and it's beautiful dream prosper! I will remember it in my prayers. Much love from the U.S.A.!
Egypt even in the Bible was "the grains center" of the Mediterranean. It was the place where any trader could buy and sell"food". By further"greening" the entire region.... all areas can become food making centers. Growing not only dates and sheep but almost every produce and livestock that the world needs for supermarkets, restaurants and home cooking.😍🌎
Exactly it has been the historical breadbasket and in alot of ways still is since even though food insecurity is an issue, international organisations have poured billions of dollars to make Egypts agricultural commodities up to international export standards. There's alot of focus on importing and exporting, let's hope more domestic food security in the long run
Wow I didn't know a community in Egypt like this existed (been to lower & upper Egypt) . Most places in egypt the people are destroying the environment not helping it. Most do not care about health, professionalism and fair business practices. This is heaven to my ears to hear about Egyptians that actually care. I will visit this place soon.
Well, there is a large forest in the Ismailia region. The government is trying to promote various forests. The government is also promoting solar power on a massive scale. You're right more Egyptians need to become environmentally minded also in Jordan. There is some work in Jordan like this, but more is needed.
@@QUINTUSMAXIMUS i heard there is a project to regreen the sinai peninsula. Company called weather makers says a green sinai could turn the whole middle east and north africa green by diverting rainfall from the medditeranean and Indian ocean.
As long as we respect nature, nature will not only respect us but it will love us as well. All the best to every individual who involves in this great work. Rest in peace🌹Mr.Ibraheem,🌹your great work will continue fruitfully.
Id love it if you made a video about the general ideas going into a lot of these restoration projects. One aspect I see few people talk about is the symbiosis between mycorrhizal fungi, soil microbes, and plants that enables soil peculation and helps support plants pretty much everywhere in the world. Also great videos btw! The more you show these projects and some of the relatively simple ways that are helping restore the positive feedback loops our world runs on the more people get educated.
@@LeafofLifeWorld oh I totally agree! Egypt largly turned to dust a long time ago and it's great to show what work can do to some of the worst cases of desertification.
Well done Egypt, i love seeing these developments like in China. China also has lots of desert and have now turned a lot of if into soil for agriculture. What most peoples don't know. When humans work together torwards a goal, they can achieve a lot. We have to keep this mindset.
Hi there, there is another comment which ask the same question and we answered there but its difficult to say since Sekem works with biodynamic cooperative with farmers all over the nike delta so its up to each farmer how they irrigate but the biodynamic teachings show how to conserve water and do beat practices, you can find out more about the biodynamic and organic cooperative in the pin comment
Thank for such insightful on Sekem. Been following this project for years and hopefully something will manifest here in West Africa along similar thoughts.Thanking you for sharing.
Why don't countries who have sea shores plant mangrove forest on its coastline , this will also help in making a country green and will increase it's green cover
Its great to see this news story by @leafoflifefilms because all the videos I watch about Egypt are so negative, and all these billions being spent on new cities when here is a working community thriving organically and making money and caring for its people 💚
As great as it sounds this is just a drop in the ocean compared to ancient Egypt whos farming stretched far into Libya it’s reported that Egypt was the breadbasket to Africa and trade stretched into Greece and Italy. With such tech I hope one day we will see a green Egypt and stretch technique to Libyan once again so we can reverse the tide of sand using other technology to create water in dry areas using off grid gw power we may finally succeed to prevent issues of food and cooking oil shortages that has sent million into panic this year
Imagine, egypt block the nile's water to draine to the mediteranean sea. The nile water will spills out to its left and right inundating all its valleys. But before it happens, egypt should have prepared the dams, canals to direct the water to all the deppresions in the desert to its right and left.
That also can cause major ecological damage to life that exists both in salt water and fresh water, some fish live out at sea and come inland to spawn in rivers, if they can make a fish pass to compensate for this maybe it could work?
@@LeafofLifeWorld ya, i understand. but it could be compromised. i watched videos about fish ladder. so now lets block +/-90% and spare +/-10% for fish ladders in its estuaries. and for now, egypt must plant native trees around their lakes (lake toshka, lake nasser, etc) to give shade as well as to retain more water in the soil. next, they can extend the canals and ditches beyond those lakes. i think digging ditches and planting trees in the same time is not that expensive i watched videos about these lakes which is too much exposed to sun and heat. the evaporation and water losses must be so high
Whilst they doing that, perhaps they could capture the air around and keep it within their borders right? Our planets work as one. Everything is connected. Get it.
👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏Keep it Up! Greening the world. 💪💪💪Hope they can also greening the baron hills and mountain which may help to improve the nature mosture, dews and water in the morning, to create river and evaporation into clouds.
Building "Farm Towns" or "Farm Cities" should be the next big projects... Farming houses for families might be better for people in the future because thier homes can grow food that people need in the Public markets...
