How the UN is Holding Back the Sahara Desert
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- Опубліковано 6 тра 2024
- Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys with the UN World Food Programme to the Northern border of Senegal to see an innovative land recovery project within the Great Green Wall of Africa that is harvesting rainwater, increasing food security, and rehabilitating the ecosystem.
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00:02 UN and villagers bring back barren wasteland in Africa
01:26 The Sagal River serves as a vital border and potential defense line against the Sahara Desert.
02:53 The Great Green Wall aims to halt the southern expansion of the Sahara Desert.
04:31 The Great Green Wall aims to protect the Sahel from the encroachment of the Sahara Desert.
06:01 Half Moons help retain water and rehabilitate land
07:30 Redefining water management in the Sahel
08:55 Regenerating the Sahel into a productive ecosystem
10:29 The UN project is transforming devastated areas into resilient food-producing locations.
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Not only is it saving degraded land, feeding people, and recharging the water tables, it’s keeping young folks in rural areas and building communities. Fabulous work all around. If more governments can start projects like this it could make a huge impact worldwide.
I was actually thinking a for profit model would accelerate this much faster. Imagine being able to invest your money in a locally run company that restores land and pushes back the desert. Government is slow and wasteful. Business can move quickly.
@@cupbowlspoonforkknif Just if there is profit to be made. Particularly in the early stages like this, the WFP certainly has its place
The UN is not a legitimate government. The best thing a REAL government can do to help people is to leave them alone.
@@cupbowlspoonforkknifThen create a business, drop your money and be "quickly". Nothing stops you from creating a business
Keep the corrupt governments out of it .
Honestly, this looks like one of the few projects that have clearly defined goals and processes for how to get there while remaining sustainable for local people to continue without heavy outside funding. To all working on this, great job!
This is the best video I watched this year so far. so many criminals, stupid videos all over and info like this one restores the faith in humanity for sure.
yes but whats very important is that for the rainforests they rely on the fertilization from the Sahara. If you were to turn the sahara green or a bit of it. its gonna have an effect on that.
@@hotspot1564 could you elaborate a bit more? Never heard this thing
@@hotspot1564 True, but the efforts to create this great green wall are to push back against the 10% of growth (1% a decade) that the Sahara has had over the past century. The rainforests' fertilization did just fine in the 19th century with the Sahara being 10% less.
+1 ! I've seen videos concluding the great green wall as a failure of a project, as in many places there just has not been great organization or sustained focus because of other issues occurring. But from this I feel like success is possible
Bringing back life to the land is remarkable, but bringing back hope to the people is indescribable. Absolutely outstanding, thanks for sharing this.
This is good, but the earth is greening because of the high CO2 plants grow less water, while it is raining more because of higher temperatures. Growing plants has never been easier
True True FABULOUS NEWS ✌️
It's like watching documentaries like back in the day, i really love watching these types of videos before work. It wakes me up alongside with my morning coffee. Wish them the best.
I'm reading this while taking coffee before work....so heartwarming...🥰
Yeah me too
Same here
This should be on the major news channels to show that despite all the destruction in the world, there is a lot of positive stuff happening. Thank you to everybody working in these projects!
Wouldn’t make them money
the earth is in a greening period right now
Unfortunately most news outlets are only interested in scandals, what some 'celebrity' is up to or some disaster/tragedy. Good news stories are not of interest to them.
The optics on this are bad
if it doesnt bleed it doesnt read
Thank you so much, Andrew, for joining our team in Senegal and highlighting WFP's crucial work that is supporting Sahel communities to restore the landscapes that sustain them, reduce humanitarian needs, create jobs, and make the desert green again. 💚 We look forward to hosting you again soon!
hi
love yall
of all the UN agencies, you the realest.
You guys from UN are creepying me out. Money swamps!
All big organizations are corrupt machines in the hands of the powerful.
Tell me why the EU and other partner organizations even make it harder for private people to grow their own veggies, when they want to do permaculture themselves, which works best on small scale projects. You do some of these PR things on the large scale, but for us normal permaculture enthusiasts, everything gets worse and worse. In the end I prefer NO big organizations "rescuing" our planet, power to the people, not the big money swamps!
The only UN department that is doing some actual work, good job
This is truly amazing. Not only are you saving these lands, but also providing jobs, and stopping migration.
Imagine the progress we could make as a civilization without war
With jesus as king instead of kings we could
@@publicdomain3378my Jesus is holier than yours, I declare war on your jesus
@@Acuzzio My jesus is pointier! But i dont see why we need our Mexicans to fight, Jesus.
