How the Sahara Desert is Turning into a Farmland Oasis - GREENING THE DESERT PROJECT
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- In the African Sahel a country called Niger bordering the Sahara Desert, the largest desert in the world, is stopping desertification and turning is deserts into an Oasis.
Regenerative Agriculture is leading the way with a technique called Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration or FMNR
FMNR was pioneered in the 1980s by Tony Rinaudo and Australian Agronomist who is widely known as the forest maker. The innovative technique has been adopted by local farmers through peer to peer learning making it cost effective and easy to implement. Over the last 40 years the visual results and the data have shown FMNR has been extremely successful in turning desert into farmland. It has regenerated 5 million hectors of degraded land, 200 million trees have been restored and has benefited 2.5 million people increasing house hold income by 18-24% the available arable land has doubled since the severe droughts of the 1970s and tree density has 10x since its all time low in the 1980s.
This is an extraordinary achievement considering Niger only receives on average 6.5 inches of rainfall a year and 80% of the country is considered a desert. The country has been effected by severe droughts and suffered huge land loss over the last decades and as a consequence Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world. However Niger has been turning this around, by turning its deserts into a farmland oasis through the technique of FMNR which you will learn more about in this video.
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⏩ More desert to farmland oasis transformation: ua-cam.com/video/jZ6PFlWvxY8/v-deo.html
⏩ Watch Part #2 of Sahara Regreening the Desert Projects 🍃where we cover a story about "the man who stopped the desert" from the country next to Niger called Burkina Faso: ua-cam.com/video/7Uhgw8_bKOI/v-deo.html
Very interesting! Since 1 third of the world is desert I think this is a great initiative and its all done naturally with regenerative agriculture unlike some other videos I've seen floating around about Saudi Arabia regreening the desert with horrible chemicals. This is much better, thank you for sharing 🙏
We need more greening the desert initiatives, especially in northern Africa, the desert is advancing and needs to be stopped. So glad Tony rinaudo saw something that could be done easily and cheaply, more natural regenerative ideas is what the world needs more of!
Fresh fruits and vegetables are vital to communities to survive. This can help eliminate hunger and many sicknesses.
This isn't good. It would be much much better to either, A, conserve the forests we already have, or B, plant native tree's in area's that have been deforested. The reason why this isn't going to help against climate change is because of color reflection. Yellow-white is more reflective on the heat from sun, while green takes in more heat from the sun. If you are planting this in the desert, while you are turning carbon into oxygen, your heating up the planet more, and wasting lots of water.
@@cookingwithkimbap4432 watch are you talking about, this technique FMNR is about conserving existing vegetation so the success rate is much higher than planging new trees 🌳 👌 😉
I am so proud of the people of Niger for taking a desert and turning it into a forest. It sounds impossible but they proved it. Great work
The aussie did it
@@ronaldreddish2264he may have been the leader behind it, but the people of Niger provided the labor.
Niger is still a desert, and the lands restored were a desert that this same people created. Thank that australian guy and the countries supporting this practice in Niger. Too bad it won't last now that you have a new corrupt Dictator "governing" the country with the help of Russian mercenaries.
It doesn't look like desert to me though, it was land on it's way of becoming a desert.
Proud of the people that destroyed that same land, and now are somehow repairing it thanks to an Aussie. Good, at least they are learning something other than stupid islam.
This Australian should get a Nobel Prize! What an inspiring story, thank you.
I think he got the alternative peace price
Bill Mollison is another Ozzie doing gods work with permaculture, they are having incredible results in india transforming the lives of 10's of millions of people!!
Absolutely
Excellent professional significant important information for climate change THIS IS SO IMPORTANT AWESOME
@@walk-with-Walz make sure to watch our latest sahara video where an African man is changing lives regreening the desert
This guy is a genius. I live in Australia and never heard of him. The Australian Government or MSM should promote and have periodic documentaries about this man. He surely must be an Australian proud. Thanks for sharing this video. Just fantastic to see what a positive human being is capable of. I wish him a long life and many more years in his joyful work.👏👏👏👏👏👏
Same here, I've never heard of him or his system!
"This guy is a genius. I live in Australia and never heard of him" EXACTLY
because its not NEW or unique to prune a tree.
taking SAND to forest = now that is new and unique.
yeah honestly, need to get the word out about him. work he is doing is marvelous.
@@cinnamonstar808 Who hurt you?
They will promote "Greta Thugberg".
I did a similar thing on a much smaller scale. More than 30 years ago we moved into a suburban house with a typical grass lawn. In spite of running the air conditioner 24 hours a day from February to October, the inside of the house was virtually unlivable. The front door on the Eastern side of the house would get so hot it would burn your hand if you touched it. I initially planted 60 hardwood trees on the property surrounding the house, and 90 Holly bushes around the perimeter of the property. The trees absorbed and blocked the direct sunlight hitting the walls and roof and the Holly bushes blocked the reflected sunlight bouncing from the lawn into the walls of the house. Now, 30+ years later, over a hundred additional trees have come up naturally, The house stays comfortable all year long and the natural wooded area surrounding the house is self maintaining. The woods require no mowing, weeding, chemicals or watering. In the mid summer months ,when there are periods of drought, the neighbors grass lawns die and turn brown while our yard is still green. Our electric bill went from almost $400.00 a month to $89.00 a month and there are no more lawn care costs.
kiss me
@@fgcpeak9591 If you take the money saved from not having lawn care expenses, add the money saved from about a 75% reduction in your electric bill and put that money into a ROTH IRA,; over 30 years with compounded interest will make you fairly wealthy. In my case it paid for the initial cost of the house many times over.