They are doing biodynamic so its organic and suppose to be recharging aquifers, so probably helping the enviornment by all accounts. Did you get to the part of the video where they helped turn almost all cotton farming in the area to be organic with help of the government?
i just need to come and give my nation a loving hand. Ive been away from it for ions. The last time i set foot in Hades/Egypt, my name was Aesop. Soon & very soon. Yall are going to see the King, Soon and very soon yall are going to see the King. Hallelujah Hallelujah yall are going to see the King. LOL
Restoration to lands can be done in many ways, E.g, making green land, no tilling, mulching, permaculture, if fog nets work to collect water, but, biggest part also coupling it all with "ELECTROCULTURE" !! Look it up all ! Desertification is very possible in all cases ! When greenery returns, it will attract normal rain clouds towards that land, give rains and you can have streams, rivers etc, formed again and things snowball from there! Good luck 👍 😊
Is this a government made infomercial? I was in Egypt in 1995 - in Cairo and Luxor. No one mentioned this development at that time, and there was no noticeable change in landscape along the Nile.
Amen egypt. You did it You really did it. I just love you all for your blessings to earth. We have a chance to make earth live long. Amen I want to help egypt I will pray for water for your gardens give you blessing of love and joy in a graceful manner as you enjoy earth. So wonderful good news. Your rich.
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I am disappointed that the stuff shown still is monocropped, bare soil, etc. That can still be very destructive. Saw zero livestock incorporated for pest/weed management...
Biodynamic is a great way to farm since you can make it commercial scale and organic, they do things to promote biodiversity, conserve water using irrigation machine. The business also cares about its workers, its so shocking the poverty and mess people live in, in Egypt, its got alot of resources and they are expected to export alot of food to all these other countries making them less food secure. They spend billions on trying to solve these problems when they could easily be solved with initiatives like this! Well done Sekem
@@b_uppy if you want to make commercial products to sell you have to have some fields of all the same crops. Nature also works like that, you get natural fields of lavender or herbs like oregano or rosemary, and grains, all it takes is to leave the house and walk in nature and you will find these pockets where one crop will dominate for a month or so, then the crop is harvested or in nature will be eaten by animals and die back mulch down for another crop to grow. So just saying its all monocrop and declaring thats bad is really short sighted, and not accepting how nature works too, you have to monocrop a little to grow these kinds of crops to sell other wise the work is back breaking and would take absolutely ages to separate mint from potentially poisonous plants in the field. Even permaculture and agroforestry use lines to plant crops. You can easily see in this video there are trees and hedgerows, they have birds and lady bugs for pest control, its like you are being overly nebegative for no reason 🙄 maybe its because these are brown people you expect them to slave away in a field. But when a white man plants his " permaculture" farm in rows well that's ok
@@unite3717 Employing better practices than what the stock images shown would be a good start. Hate to think the group in the video is saying one thing and doing another. Rainwater harvesting earthworks and techniques are important though I saw some dessicating, soil solarizing practices in the video.
It is a little weird how the first picture doesn't have a mountain in the background, But once they have a shitload of plants They must have been growing the mountain as well
Though impressive, this video did not mention at all what the water source is, for all this regenerative agriculture. Since the rainfall is very little or even zero, the source of water (as far as i know) is the Nile river, and/or a deep aquifer which is quite large, but will last for only 300 or 500 years To be truly regenerative, they have to focus on reforestation, as forests will help recharge this precious aquifer, in an area which recieves between zero and 150 l/square meter/ year As far as i can see, the type of agriculture they do, even though it looks beautiful and fertile, will evaporate huge amounts of water. The water they use (be it from the Nile or from the deep aquifer) should be used extremely wisely... not casually, as we would use it in a temperate climate, where we receive much more rainfall (around 600l/sq meter/year) A healthy approach would be to ensure the comfortable livelihood of all the people there, and as soon as that is ensured, the focus should shift totally, and intensely, to reforestation, and water catchment of every single drop of water that ever falls, especially as in arid areas the water falls all at once in a flood
We mentioned waste water mangement and conservation, its hard to go into detail about it since Sekem work with several farmers across the nile delta. What we do know and have explained in the video is they use biodynamic practices which conserve water, there is no footage to show or explain so its difficult for us to over emphasize this into some illustrative demonstration but it was mentioned already, we also showed the mechanical machinery which they use to irrigate these machine use 50% less water than traditional flood irrigation. There is no rain there so I doubt rainwater catching will do any good. They did say that the practices help to recharge the aquifers but again that is not something we can illustrate or show unfortunately but when using best practices thats technically what should happen.