We won't go anywhere without wars. It may be sad, but fear drives us to action, without it we become lazy and find ourselves in a place like Europe, where life in its Western countries is worse than twenty years ago. The overwhelming majority of technologies are created so that others do not overtake us and crush us, and what is already outdated or unnecessary is used by society.
People wage wars for reasons, it's part of the cycle of life
I absolutely love that this project solves a problem for a people, but still puts the solution into the hands of the population that needs the help. This is creating a livelihood and agency for those individuals that need it most. The biggest problem with many non-profit organizations (NPOs) is that they come in a just hand out resources. Handing out resources is absolutely fine in an emergency, but it is not sustainable. Handing a long-term solution in the DIRECT hands of those affected is a way to build back stability and autonomy for a people. This project even goes a step forward and helps humanity as a whole from an environmental standpoint. Bravo!
I agree with every word you said
😊sim, ensina a pescar para pegar o peixe
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. You teach him to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. You teach him and his whole village how to responsibly fish and how to give back to the earth instead of taking from it. And you feed them all for generations to come.
this is an amazing paragraph for my English Class too, Thank you All!
"un is holding it back|" because deserts are part of the ecosystem... wtf u think will happen if sahara desert dissapears and becomes green, where does the desert move?
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dont people understand geology and biology anymore ? good luck with the natural disaster waves europe/russia
Outstanding! Permaculture heals the land and our hearts.
If we heal the soil, we heal the planet!😊
@Ni-dk7ni Gabe Brown is Patti's uncle. The times are achanging.
@Ni-dk7ni ...have you ever met a U.S. farmer? Some of the most educated guys I've ever met.
@@will0ughbyyet they still cant even devote an acre to Permacultre because Corporations own it.
@@prophecyrat2965 Make that shit illegal.
Wow. Like that. You can even see the pride of the people for what they archieved. You took dead, barren land and turn it into a green Oasis with your own work. Thats a very positive source of self esteem.
This is a WONDERFUL PROJECT!!!!! This program saves the soul of a people as well as the land!!! GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!!!!!
The fact that we can restore such degraded line is a fantastic effort, well done to all involved.
Those involved.. which ofc do not include African Americans.
@@Kurry34 just appreciate that the people are getting food?
I know right! We nowadaya tend to get so pessimistic about future.
@@Moonlight12315 let's not pretend their isn't a reason for that
You misused a comma.
Some countries think that the more tall buildings means success but here you are the real thing bringing land to life all the best.
Which countries are those? The ones teaching Africans how to preserve their own land 😂
@@Jcococola yeah some people don't think further than vague abstract statements.
@@Jcococola that wasn't the point..... - I actually watched the video and heard Black Africans talking about their own projects and work in their land. Let us return all the land to indigenous land holders and land protectors. The conventional drought is poisonous and restrictive to more freedom than all alternatives.
also in u.s (ppl think its best country) they say you need pesticide so your crops can survive and would be healthy. :D
@@JcococolaTeaching? This is the UN, it's not about a specific country and his point was that doing the impossible by bringing land to life is a great feat regardless of who did it.
Don't get triggered like a child
This kind of videos and projects give me hope. The things we can achieve when we get together! ❤🙌
Wow!! This is something that lifted me up...I was going into the darkness day by day by knowing the cruelty, foolishness and harsh reality of humans worldwide...Thank God good people are still alive on this planet...this encouraged me to do something actively for nature...Salute to these people
Man this kind of turnaround is universally inspiring. How cool is it that its even possible to bring life back to the ground in a place so dead and dry. That river is a gift
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Author here: The Green-Wall, could it always have been done, no matter the Time, no matter the Era? Does it make sense for my Timetraveling Protagonist to go around and tell people to plant Trees exc essively on the Border to Deserts?
@@slevinchannel7589yup. As long as you have the knowledge.
They didn't bring life back to the ground, they stuck life on top of it and are artificially maintaining it with manure from farmed animals. Animals that were fed food from somewhere else. They have done nothing at all to rehabilitate the most important part of this ecosystem, and have no means to pay the life tab.
Life costs Life. You can't start from nothing. You have to bring the soil back to life so it can digest organic waste. And that thriving soil is what needs to form the foundation of any Life you want to sustain above it.
What they are literally doing is digesting remote life, and using that digested pulp to fuel an unsustainable agricultural model that has very nearly destroyed all terrestrial life on Earth. Everything is dead because we chopped it all up to create artificial ecosystems that support vast herds of city-bound human livestock.
Life costs Life. We've only managed to open a tab and rack up a massive environmental bill. It has to be paid back. In full.