We just did this to our front yard. It faces south. Saving more money to do some more next year. It will be a few years before the trees will be big enough to benefit us. With Global warming I wish everyone would plant more trees for shade. If everyone would do a little something in their own part of the world, it would greatly help the whole.
Laurie Crater,
A house can be thought of as having walls and a roof. The roof receives only direct sunlight while the walls receive direct sunlight plus reflected sunlight from the lawn. That is why the shrubs and bushes were critical in reducing the heat hitting the house. I planted Buford Hollies because they did not require any human intervention to thrive.
@postholedigger8726 - Many congratulations to you. This is brilliant! An added bonus is also more birds, insects, animals. A garden of Eden…
this guy should get a noble prize award he helps poor people survive in the desert by helping them grow plants and trees...while helping the earth at the same time by creating greenery😊
Planet Crafter irl
He has not only saved land from being swallowed by the Sahara, his practices are being proved in the American Southwest desert regions which once believed cattle overgrazing was the cause of desert expansion when in fact it was the cattle footprints opening seed pods to prevent desert expansion -which he also believed until his own research proved him wrong.
the greening is mostly due to the rising CO2 levels.
People forget that CO2 is the gas of life, plant food, and the more of it there is, the more plant thrive
Sadly many in positions of influence don’t like to publicise ‘white saviours.’
He's probably trying to create a system that supports itself. In other words, training people who can continue to pass the practice on until it becomes traditional.
I'm Australian also and think ,not only should Tony get worldwide recognition for his work, but tbe Australian Government should get him to do similar work in our deserts.
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Our govt does not want this to happen! It takes food control out of their hands. Big Ag, Big Food, Big Tech and any other bigs you can think of would never let the govt do this. This has to be done by the people for the people.
Niger people are the ones started the program,, Tony ran there to take their credit,, if he is genuine let him transform his country not to show off in Africa
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Texan with no relevant knowledge, but I think the major difference between the Sahara and Australia's deserts is Aus deserts are much, much older than the Sahara. I'm not up on all the ways this makes a difference, but i would think the same techniques used in desertiying or recently desertified areas might not be as effective there and might not be a good idea.
What a wonderful project. Much more intelligent than sending people into space !!!!!!!
Very informative. Everyone should know the name of this man who is spear-heading this farming method. He is creating a better life for all he touches.
Thank you for your comment, agreed Tony Rinaudo has done an amazing job to Pioneer this regenerative technique but it would not be possible without the farmers on the ground teaching one and other and spreading the knowledge as well as wider world funding
Yeah I like the information where she said that the size of it is 3000 miles... whatever the f*** that means
@@iansmith6086 Exactly, when it's 3,6M square miles....
@@hyacinthus.b if she can't get that sort of information correct how can you trust the rest of the information in the video
The film is a lie. It was the idea of two different African Men who started the regreening of the deserts. They did not do it by trimming plants. They captured water and used manure to start the regreening of the desert. There are many videos giving credit to the right people and showing exactly how they did it and when it all started, and it wasn't in 1983. This the man who brought the desert back to life. This is worse than Columbus discovered America! White people try to make the world believe they invented everything and in reality, they were too busy killing and enslaving human beings to create anything. ua-cam.com/video/mfblLpKKM1Q/v-deo.html
incredibly encouraging and inspiring, especially the fact that FMNR incorporates local, traditional practices rather than relying solely on Western sprays & technologies. Should be shown in all schools!
Western sprays and tech is what speeding desertification.
Finally...finally a positive story about regeneration of the land rather than one of mans greed and destructive nature.
These people need our encouragment to continue this fantastic work.
Yes we need to keep encouraging and also doing our own bit in our local areas
Have a look at the Paani foundation, they are truly doing stella work, re-vegetating millions of acres and improving the lives of 10's of millions of people wile also healing the environment, I find it really inspirational. Theres some brilliant vids here on u tube!
Stumpers klootzakken je mag moeder aarde niet verstoren in balans laten
@@LeafofLifeWorld verdoemde honden koppen stel apen zijn slimmer dan jullie
Yeah those are just that STORIES. Only a FEW people are greedy and stupid the rest of us are fully reasonable and willing to do what it takes to make the place better.
Thi is wonderful to see. For decades I have wished that parts of the Sahara could be re greened like this.