@@LeafofLifeWorld There is some rainfall in some areas of Egypt, So rain water cathment is necessary in those areas, but some areas indeed recieve zero rain I saw many big fields in the video... that means a loot of evaporation. THat is not a good practice in an arid area where water is really scarce, or from limited sources such as the Nile or a deep aquifer I understand that it's 50% more efficient than flood irigation, but flood irigation wastes a lot of water thru evaporation, and that is simply not ideal in an arid climate The efforts are impressive, and i do not mean to be judgmental, but also we have to look at the facts, and at other smaller desert projects which are sustainable and productive
@@lizziespector8036 Sure! It is great and improved the lives of people. My inquiry os open.. and is more about the sustainability of it regarding the water source I am very happy to see this video?
That is the way Egypt needs to be - focusing on more fisheries, more agriculture, more solar and hydrogen power, a focus on modernity, technology, not old ideas.
The problem is that they are living and growing cities along the Nile which should be used for agriculture.... That's the problem.... If they moved the cities 20km from the river and then farmed and cleaned up the Nile it would flourish, they could also introduce residential agriculture as a means of generating food and small revenue streams alongside their other skills.
@@hunterhq295 its such a great project I would love to go there myself and get the latest images however our channel which is extremely small and self funded just can't do that, its too expensive! The other option is to employ a film crew remotely also very expensive option. I believe some of the photos and videos shown are newer, the project is running 45 years across multiple farmers along the nile delta, so it would be impossible to capture all that, and get specific dates etc, that would require months of a research team investigation, there are a ton of pictures online that are recent you can take a look at if your interested in the project.
@@LeafofLifeWorld so, after watching this video intently twice I still have NO IDEA how the greening was done. This video needs proper editing badly. -- the greening was done by disalination of sea water? Usually this water source is too small for farming for farming. -- Is it organic farming that you mentioned? I don't understand what method in the organic farming that did it. -- Is it new manufacturing you mentioned that green the desert? -- Saying, "Biodinamic technics" is still not telling me how it was done since I have no idea what it means. -- saying, "agraforestry", still does not tell me what they did since I don't know what that means. -- "closed nutrient cycle" - what? -- "Biodinamic " - what? -- "moon cycles" - WHAT? -- "the call program" greened the desert? -- "waste water treatment for irrigation" sounds like it would help a little... -- "four dimensions of ecology" - WHAT??? All these terms do not explain to me how it was done!!! 👍
hemp is very useful too, but illegal in alot of countries still. when it comes to clothing production cotton does produces a softer fabric. Its possible to grow cotton with less water using innovations in water technology but also can be grown with mixed and cover crops to reduce water usage tradationally
@leafoflifeworld…aha, agreed I’m still stuck on old technology but new innovations in the cotton industry is the reality. I still prefer hemp in my humble opinion
Relocating the population out of the Nile River would be wise...... That's the natural fresh water source of Egypt. Too many people living near it would pollute or turn Nile River into a sewage system I believe... Like Oil Wells, the region should be kept pristine, clean and like the garden of Eden. There should only be water factories around it to gather and treat the fresh water for Agriculture or Aquaculture....and through pipes distribute the fresh water inland....into new regions being habitated by the people who may have a small scale agriculture or aquaculture operation for exports or domestic distribution.....
Would be nice to have some statistics, like over how long of a period, acres under cultivation, and percent of local food grown items available over time. Etc
Hi Elaine, there were some stats in there, we mentioned already the mother farm is bigger than 600 hectares, since 45 years ago doing crop rotation and biodynamic, they have planted hundreds of thousands of trees. That they employ 4000 people, that they work with farmers all over the region, I don't know the percentage of the items but they have a shop selling all the products of tea, clothes and food, those stats I couldn't find so they were not included, but feel free to go and check the sekem website yourself for further information
Population needs to be in balance with jobs, resources, nature and the environment. Having a bigger population in any country than the country can support makes no sense. Access to food, water, shelter, energy and jobs should guide population levels. The worlds population is still expected to add another billion people to feed, clothe and produce pollution. Humans are crowding out all other species of plants and animals. Education and birth control are key to reducing poverty and hunger. Having a child that you can not provide for yourself is cruel and irresponsible. We need solutions not just sympathy. Endless population growth is not sustainable on a finite planet. Every country needs to "TRY" to be more self sufficient. When there are not enough resources to sustain a population something has to give. Countries need to focus on quality of life for their citizens and not just quantity of life for cheap labor. Why import fossil fuels when wind and solar energy can be produced locally and solar energy can power electric vehicles. We need solutions not just sympathy.
You know what helps helping women to have equal rights and access to education, these basic needs are not available to women, there only choice society is giving them is to get married and have kids. Giving women more freedom and education allows them to get jobs and have their own income, thus they can be independent instead of baby making machine aswell as cook and cleaner for these lazy men.