Parts of the Sahara were once flooded/green and turned into desert without human intervention. Surely this will happen again and again all over Earth regardless of our effort.
@@slevinchannel7589 if not exactly how presented here, probably. Like they mentioned, a lot of these agricultural practices are indigenous practices that have been around for hundreds of years in some form or another
The river should become cleaner too, less silting, as this Great Green Wall is built! Congratulations to all of the people who participate in building it.
Very true, besides cleaner river, it will improve soil moisture and in the longer run ground aquifer too
and less water because it's been diverted by humans
Well the silt kind of give those plants some nutrients
@@mrsnayarlhats4242 There is very little to no nutrients in sandy silt. Possibly some salts and nitrogen which is good for fruiting plants but that's about it.
@@forbaldo1 Diverting water this way doesnt reduce the amount of water, its just slows the flow. If the water takes the shortest path to the sea it helps no one and nothing but the river swells and floods. The slowing of water through making pits just allows the water to sink in the ground and stay longer instead of drying out or flowing to the sea.
It does not change the amount of water but increases how much of it can be used by humans and the wildlife, wildlife doesnt necessarily do well in farmland but it does even worse in a wasteland
this is precisely what these people need. not money and aid that gets used up in a few months and then makes them dependable. truly spectacular, congratulations for the hard work and thank you for your efforts!
The most amazing thing I've ever seen, I can hardly believe my eyes and ears. What a collaboration of people and Nature! I am in complete awe.
This is the realest, truest way to reclaim our lives - hands on! You are all real humans in service of life. May we all be inspired to create same
wherever we live.
Incredible video, series, channel and dude. This deserves fifty million views.
Thanks rare earth. I appreciate it 🙏
@@amillison I mean it sincerely. Please never stop making these unbelievably high-quality reminders of our capacity for positive change.
yall gotta collab, both great channels
@@RareEarthSeries There is no stopping, trust me. I'm just getting started. This video working with the WFP represents a new threshold. I am working on future visits to their even larger scale work in other Great Green Wall countries. I love your work also!
get them to grow jerusalem artichoke for food@@amillison
Projects like this one really do repair the world - ecologically, socially and economically as well. Thanks for your inspiring work Andrew!
Molding nature to human's will is not repairing the world. This is what leftist lunatics tell us all day long. But when it suits them and it looks green, it become good.
i know it sounds crazy, but it would actually hurt us in the long run if all of the deserts got overgrown like this
the world is already repairing itself. we're in a massive greening period.
@@sancte3982 If people who don't eat enough eat until their belly explode, it'll be really bad. Do you feel like telling every hungry person that they could die if they eat that much?
I don't get what's your point?..
@@sdwqbvlwdslbvlbwflbunlwbf i dont get yours either?
I agree it will be really bad if people ate so much their bellies explode, but i did not talk about food.
Deserts play a vital role in the global climate system.
They contribute to the regulation of atmospheric circulation, they can influence weather patterns. Overgrowth could potentially alter these patterns, impacting not only the local climate but also having broader regional and global effects.
That's awesome. I almost cried, that's touching human effort, we need more of the world thinking like this. BAE supports ❤️
As someone with an archaeology background this is something I love to see. Using pre-industrial and indigenous and even ancient. almost forgotten techniques that complement nature to rejuvenate a landscape without hurting it further.
There are so many problems with global conceptions of development, with relying on new technologies, with politics and finances. Indeed sometimes the solution is something that has been there for a long time already. And sometimes it just needs some rebranding (think of intercropping and food forests as solutions to the problems of monoculture for instance).
❤
@@thaDjMauz Nitrogen fertilizers, which flow down the Mississippi and end up in the Gulf of Mexico, have destroyed most of the coral reefs north of Cuba. 50% of Earth's oxygen comes from coral reefs. Many monocropping farms are losing soil and are becoming deserts. The only ones succeeding are the huge, international distributors.
I actually want to get into archeology, still just an undergraduate. Any tips? Is it as easy as walking up to a dig site and asking for a job moving dirt and learning the rest over time?
@@Charles-hq7cethey don’t let you in until you find at least 3 dinosaurs
Imagine if our governments instead of investing in wars, invested in these humanitarian/ecological projects! The world would be a better place.
I agree but we all know that politicians only do anything for political gains and for profit
There's more money in creating wars tho . Logically speaking
But I hear u , you have a point
I think we all wish governments thought past money, but I see your point.
We Ethiopians also fade up of war, the noble prise winner has endless war projects for the sake of staying in power.
The world surely would be a better place for us All to live in.