This is so amazing and inspiring. 2 months ago I attended the Graziers Conference in Pennsylvania and saw a guy who was restoring the desert in Mexico by capturing rainfall and grazing cattle, and in 6 years or so, it turned from desert to prairie and the rains came more. Also there was a guy there with a company called Trees for Graziers and he was planting black locust in grazing fields and it was improving everything, and giving the cattle pods to eat in the fall after the grass stopped growing. The cattle beating their hooves and pooping and peeing does amazing things to the microbiome of the soil. The trees do other things like some shade, roots hold moisture. We just had farming wrong and this all can be corrected with education world wide. At least we can try. Traditional farming makes deserts. That's where the dust bowls came from in the US back in the day.
Think of the potential of turning the Sahara into the world's food bowl!! wouldn't that be fantastic?! America too can produce loads of food, you just gotta manage it right. Greetings y'all
Agreed but I also don't think cattle is necessary but some ppl do use them in a sustainable way
@@LeafofLifeWorld cattle is necessary for fertilizer, it feeds the soil, especially in huge fields.
Rotation grazing is a good use of cattle. Otherwise, they get destructive.
@@kittimcconnell2633 Yes, and it actually improves the soil, carbon, and microbiome greatly.
Fantastic! So encouraging to see one man turning around the lives of hundreds of thousands and benefitting the wild life, too. Tony Rinaudo is a real hero!
Defibately inspirational
Hero？
@@njsgjb3101 dumb questions stay unanswered
Tony Rinaudo deserves the Nobel Prize more than anyone. But, silent and sincere workers like him don't really care about these things.
Great news. Just be careful that the pet does not turn around and bite. Natives have been stating that they have no need for whites racing to Africa to give or do charity. They are well able to manage their own affairs
So great to see FMNR getting the publicity it deserves. Over 1.5million views! I met Tony in 1989 when I was working for USAID as Natural Resources Management Specialist in Niger and was immediately impressed by the work he was doing. He continues to promote FMNR to this day and it is really encouraging to see the worldwide spread and impact of this simple practice. The part I love the most is how the practice is passed along from farmer-to-farmer, peer-to-peer, with a minimum of costly project administration expenses, so typical of the many other well-intentioned, but less effective efforts.
So great! Watching Videos Matters!
You're well spoken. Now that is an educated person to me 🙂
Does FMNR get enough funding?
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The USAID was there undercover to ma out the uranium.
Repairing environments not meant to be deserts is imperative. It’s so very important to preventing famine and the suffering it causes, including war. This is brilliant.
Greening the Sahara would be a drastic change with profound consequences globally, regardless of the precise degree of warming. Weather patterns, ocean circulation, and entire ecosystems would all be altered. The change should be seen less about a specific temperature change and more about a transformative shift in the Earth's system.
@@epochgames3049this is about repairing areas which have recently become desert due to a variety of reasons…it’s notabout greening the future desert.
Tony Ronaldo is one human that seriously is changing the world for the better. His insights and hard work are truly inspiring.
Man I love white people. Even tho bad history (but every race and culture has similar dark history) they are providing with so much technological advancement and help the poor people all around the world. Majority of help and contributions to the world today is by white people.
We from Africa who are realists appreciate all the help and contributions!
// much love from Uganda
Monsanto are working out ways to eliminate him
@@vipr1142 That man found Niger people reclaiming their land,, but now he has used that as his project,, he did nothing anyway
And obviously he did not do it all by himself I'm sure there are hundreds of people planting these trees. And caring for them for years.
White people are the smartest people around, most of the inventors in the world are white people, however they also have a colonial and superiority mindset.
This Australian man..should be awarded for his incredible work...I hope he is still alive..a great man whom saved millions lives 👏 👍 🙏
he is google him, he even got rewarded
Tony Rinaudo is still alive and yes, he has been awarded. Look him up.
This is brilliant. I hope this momentum continues throughout Africa. And in other areas of the world too.
Hoping we don't get to World War 3 first.
This isnt brilliant you fool.. According to Quran this will mean the end of the world..
this could be brilliant for australia too.... especially along the west coast where the desert starts a few hours north of perth.... i have been thinking about this stuff alot the last few months, this video is brilliant, the problem is it takes human time to accomplish, it would be amazing to find a set and forget method to re-forest desert.
@@kezza10mail At least one human has to start
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Alhamdulillah, thanks Tony for your hard work and endless devotion. May Niger and other Sahara desert countries become green once again and the people live prosper and well fed. Salam from Indonesia.
terima kasih
Jesus is the lord
@@ektumz_inside4707 Jesus is one of the 124000 prophets sent by Allah to spread that God is one, and don't make humans or other creatures of God into God
@@hasanaliqadri1508 lol 😂. Allah is myth. Poor Prophet poor Boallah
@@R-Targaryen_ say that till death comes to you and then you will know what is myth and who is poorer and no one on earth can escape death but wait till you die, death is great leveler.
Oh my goodness! This is wondrous! God bless 🙏 you all, forest makers !!!
Now that is what I call true environmental conservation. It helps all the way around without costing a fortune and has improved peoples life. So excited to watch this!!!
This is amazing. I never in my life thought I'd see a desert slowly become usable again. The people making this happen are astounding. This should be made more aware around the world. It's crazy I'm just hearing of it, yet Johnny Depp's and Amber Heard's trial is forced in my news feed everday. That just shows the mentality of most humans these days.