Its wonderful projects by visionary thinkers that offer hope in a dying world, due to climate change, pollution and over development, now If only you can get rid of all those fossil fuel vehicles and congested roads…nice documentary, thank you…🙂
@@LeafofLifeWorld indeed it does, if only others countries thought like this, I’ve been advocating for years on social media, for more organic local farming to replace mega farms and their use of fertilizers, not to mention the transportation of, but the problem is capitalism and real estate as investments the wealthy to hide their wealth and for developers, while idiot politicians are bought and paid for by special interest, it good to see that such a ancient civilization has emerged as a leader and example of what can be accomplished, helping the people instead of lining the pockets of corrupt politicians…Peace!
Now we are visionary 🤔. Aren't. You the same people. Who said. We. Are building a vanity project. Called the new capital. To. Satisfy the ego of the disctator 🤔
@@user-or1rm1ol3q the same people !!! I have no idea what your referring to, I speak for myself, my only care is for what’s is I the best interest of making the world a better place and protecting life on this planet call earth…that part of the world was once forested, but over thousands of years, civilizations have deforested it for many reasons, it’s called desertification, like cancer, the cure is difficult to reverse…I do not care about one ideology, only what helped improve the lives of those who are struggling to survive…
This is exactly the right way for humans to behave. Make things better in a way that is healthy and productive. Many blessings to those that are doing this good work.
Because the companies with the billions/trillions are not doing it.
Keep going! The world needs to hear this good news, which is not reported by mainstream media!
Thanks for your support, its a shame this initiative has had zero coverage! And its such an amazing example of helping local communities to thrive. Even this video is being criticised and suppressed, I wonder why 🤔
@@LeafofLifeWorld our progress towards justice for and survival of all lifestreams on this planet is being blocked by those greedy and blind gazillionaires who want to maintain the status quo so they can keep raking in the money. Their time is coming to an end, and they feel it, so they are digging their heels in. But they won’t succeed. And we need to help roll in the new changes - so we need to keep the pressure up, anchor the Light, and educate people about the progress we ARE making, as you are doing with your videos! Then the average person won’t feel so helpless and hopeless and they can ACT instead of sitting around feeling overwhelmed and depressed! Yes!
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What is the name of the farm? And of the man who started it? It is really difficult to understand
The mainstream wants you to be discouraged and think it's impossible, so you don't even try. Rebuke the discourager and always hope!
The secret of find more water is to plant more trees
It's shocking how diverse some of the vegetation is there. Really beautiful and inspiring.
I'm gonna try this in my country of yemen where we import about 75% of our food. thank you for the knowledge GOD BLESS
let us know how it works out!
May Allah Bless our brothers in Egypt... بارك الله لأشقّائنا المصريّين، أخوكم من الجزائر
This is good news,people are actually helping them selves,there has been too many people taking from our earth and not putting back,leading to destroying our earth,Eygypt are a good example to other country's,God bless them.
When people get busy doing constructive work, the are less likely to engage in useless wars! Keep it up beautifull people of Egypt
Well done Egypt!! Hope for greater success in future.
They should be building more places like this instead of a new capital city that looks like a copy of Dubai.
Egypt was a prosperous bread basket. May it become so once more.
May Sekam and it's beautiful dream prosper! I will remember it in my prayers. Much love from the U.S.A.!
Egypt even in the Bible was "the grains center" of the Mediterranean. It was the place where any trader could buy and sell"food". By further"greening" the entire region.... all areas can become food making centers. Growing not only dates and sheep but almost every produce and livestock that the world needs for supermarkets, restaurants and home cooking.😍🌎
Exactly it has been the historical breadbasket and in alot of ways still is since even though food insecurity is an issue, international organisations have poured billions of dollars to make Egypts agricultural commodities up to international export standards. There's alot of focus on importing and exporting, let's hope more domestic food security in the long run
Thank you for highlighting this awesome initiative.
Wow I didn't know a community in Egypt like this existed (been to lower & upper Egypt) . Most places in egypt the people are destroying the environment not helping it. Most do not care about health, professionalism and fair business practices. This is heaven to my ears to hear about Egyptians that actually care. I will visit this place soon.
Well, there is a large forest in the Ismailia region. The government is trying to promote various forests. The government is also promoting solar power on a massive scale. You're right more Egyptians need to become environmentally minded also in Jordan. There is some work in Jordan like this, but more is needed.
@@QUINTUSMAXIMUS i heard there is a project to regreen the sinai peninsula. Company called weather makers says a green sinai could turn the whole middle east and north africa green by diverting rainfall from the medditeranean and Indian ocean.
As long as we respect nature, nature will not only respect us but it will love us as well. All the best to every individual who involves in this great work. Rest in peace🌹Mr.Ibraheem,🌹your great work will continue fruitfully.
Un-western ways of living is the best bet.
Id love it if you made a video about the general ideas going into a lot of these restoration projects. One aspect I see few people talk about is the symbiosis between mycorrhizal fungi, soil microbes, and plants that enables soil peculation and helps support plants pretty much everywhere in the world. Also great videos btw! The more you show these projects and some of the relatively simple ways that are helping restore the positive feedback loops our world runs on the more people get educated.