Goats eat away at vegetation at the edges of deserts increasing the size of the deserts. Something needs to be done about goat-herding so close to desert areas.
Yes, people have been fed the superficial, two second sound byte microwave mentality and nightly news for so long they are nearly Brain dead. Children don't make model airplanes anymore, or very many things with their hands and brains.... just staring into a electronic device half the day won't help them when life catches up with them... I feel so sorry for them and especially my grandkids. But I am old Father William.
TURNING THE SAHARA GREEN WOULD 100% KILL THE AMAZON. THAT SAND NEEDS TO BLOW ACROSS TO SOUTH AMÉRICA EVERY YEAR, OR THE AMAZON DIES.
STOP CELEBRATING THIS IDEA AS SOMEHOW GREEN. THE VIDEO'S THUMBNAIL IS NOT HOPEFUL BUT AN ATROCITY.
@@ioftheuniverse2384 I DOUBT THAT
thank you i too have been wondering the unnecessary and forceful shoving in our face of the bs trial of 2 stupid people and the way it is being polarised!
Love from India ❤really a great change .....it's an inspiration for new generations..
Finally, rational logical thinking and the ideas thoughts plans of one good man, because that's all it takes Not greed not industrialization, just common sense a little compassion, and the sharing of knowledge ❤
We can all make a different using natures common sense
This is an example of amazing transformation of desert land. Hats off to vision and courage of a man who put his tremendous efforts to start this project. And achieved success in converting desert land in greenery.If such projects are taken up all over the world then definately our entire planet will be turned into a heaven. No shortage of Oxygen and basic food. Really appreciable.
Niger people started this process,, one man realized that and he ran there to take credit for other people's work
One thing I've come to realize, living in the US, is how so much of our cities and suburbs have become Concrete Jungles. You have parking lots everywhere, streets that are multiple lanes wide, and plenty of other structures made entirely of concrete. For the spaces that aren't concrete, they are usually nothing but grass, kept only a few inches high, with no other plant species growing there. This can be especially true in suburban residential areas; as far as I know, insurance companies are happier if you have nothing but grass in your yards. The concrete alone makes everything get hotter under the sun. This is certainly not the right way to go in regards to Global Warming, but it seems to make the
Worth mentioning that the degradation referenced, here, stems from a 1970's decision by the World Bank, telling countries of the Sahel to convert their prime agricultural land to cotton production to finance their debts. Food production then moved onto unsuitable soils, pushing pastoralists even further afield. Voila, soil degradation, forest destruction and desertification, all of which produced the regional famines of the mid- and late-70's.
Glad the banks got their money, though, because otherwise what suffering might befall the wealthy of the world?
This is a problem that has happened all over the world. Localisation is the key for future success of planet
Perish the thought that the entitled plutocrats should be inconvenienced by lesser beings
The really rich biuldaburg group and whoever believes in the Georgia guide stones. Needs to be beheaded. Don't eat the rich, just sell everything else that you can. And get out. Maybe donate to a good charity, and see if it reviels everyone's Tru nature, or intentions.
This is a good point. History has taught us that cotton production is very taxing on the soil. Look at Georgia in the USA. After a little over a century of large scale cotton production in soil that was ideal for it to begin with it got to the point where crops were failing all the time. Although Dr. Carver was able to turn it around there, cotton farmers there did have to adopt Dr. Carver's methods to really change things at the time.
@@davidtherwhanger6795 - a century ago a lot of USA farmers were growing hemp. The first Levi jeans were made of hemp. The CABAL couldn't make their zillions via hemp so a STATUTE was passed banning hemp. The farmers didn't realise the hemp was what the bar stewards called marijuana. But you probably know this. But the point I wanted to make was that hemp didn't exhaust the soil like cotton.
BRING BACK HEMP PRODUCTION !
Thanks to this environmentalist who educated the villagers to grow trees and technique of how to take care of them and increasing the greenery. He should be awarded a Noble prize.. ❤
He got the alternative peace prize 😉
*Nobel Prize
this has 8 thousand views, but the Will smith slap has over 1 billion. lol oh the humanity
Glad to see this video blew up! :D Well done everybody who watched it!
Thank you let's spread the message to save the soil 💚🤎
Well said 👏👏
We've reach 1.2 million views now since this comment 🙌 maybe we still have a chance to make it one billion! Move over Will Smith, mother nature has a message to save degraded soil.. lets go 🌿💚🤎
@@LeafofLifeWorld Fantastic news!! Great work, he's hoping for many more millions!! :D 👍👍👍😁
@@LeafofLifeWorld Great job guys, keep it up! 😊❤
That guy should be given noble prize! It's usually unknown people that change the world the most
Exactly each and everyone of us can make a difference to change the world
That is a good suggestion. I am tired of hearing about politicians getting Nobel Prizes for arranging a temporary cease fire in wars going back thousands of years. This is more in line with what I think the Nobel Prizes were meant for in the first place. Fundamentally changing how we do things to improve our lives.
@@davidtherwhanger6795 Tired of politics, say it again. We want something new
@@noloyisonopanjwa883 Agreed we all do 🙏
@@noloyisonopanjwa883 Well we will never be able to get rid of politics entirely. They crop up in everything we do. Office politics, HOA politics, business politics, etc.