Thanks 😊 we wanted to focus more on the social benefits in this video, since that is a huge issue that Egypt is facing and hasn't fully resolved
@@LeafofLifeWorld oh I totally agree! Egypt largly turned to dust a long time ago and it's great to show what work can do to some of the worst cases of desertification.
Fungi cannot exist without soil carbon.
Soil carbon doesn't exist without leaf litter.
Nature is a complete turning CYCLE.
Absolutely fantastic for its country, environment and it’s people 💕👍🏽
Well done Egypt, i love seeing these developments like in China. China also has lots of desert and have now turned a lot of if into soil for agriculture.
What most peoples don't know. When humans work together torwards a goal, they can achieve a lot. We have to keep this mindset.
these are great to fall asleep to. love her accent.
Wow thank you 😊 im glad you find my voice relaxing enough for aiding your sleep, rest well and good night
Love this story, the science seems so simple but amazing
Glad you enjoyed it!
Good stories like this give me hope.
Thank you, also comments like these give us hope 🙏
So Inspiring. The world needs solutions like this.
Wonderful
Ah Cairo Traffic! The 8th Wonder of the World. I would love to see a documentary on that.
But this was a wonderful surprise. I thought it was good.
At what cost! Draining aquifers starts a ticking bomb. Eventually the bill comes due.
Check their website they say they practices that help restore the aquifers
Could you please comment more on which water sources they're using and whether this can be scaled to larger areas given the Blue Nile dam project?
Hi there, there is another comment which ask the same question and we answered there but its difficult to say since Sekem works with biodynamic cooperative with farmers all over the nike delta so its up to each farmer how they irrigate but the biodynamic teachings show how to conserve water and do beat practices, you can find out more about the biodynamic and organic cooperative in the pin comment
@@LeafofLifeWorld thank you. 🙏
@@RezaRob3 my pleasure 😊
Thank for such insightful on Sekem. Been following this project for years and hopefully something will manifest here in West Africa along similar thoughts.Thanking you for sharing.
Now I want to learn arabic and go to school there😂
Hey, you are welcome here. Be our guest.
Organics! Organics are the solution to most of our problems. We learn from the Earth, not dominate it.
Turning ugly desert into green beautiful forest is a very good work. It is very blessings for the world.
Awesome ! Keep going and don’t give up ! 😎🙏💙💙💙
Always plant tall spreading shadows various trees 🌳 suitable for Soil&climate of the regions. Turn regions into lush green forest
This should happen all over the world
Brilliant, this is the way forward. You see, we can do it when we try. There's a reason we have these big brains. Wonderful initiative. 👍
Absolutely!
Why don't countries who have sea shores plant mangrove forest on its coastline , this will also help in making a country green and will increase it's green cover
Congrats, you did it! Aamiin
Way to go Egypt
Its great to see this news story by @leafoflifefilms because all the videos I watch about Egypt are so negative, and all these billions being spent on new cities when here is a working community thriving organically and making money and caring for its people 💚
This was great news!
Οι Έλληνες αγαπούν τους Αιγύπτιους!
Χαιρόμαστε γιά την πρόοδο της χώρας τους!!
Thanks Egyptian love Greek
Thank you for this video. Sekem. People. Planet. Profit. Done in an honourable way. :)
As great as it sounds this is just a drop in the ocean compared to ancient Egypt whos farming stretched far into Libya it’s reported that Egypt was the breadbasket to Africa and trade stretched into Greece and Italy. With such tech I hope one day we will see a green Egypt and stretch technique to Libyan once again so we can reverse the tide of sand using other technology to create water in dry areas using off grid gw power we may finally succeed to prevent issues of food and cooking oil shortages that has sent million into panic this year
Imagine, egypt block the nile's water to draine to the mediteranean sea. The nile water will spills out to its left and right inundating all its valleys.
But before it happens, egypt should have prepared the dams, canals to direct the water to all the deppresions in the desert to its right and left.
That also can cause major ecological damage to life that exists both in salt water and fresh water, some fish live out at sea and come inland to spawn in rivers, if they can make a fish pass to compensate for this maybe it could work?
@@LeafofLifeWorld ya, i understand.
but it could be compromised. i watched videos about fish ladder. so now lets block +/-90% and spare +/-10% for fish ladders in its estuaries.
and for now, egypt must plant native trees around their lakes (lake toshka, lake nasser, etc) to give shade as well as to retain more water in the soil. next, they can extend the canals and ditches beyond those lakes.
i think digging ditches and planting trees in the same time is not that expensive
i watched videos about these lakes which is too much exposed to sun and heat. the evaporation and water losses must be so high
Whilst they doing that, perhaps they could capture the air around and keep it within their borders right? Our planets work as one. Everything is connected. Get it.
Wow amazing Egypt
This is wonderful news!