I just would like for political leaders to stop getting awards for doing very little as it just cheapens the award. But it is award politics.
I hope Niger and all the other Sub Saharan African countries become successful!
Me too!
What about the North African countries, don't you wish the same for them?
The western world is behind destroyed from within. Thanks to 🇮🇱
@@listenup2882 yes I do!
@@listenup2882 theyre not black so he dosnt care i guess
Wow I am an Aussie who watches documentaries on everything especially greening the desert as Australia is mostly one big desert too, but I’ve never heard of this amazing man or the work he’s been doing in Africa! God bless him and the people of Niger as they have done so much great work in restoring their land. And yes he does deserve a Nobel prize! I really hope other African nations start using this excellent programme to save their lands. It’s amazing how the desert can be restored and lives changed for the better!🇦🇺♥️🙏🏽
Australia would be even easier to restore due to the artesian bore which the Gov refuses to open up..Literally could make the desrt bloom in no time at all...Not including the massive amounts of CLOUD seeding which has taken place in east const of Australia which has flooded much land but really in the wrong areas.
check google
This is such a beautiful transformation! This technique of Tony Rinaudo is a blessing and can be used to reclaim barren land, not just in Africa but elsewhere too. More governments should be adopting this technique.
He went there to make his name great, otherwise Niger people had planted more trees and they are still doing so,
This man's initiative truly deserves the Nobel Prize !
pruning is not a new technique.
@@cinnamonstar808 Exactly and he found Niger people planting trees,, he only went there to show off and take all the credit
@@cinnamonstar808 Planting a Forest in Sahara
Awww man , this guy and the farmers are literally changing the world 🌍 , ☮️
Wonderful to see the people working hard!
What N incredible news, this man should be recognize for his amazing work and bringing a better future to others. Thank you , we need to know of people doing good all over the world.
Thank you for this encouragement. I know this can be done. I have seen it elsewhere. My nonprofit REAP works in reforestation, agroforestry and agroecology. This has been my work for over 40 yrs.
Fantastic so glad to hear other people are doing the great work of agroforestry and reforestation, where is the work based? Feel free to send us more info to our email, leafoflifefilms@gmail.com
@@LeafofLifeWorld We are based in Georgia, US. but I have worked 7 countries in S.E. Asia, Central and South America,
Please sir let me have your contact as I would like to get more information about your work
@@brendamclean3033 great 👍 let’s change the system as we all depend on the soil
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As a Conservation Planner, I find this to be a very positive and unique approach. Even the US could and should adopt some of these measures. Instead farmers think that they have to farm edge of field to the other edge of field and not allowing any kind of buffer or fish/wildlife cover & habitat. Makes me mad
Gotta maximize that crop yield or you can't get richie rich!
@@BossMan-yu1og yes, in the United States everything revolves around maximum profit. It’s sad, our “capitalist” system destroys the environment like no other.
@@xoxo0073- You must’ve missed the environmental horror show that was exposed after the fall of the Soviet Union. Maybe check out the air quality in Beijing before you blame all the world’s ills on capitalism? Just sayin’.
This is so amazing.. a human with purpose can do any miracle..
I was brought to tears to see such a success story and a roadmap to continued success that not only helps improve the lives of the most vulnerable people and in addition improving the environment. Imagine 2.5 million people benefitting from FMNR. This is the way human beings should help each other.
Yes it is truly a huge miracle that is spreading around the world.
Love and care Planet Earth , and respect Nature 🌎🌏🌍 We can’t live without them !
This is amazing! I have been an environmentalist for 40 years so how can I never have heard about this? Wow! What a hopeful practice this is!
Its very hopeful !!!
it is basically a very successful implementation of agro-forestry.
A very good question, i would suggest the focus seems always to be to criticise western nations and call for taxation which in the end rarely helps anyone , least of all those at the heart of severe weather situations.
Congratulations! Please don't stop from planting more trees and turning deserts into forests. DON'T GIVE UP! Never give up!
Seeing the land becoming green and fertile made me cry.
Makes me so happy to see these great movements. FMNR can't be mentioned enough .
This is a beautiful thing to witness, life always finds a way.
Agreed life nature know best we must be stewards of the land now and let nature do its thing
this is a true Aussie hero and, like other Australians who already commented, I've never heard of him! He deserves a Nobel Prize for certain.
It is nice to see people making the planet more habitable for people. Amazing what wisdom can produce.
በጣም በጣም በጣም ነው የምናመሰግነው ሁላችሁም ለዚህ ሰራ አሰተዋፁ ላደረጋችሁ::Merci beaucoup tout vous la fait cette manifique travil. Thank you very much all you did these splendid work.!!!(*!*)🌍🌍🌍
This may be an old video, but I just read an article in National Geographic and what is presented here seems true and honest. Also according to National Geographic, before colonialism farmers in the Sahel, managed their trees, and the stumps left after some trees were cut down for wood. They did not pull the stumps completely up or clear cut large tracks trees for agriculture they, always left the stumps. These tree stumps, would regrow sprouts from the stumps. When the French colonized Niger, they intended for Niger to provide food commodities to sell on the open market. So they encouraged farmers to pull up stumps and then you would have neat lines of food commodity crops to sell. No shade and no nutrients returning to soil, when it rained the water would not penetrate to the water table, because the mechanism to allow it to happen was removed. All Niger needed, was to remember the roots (literally), living in the Sahel and building a civilization there is no easy feet, and these people did it, because they understood the cycles of Nature and all it took was to remember traditional farming techniques. Now all Africa and all Africans have to do is remember the food crops that sustained their civilizations and Kingdoms, and not see their traditional foods as peasant (poor people) food and Africa will truly return to its greatness. Here is hoping for that day, for all who will contend Africans bellow the Sahara were all hunter gather societies here are some links to dispel that myth. oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199389414.001.0001/acrefore-9780199389414-e-179
www.khanacademy.org/humanities/big-history-project/agriculture-civilization/first-cities-appear/a/the-origin-of-agriculture-in-africa
On the second link, the archeological record is constantly being updated and it is believe that agriculture (farming may have started much earlier), in any case it is good to remember ones roots and find a way to meld modernity with ancient practices. Its not a either or decision.
www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/how-farmers-in-earths-least-developed-country-grew-200-million-trees#:~:text=200%20million%20trees-,How%20farmers%20in%20Earth's%20least%20developed%20country%20grew%20200%20million,the%20Maradi%20region%20of%20Niger.
So grateful for these beautiful souls its everyones benefit from this ❤
It's so refreshing to see a land that we witnessed was going through a severe period of degradation and economic loss is now on course to thrive with vegetation which is likely to bring economic benefits but more importantly support local life. Hats off to all the Aussie chap, he's a good man. May Allah reward him.
I am really excited about the water collecting nets that are being used in Southwest Morocco to catch water for the desert.
What a great Documentary!
Ty 🙏
These initiatives are the need of this century and self sustainable mantra results hunger free African land.
Thank you for giving us this information. Very informative!
Thank you for your support, we agree its extremely valuable information, greening the desert is top priority and we are looking forward to covering more regenerative stories i hope you stayed tuned and let us know what you think!
This video is very interesting. Thank you for making it. I think you may have confused the word _hectare_ with the name _Hector_ . AFIK, they are not interchangeable, unless you're dealing with a very large Hector.
That made me smile 😁
HECTOOOOOR!
I live in an environment that is the antithesis of the Sahara yet there was a lot of take away for me, from this video. Thank you.
I live in Alaska. Which strange enough, much of it is in fact is classified as a desert. There's not a lot of precipitation. What we do get tends to stays.
Tending to our enviroment and stewarding our wilderness is part of being an Alaskan. These are principles I grew up with. My dad just called it good stewardship. I don't think it should be relegated to people living in remote and diverse environments. Help the world you live in grow. Be part of the world where ever you are. It changes you.
Amazing transformation of desert arid land into productive agriculture. Thanks to the Australian selfless effort imagined changed lives of millions of people in Niger. God bless you Sir prayers for more blessings to bless more countries in Africa. May your tribe increase hats off Sir.
What an amazing person. these are the types of people we need to celebrate. I would be immensely proud to have created such positive change in the world, it seems strange that he is not as well know as he should be.
Climate change activists have their own hidden agendas and this is not one of them.
Niger people should be celebrated for transforming their land,, not a foreigner who found locals working then claim all the credit
Thank you for the encouragement. I know this can be done. I have seen it. I work with a nonprofit REAP. We work in reforestation, agroforestry and agroecology. This has been my work for over 40 yrs.
Thank you for letting us know, so glad to hear they are doing good work to help with agroforestry and regreening the desert
Encourage others. Take participation of others around you. It will be big movement. Thank you for your work.
God bless Tony Rinaudo. That man is a hero.
What a beautiful video, I’m happy to learn this is happening! FMNR is a perfect example of “teach a man to fish”.
Excellent job. Every country should follow this formula
One picture was taken in dry season, and the other one was taken in rain season.
The land turned to green.
Miracle!!!
And the trees appeared miraculously only in the raining season…
@@vmaier3000 my mistake. You can turn desert green. Australia America, China, Middle East ......
Go!!
YES, FAKE NEWS
Amazing video! Thank you very much for sharing
Thank you for your support. We also love what you are doing regenerating the land and creating an oasis in the seni arid desert!
I hope Paani Foundaition and other foundations from India can help this country with water harvest methods because India has been very successful in transforming dry land to productive farmland via water harvesting and management for the last decades.
Thats right, it would be amazing to see what can be done with water capturing In the Sahara desert
Yes they use a system devloped by Bill Mollison called Permaculture, I think the Paani foundation call it something else but it's self sustaining, produces tons of food and the more established it gets the less input needed, as an added bonus it re establishes wildlife!!
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Hats off to the dedicated people who make this happen. Wish them the best as they move forward. Thank you for sharing.
So inspiring! It's crazy how thousands of people can damage but one individual can bless thousands.