Very inspirational story! Thank you!
Fantastic approach and result. How do they go with sourcing water?
👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏Keep it Up! Greening the world. 💪💪💪Hope they can also greening the baron hills and mountain which may help to improve the nature mosture, dews and water in the morning, to create river and evaporation into clouds.
Your voice suites this video just right! Makes it a lot easier to watch👌🏽
Anything is possible if you believe you can do it.
Excellent
The Nile used to support farms, glad to see it going back.
Building "Farm Towns" or "Farm Cities" should be the next big projects... Farming houses for families might be better for people in the future because thier homes can grow food that people need in the Public markets...
And affected the environment in what way? What was the environmental cost?
They are doing biodynamic so its organic and suppose to be recharging aquifers, so probably helping the enviornment by all accounts. Did you get to the part of the video where they helped turn almost all cotton farming in the area to be organic with help of the government?
Fantastic a safe future for the world Thank you.
Just amazing...
So what happens to the top layer? Is the top layer a mixture of sand and compost? Or is the top 3 inches just compost?
Well i suppose then you could say about the desert, that they gave it,
A " LEAF IF LIFE" !!
LOL 😊😊😅😅😂😂❤❤
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👏😍amazing
where do they get water? im half way into this. 5 minutes.
i just need to come and give my nation a loving hand. Ive been away from it for ions. The last time i set foot in Hades/Egypt, my name was Aesop. Soon & very soon. Yall are going to see the King, Soon and very soon yall are going to see the King. Hallelujah Hallelujah yall are going to see the King. LOL
Natural rhythms, minimal chemicals, no GMO, NO Bill Gates of hell.
and where did he get the water from to do this??
Can someone suggest me to literature/books about the techniques he used to grow food in the Egyptian desert? I would love to do the same...
The Egyptians have done something that reflects both the past and the future.
I love this channel
thank you so much x
Restoration to lands can be done in many ways,
E.g, making green land, no tilling, mulching, permaculture, if fog nets work to collect water, but, biggest part also coupling it all with "ELECTROCULTURE" !!
Look it up all !
Desertification is very possible in all cases !
When greenery returns, it will attract normal rain clouds towards that land, give rains and you can have streams, rivers etc, formed again and things snowball from there!
Good luck 👍 😊
Planting Mangroves in Nile's Delta can trigger chain reaction of slow reforestation of Sahara.
Inspirational
love the content, but please stop the intermittent cymbol sound
Is this a government made infomercial? I was in Egypt in 1995 - in Cairo and Luxor. No one mentioned this development at that time, and there was no noticeable change in landscape along the Nile.
Amen egypt.
You did it
You really did it.
I just love you all for your blessings to earth.
We have a chance to make earth live long. Amen
I want to help egypt
I will pray for water for your gardens give you blessing of love and joy in a graceful manner as you enjoy earth.
So wonderful good news.
Your rich.
I could just write a song out of this good news sing it all day to myself.
Amen
Very hopeful; wow Alternative Nobel Prize!!
may the infinite allah bless Egypt and its people
great,i hope it spreadrs
6:01 iSiS tea 😳
Its also a name for Egyptian godess
I need a lot of water to make green desert
الحمد لله ❤️🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬
Amazing.
Green the desert project is simalar.i wish i could afford land in australia to grow food
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I am disappointed that the stuff shown still is monocropped, bare soil, etc. That can still be very destructive. Saw zero livestock incorporated for pest/weed management...
Biodynamic is a great way to farm since you can make it commercial scale and organic, they do things to promote biodiversity, conserve water using irrigation machine. The business also cares about its workers, its so shocking the poverty and mess people live in, in Egypt, its got alot of resources and they are expected to export alot of food to all these other countries making them less food secure. They spend billions on trying to solve these problems when they could easily be solved with initiatives like this! Well done Sekem
@@b_uppy if you want to make commercial products to sell you have to have some fields of all the same crops. Nature also works like that, you get natural fields of lavender or herbs like oregano or rosemary, and grains, all it takes is to leave the house and walk in nature and you will find these pockets where one crop will dominate for a month or so, then the crop is harvested or in nature will be eaten by animals and die back mulch down for another crop to grow. So just saying its all monocrop and declaring thats bad is really short sighted, and not accepting how nature works too, you have to monocrop a little to grow these kinds of crops to sell other wise the work is back breaking and would take absolutely ages to separate mint from potentially poisonous plants in the field. Even permaculture and agroforestry use lines to plant crops. You can easily see in this video there are trees and hedgerows, they have birds and lady bugs for pest control, its like you are being overly nebegative for no reason 🙄 maybe its because these are brown people you expect them to slave away in a field. But when a white man plants his " permaculture" farm in rows well that's ok
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Employing better practices than what the stock images shown would be a good start. Hate to think the group in the video is saying one thing and doing another.