We will like to add this to our main Planet Cents playlist to inspire more people. ~Team PlanetCents
It must be from lack of similar situation faced in Australia which also lacks water significantly. This is amazing! I hope Africa would be restored to a green and savanna heaven that nurturers all the native wild animals and its people of Africa. Thank you for sharing this!! Eye opener! 💚
Keep the good work going World Vision Christian charity 😇✨
Thanks for uploading
Eliminate all of the people and it will eventually revert back to its natural state
Man and nature working together: a great combination!
Highly inspiring. We need more people like him. Well done 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
It is all propaganda. You really think that the U N, that want to kill off half the planet, is really going to help people have better food, so the can multiply? No my friend, you need to visit Niger, and stop believing all this BS
Thanks for this important video! Such sustainable methods could be introduced worldwide , even in so called devoloped countries to regreen degraded areas… when used to spread knowledges, internet becomes a blessing….
Giving local people the knowledge and the means to be proactive in improving the situation for themselves and their progeny is far better than having them wait in food lines and knowing their grandchildren will do the same. I will be watching for updates on the success of programs like this. Perhaps the ingenuity and hard work of the people today can undo the results of the greed and shortcuts of past generations.
Thank you we want to be able to stay up to date on stories and solutions like these. We appreciate your encouragement, we hope you have a moment to read the pin comment on ways in which your input can help support this. Thank you!
I don't think so, but it's a nice idea.its to late for humanity and people, mother earth is done with us, and nobody who understands what it is to respect and share to the good of the one who gives everything life. Just like the indigenous peoples of mother earth and their relations with everything alive. From a tree, to a rock. From salmon, to the bears that live though the winter by fatting up, so they can sleep all winter by hibernation. Did you know that before Columbus, there were 60 million indigenous people in the Americas,? Along with 90 million bison running were ever they wanted to. Thanks to the great spirit for saving just enough of each. So they'll be ready to start again, at what they had already done for tens of thousands of years before Columbus. And mother earth just can't seem to get rid of old white men fast enough. Should have done that along long time ago.
Kerry Grant luvs mother earth and not pludoctats fracking narssistic psyopathic autocrats.
Give a man a fish, and feed him for a day. Give him fishing equipment and teach him how to fish, and feed him for a lifetime!
@@kerrymarris4260
_"And mother earth just can't seem to get rid of old white men fast enough. Should have done that along long time ago"_
I feel so bad for you. You are so br@!nw@shed by CRT that you are making such r@cist statements without any tr0uble.
_"Did you know that before Colombus, there were 60 million indigenous people in the Americas,? Along with 90 million bison running were ever they wanted to."_
I don't know why you're bringing Columbus into this as if he was the one who wiped out the natives.
Yes, it is estimated that there were 50 to 100 million people in the Americas but 90% of them got wiped out by ep!dem!cs not by the conquests of Columbus.
Also, it is estimated that there were 30-60 million bisons during Columbus' discovery not 90 million.
_"So .... at what they had been doing for tens of thousands of years before Colombus."_
According to historians, the natives have been in America for almost 15000 years and it was centuries after their settlement that they spread and developed into a variety of tribes with different practices and cultures. So it isn't quite right to say that they have been doing something *_'for tens of thousands of years'._*
Keeping big agro firms away is what's good for the environment because they are just about how much money they can take for their rich shareholders and are not locally connected. Local farmers working together in cooperations is the way forward.
I love educational videos like this one. I enjoy learning about the possible solutions.
Thank you! So glad you found this educational, we really do hope this information is useful to those trying to regenerate the desert aswell as create more regenerative agrictural practices!
Me too 🙂
Fun Fact: The Sahara actually use to be lush and green just 7,000 years ago too. Glad to see it coming around again.
Go look at a satellite map there is no way unless it starts raining there all the time or they bring in some type of big time irrigation system.
@@ottomueller4425 There is a lot of water under Sahara By using photovoltaic this water can be extracted and used when it's fresh or desalted when it is not. The hero Gadafi have built artificial river he has been assassinated by the french and the las part of the project has not been completed. The regime under the boots of the banksters do not care about the "who are nothing" like macron the french president call the 99% people.
Only the country that are free enough to have relations with China can successfully bring such big projects
Why some researchers believe the Earth may have shifted on its axis. This would explain why it is dry now, the great flood, and a lot of other things.
Another fun fact: It was my great great great """grandfather, a lumberjack, that turned the Sahara Forest into the Sahara Desert. Oops.
All jokes aside, I worry this is making beds in a burning house, due to Global Warming. No one seems to be glad to drive less. Public Transportation is a dirty word in America.
You know, if we 'designed' cities in America, like they do everywhere in Europe, around public transportation, less energy would get wasted.
@@ottomueller4425 They did, they bought land in the midwest, and drained the water underneath. Our Aquifers are now empty, and we have the desert here now.
Look at the same satellite map to confirm what I say. It is estimated it will take 200 years for them to fill again.
Nobel prize should be given to these type of men.
Congratulation Tony and people of Niger, keep up the good work
We thank the people of niger for their great work
Wonderful initiative by this concerned man! Benefiting the planet n the ppl of Africa in particular...I hope it continues n goes from strength to strength👌🏿
Thanks for bringing this truly uplifting story to us. Great work!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Amazing video. Thanks you so much. Over 3 million views yet the channel only has 80 k subscribers… you deserve more!