Rainwater harvesting earthworks and techniques are important though I saw some dessicating, soil solarizing practices in the video.
When the pyramids were built, the Gaza Strip was not desert.
It is a little weird how the first picture
doesn't have a mountain in the background,
But once they have a shitload of plants
They must have been growing the mountain as well
Though impressive, this video did not mention at all what the water source is, for all this regenerative agriculture.
Since the rainfall is very little or even zero, the source of water (as far as i know) is the Nile river, and/or a deep aquifer which is quite large, but will last for only 300 or 500 years
To be truly regenerative, they have to focus on reforestation, as forests will help recharge this precious aquifer, in an area which recieves between zero and 150 l/square meter/ year
As far as i can see, the type of agriculture they do, even though it looks beautiful and fertile, will evaporate huge amounts of water. The water they use (be it from the Nile or from the deep aquifer) should be used extremely wisely... not casually, as we would use it in a temperate climate, where we receive much more rainfall (around 600l/sq meter/year)
A healthy approach would be to ensure the comfortable livelihood of all the people there, and as soon as that is ensured, the focus should shift totally, and intensely, to reforestation, and water catchment of every single drop of water that ever falls, especially as in arid areas the water falls all at once in a flood
We mentioned waste water mangement and conservation, its hard to go into detail about it since Sekem work with several farmers across the nile delta. What we do know and have explained in the video is they use biodynamic practices which conserve water, there is no footage to show or explain so its difficult for us to over emphasize this into some illustrative demonstration but it was mentioned already, we also showed the mechanical machinery which they use to irrigate these machine use 50% less water than traditional flood irrigation.
There is no rain there so I doubt rainwater catching will do any good.
They did say that the practices help to recharge the aquifers but again that is not something we can illustrate or show unfortunately but when using best practices thats technically what should happen.
@@LeafofLifeWorld
There is some rainfall in some areas of Egypt, So rain water cathment is necessary in those areas, but some areas indeed recieve zero rain
I saw many big fields in the video... that means a loot of evaporation. THat is not a good practice in an arid area where water is really scarce, or from limited sources such as the Nile or a deep aquifer
I understand that it's 50% more efficient than flood irigation, but flood irigation wastes a lot of water thru evaporation, and that is simply not ideal in an arid climate
The efforts are impressive, and i do not mean to be judgmental, but also we have to look at the facts, and at other smaller desert projects which are sustainable and productive
@@matei6114 the project is still running 45 years later, of course it is successful
@@lizziespector8036 Sure! It is great and improved the lives of people. My inquiry os open.. and is more about the sustainability of it regarding the water source
I am very happy to see this video?
That is the way Egypt needs to be - focusing on more fisheries, more agriculture, more solar and hydrogen power, a focus on modernity, technology, not old ideas.
The problem is that they are living and growing cities along the Nile which should be used for agriculture.... That's the problem.... If they moved the cities 20km from the river and then farmed and cleaned up the Nile it would flourish, they could also introduce residential agriculture as a means of generating food and small revenue streams alongside their other skills.
8:29-When was this pic taken? This year?
Some of the documentation is from a year or so ago, some several years ago, this particular one I think maybe 6 years ago, the project is 45 years old
@@LeafofLifeWorld Would be cool to get images from this year to see how it's going now, hope so for future videos if possible.
@@hunterhq295 its such a great project I would love to go there myself and get the latest images however our channel which is extremely small and self funded just can't do that, its too expensive! The other option is to employ a film crew remotely also very expensive option. I believe some of the photos and videos shown are newer, the project is running 45 years across multiple farmers along the nile delta, so it would be impossible to capture all that, and get specific dates etc, that would require months of a research team investigation, there are a ton of pictures online that are recent you can take a look at if your interested in the project.
@@LeafofLifeWorld Anyone there managing the place since these are worldwide projects?
Human beings are a community, that's why their human beings.
How about using the desert land for production of cotton for export,and installing solar panel s for electricity!!!!!
We mentioned they are doing cotton production already and making organic textiles, its at the end of the video
@@LeafofLifeWorld would like ve to see the efforts replicated in Iran and Afghanistan!!!!!
@@LeafofLifeWorld should do a great deal more of cotton tocover all of Bangladesh 's requirements!!!!!
Green more and more and also get cows and goat insides with fishing
This is very positive and hopeful video. Yet, was disappointing since it never really answer the question in the title. How?
Really glad you enjoy it but I don't understand we spent 8 minutes explaining the project, which bit do you need answering or explaining?
If you watched the entire video, you would have gotten the answer. Start at 4’00
There is no. Such. Thing as how With the Egyptians. Dummy
@@LeafofLifeWorld so, after watching this video intently twice I still have NO IDEA how the greening was done. This video needs proper editing badly.
-- the greening was done by disalination of sea water? Usually this water source is too small for farming for farming.