Amazingly done, Mr. Tony Rinaudo and the farmers working with him. I'm glad the gov. is also supporting this method.
Tony joining Niger people doing their work not the other way round
GROW THE TREES!! This is great. I find the greening of deserts to be fascinating and encouraging. 👍
I’m so glad to hear about this. Many years ago in the 1980s I saw an Oscar winning animated short story from a 1950 French short story: THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES narrated by Christopher Plummer.
It told of one lone man who planted trees in a desert in France and over 30 years the whole landscape changed and rebloomed into a magnificent forest with water and plenty… This makes me hopeful for our earth for once.
Reforestation is a big part of curing climate change and reducing carbon pollution. Trees and plants consume and absorb carbon to live and grow and produce oxygen as their byproduct. So many good things happen.
In a world filled with doom and gloom, this is such a wonderful ray of light.
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Awsome and great to see that the UN and EU are helping to support this amazing initiative.
Agreed projects like this need more funding
I assume this is working under drought conditions? If so, this is amazing. A lot of hard work! Hopefully sustainable with climate change!
Yes this area can go through periods of extreme drought or extreme rainfall causing severe flooding
Droughts have occurred in Nigeria during the periods 1914, 1924, 1935, 1943, 1951-1954, 1972-1973 and 1991-1995, 2010
The droughts of the 70s caused alot of degradation thats when Tony Rinaudo started working there and pioneering Forest Management Natural Regeneration FMNR
Read genisis, sweat from the brow is a blessing..
@@LeafofLifeWorld Niger and Nigeria are two neighbouring countries.
@@grootjohnmorrison4165 Has to do with science not religion
@@readyforknowing3009 For some of us, our religious beliefs require us to take what is learned from science to become proper stewards and not users of the earth. Mutually inclusive and not exclusive in that sense. What this video shows is what my faith beliefs he is meant to do. Take his gifts, talents and mind to become the best stewards possible! This video is inspiring.
This is truly a shocking video, bringing more possibilities to the world, from deserts to livable cities, where in addition to the efforts of residents, the assistance of strong government support is also required. It is worth learning and learning from every country
This is one of those times I wish I could click the like button more than once.
Interesting...
Thanks for the information! Great video!
Agreed its very interesting and the technique is changing lives for the better, this region is very critical and people here suffer from extreme drought that effects them greatly regenerative projects like this improve livelihoods and prevent the desert from further expanding
What an amazing job these people are doing you are all doing great I've always loved trees all my life just The greenery of the desert is it's like magic and I know magic doesn't really happen that it's really the magic of the people who are planting the trees taking care of them I'm honored to have watched this video I wish you only the best and congratulations on what you have successfully done take care
I think trees are magical
Changing the climate of the Sahara could have an impact on the Hurricanes that hit the east and gulf coast of the U.S. Our hurricanes come right off the Atlantic coast of the Sahara
no! it will not... EARTH DOES NOT WORK that way.
#2 Timeline is a thing. This project wont be finished by Tuesday. The USA can fit inside the Sahara.
AFRICA = BIG! real big.
#3 Political land and their longevity is a thing... hold on... let me ask Prussia or the Ancient Egyptian or Yugoslavia their take on this. You honestly think Florida will be there? (and I live in FL) Banks dont want to write a 30 year mortgage nowhere on beachfront property due to climate change. 🌊🌊 We are in the same battle as Venice, Italy.
#4 Bad climate = People move. Humans dont stay around for hostile climates. Just look at the top largest countries and look at their population
Russia |cold and empty
Canada | cold and empty
Australia | whatever and empty
Gives the world new hope! Most inspiring! Well done Tony and govt of Niger!!
Really proud of my bros & sis from Niger. Their determination is stronger than the desert 👏🇳🇪🌍
Thank you people of Niger for your work 🙏
They just needed to be taught the process of growing. That president/government is no good for that country.
The only chance the Sahara turns farmland is the increase of CO2 content in the air. With the global warming stupidity floating around, there is no chance for that.
Why? They didn't do anything. It was a white-man from Australia. Sign, you guys always need white-men to free you or help you.
@@maskedtotellmystory2649 THOSE PRESIDENTS ARE ALL OVER AFRICA,WE ARE GETTING RID OF THEM
So very encouraging.
Couldn't agree more! We need more regenerative agriculture and sustainable initiatives to help restore desertified land!
How awesome to see a desert become beautifully green and growing! Kudos to all! Praise the Lord!
Beautiful project 🌱🌱🌱 One plant =one life, Thanks ❤❤❤
This is wonderful! The Creative Society is full of caring people like you. They have many videos trying to wake us up to what is happening around the world.
Thank you for letting us know
Marvelous task. The transformation of the arid land turning into green vegetation is filling the soul with joy.
This person is an angel.
I bet if you did this right now the trees would be able to absorb more carbon than we can put in the atmosphere not the other way around
Yo this is dope! I never knew about this, but it looks very transformative. Talk about making a positive impact on the environment! 😍