-- Is it organic farming that you mentioned? I don't understand what method in the organic farming that did it.
-- Is it new manufacturing you mentioned that green the desert?
-- Saying, "Biodinamic technics" is still not telling me how it was done since I have no idea what it means.
-- saying, "agraforestry", still does not tell me what they did since I don't know what that means.
-- "closed nutrient cycle" - what?
-- "Biodinamic " - what?
-- "moon cycles" - WHAT?
-- "the call program" greened the desert?
-- "waste water treatment for irrigation" sounds like it would help a little...
-- "four dimensions of ecology" - WHAT???
All these terms do not explain to me how it was done!!! 👍
@@LeafofLifeWorld I didn't understand where the water came from.
Industrial hemp is 1,000X better than cotton
Cotton uses so much water where as hemp is a fraction of that
hemp is very useful too, but illegal in alot of countries still. when it comes to clothing production cotton does produces a softer fabric. Its possible to grow cotton with less water using innovations in water technology but also can be grown with mixed and cover crops to reduce water usage tradationally
@leafoflifeworld…aha, agreed
I’m still stuck on old technology but new innovations in the cotton industry is the reality. I still prefer hemp in my humble opinion
Relocating the population out of the Nile River would be wise...... That's the natural fresh water source of Egypt. Too many people living near it would pollute or turn Nile River into a sewage system I believe... Like Oil Wells, the region should be kept pristine, clean and like the garden of Eden. There should only be water factories around it to gather and treat the fresh water for Agriculture or Aquaculture....and through pipes distribute the fresh water inland....into new regions being habitated by the people who may have a small scale agriculture or aquaculture operation for exports or domestic distribution.....
Would be nice to have some statistics, like over how long of a period, acres under cultivation, and percent of local food grown items available over time. Etc
Hi Elaine, there were some stats in there, we mentioned already the mother farm is bigger than 600 hectares, since 45 years ago doing crop rotation and biodynamic, they have planted hundreds of thousands of trees. That they employ 4000 people, that they work with farmers all over the region, I don't know the percentage of the items but they have a shop selling all the products of tea, clothes and food, those stats I couldn't find so they were not included, but feel free to go and check the sekem website yourself for further information
using fossil and not renowable water. is a time bomb.
Seems like a huge advertisement
Trust there is an emphasis on renewable especially solar pv, with prospect of exporting electricity to Europe!!!!!
Population needs to be in balance with jobs, resources, nature and the environment. Having a bigger population in any country than the country can support makes no sense. Access to food, water, shelter, energy and jobs should guide population levels. The worlds population is still expected to add another billion people to feed, clothe and produce pollution. Humans are crowding out all other species of plants and animals. Education and birth control are key to reducing poverty and hunger. Having a child that you can not provide for yourself is cruel and irresponsible. We need solutions not just sympathy. Endless population growth is not sustainable on a finite planet. Every country needs to "TRY" to be more self sufficient. When there are not enough resources to sustain a population something has to give. Countries need to focus on quality of life for their citizens and not just quantity of life for cheap labor. Why import fossil fuels when wind and solar energy can be produced locally and solar energy can power electric vehicles. We need solutions not just sympathy.
You know what helps helping women to have equal rights and access to education, these basic needs are not available to women, there only choice society is giving them is to get married and have kids. Giving women more freedom and education allows them to get jobs and have their own income, thus they can be independent instead of baby making machine aswell as cook and cleaner for these lazy men.
@@lizziespector8036 Education and birth control are key to reducing poverty and hunger.
Its wonderful projects by visionary thinkers that offer hope in a dying world, due to climate change, pollution and over development, now If only you can get rid of all those fossil fuel vehicles and congested roads…nice documentary, thank you…🙂
Having more local farms and food security helps reduce fossil fuel vehicles alot.
@@LeafofLifeWorld indeed it does, if only others countries thought like this, I’ve been advocating for years on social media, for more organic local farming to replace mega farms and their use of fertilizers, not to mention the transportation of, but the problem is capitalism and real estate as investments the wealthy to hide their wealth and for developers, while idiot politicians are bought and paid for by special interest, it good to see that such a ancient civilization has emerged as a leader and example of what can be accomplished, helping the people instead of lining the pockets of corrupt politicians…Peace!
Now we are visionary 🤔. Aren't. You the same people. Who said. We. Are building a vanity project. Called the new capital. To. Satisfy the ego of the disctator 🤔
@@user-or1rm1ol3q the same people !!! I have no idea what your referring to, I speak for myself, my only care is for what’s is I the best interest of making the world a better place and protecting life on this planet call earth…that part of the world was once forested, but over thousands of years, civilizations have deforested it for many reasons, it’s called desertification, like cancer, the cure is difficult to reverse…I do not care about one ideology, only what helped improve the lives of those who are struggling to survive…
@@tomjohn8733 I think. You. Are westerner. Just. Like. VOX
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