Indigenous people of African origin should also be able to come up with ideas like this to complement each other, and there would be a revolution in the World in how we live and propagate life.🎉
I'm from Asia, Pakistan. I'm very proud of you guys. You guys are working wonders for humanity.
I am very grateful
Its funny I have never thought of India/Pakistan as Asian. Part of the subcontinent. The people are so much more different to Asian peoples in general.
@@user-om1pp5qe5z Ok. So what category do you put people from Pakistan and India into? I think those who have called the people of Pakistan and India Asian. They are wiser than you.
Still, I want to know your position.
@@imgoraya He wasn't trying to be rude, i think. Many people still associate Pakistan with only middle east (they think Africa)... Which is wrong. Its the same with Egypt: some people don't know that it sits on 2 continents ;) (Africa and Asia).
@@imgoraya No i wasn't being rude. I think they are different. Original. I class Indians/Pakistanis/Bangladeshis as being from the Subcontinent.
I think your Origin differs greatly from the rest of Asia. Different ancient migration from Africa.
Oral tradition of some peoples in India remind me of the oral tradition of another people that probably migrated further on.
@@user-om1pp5qe5z I think you're right. I replied a little harder. But I should have understood your point salute.
And now I think your view is right.
i just got off of very exhausting work. seeing this makes me so happy that there are still people hoping to make the world a lot healthier and it is thriving. thank you so much to all of you
So good to see what I work on in Kenya being featured in this video. Working on restoring degraded soils and bringing back lost forest cover. It's about building resilience and producing nutrient dense foods.
Amazing work you doing there 🙏
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Вы молодцы, продолжайте в том же духе!
Well done mate, good luck for the future.
Videos like this keeps my faith in humanity restored. Thank you, may the green wall be a success for future generations.
Actually opposite, the poorest, least developed country can do this, but "modern world" cant do even bare minumum
I am author. I also want my protagonist to specifically improve the financial situation of the kingdom he lands in
but Farming, Inflation-Reduction and all of the Economcy doesnt seem to have as simple rules as as 'House burns? Use Water!'
Less catastrophizing, more planting seeds :)
I can't begin to describe how absolutely awe-struck I am at this moment. Such phenomenal work. I can't wait to finish my degree and join this amazing cause.
The great green wall is probably one of my favourite mega-projects ever. It tackles so many problems, from agricultural to societal, its amazing.
Watched it with my morning coffee, and got over whelmed with joy and HOPE.
In all the sad and bad news, this injection of HOPE for us all, made my day.
In Scandinavia we know, that when we all work together, we CAN make miracles.
Go Senegal! Keep proving us right.
Peace and love from Denmark
Stop drinking coffee if u respect and love life
@@mercesletifer52 lol, shut up. What's next? Stop breathing and leave more oxygen for other life forms?
@@mercesletifer52 I'm Scandinavian, Dear. Someone in my nearest surroundings might die, if I don't get my Nicaraguan, Organic, Fair Trade coffee FIRST thing in the morning.
- Or I'd die from withdrawal symptoms before Noon.
@@mercesletifer52 How is this even related?
@@ane-louisestampe7939Sweden banned coffee once, in the 1700s. Imagine that!
I would like to acknowledge pioneers like Yacouba Sawadogo. The greening of the Sahel and the techniques used are a huge part of his legacy. For anyone who hasn't seen it the documentary "The man who stopped the dessert" is a fascinating story of Yacouba's work and I learnt loads.
Thank you, I will look for that documentary
Yes it was masterpice that time event scientist doesnt dare to green the desert
I was literally about to mention him He started the half moon planting style that saves water.
Thanks for this information. I knew only about Tony Rinaudo.
Yacouba also called his technique the Zill (can't remember how to spell it)Technique which is an ancient practice, besides the half moon, he also used the trenches with rocks to capture running water in flat places as well as using termites for rain water capture as well . There's another man in Zimbabwe who also developed other rain water techniques, he was fired from a railroad company and was given some depleted devoid of life piece of land which he transformed into vast and lush permaculture place.
This stuff makes me so incredibly happy and reminds me that there's more good in the world than bad. To everyone working on this, good job! And thank you Andrew for bringing attention to it all in a well-crafted video.
Props to Yacouba Sawadogo who start it long ago before UN
I'm so happy to see, that the project is still going on. I was in Senegal in August 2013 to participate in the project. Some amazing people in an amazing country working on an amazing project. Greetings from Denmark :)
Oh wow, that sounds so cool! Did you volunteer with an organization? I would love to do this
Yeah can you tell us how? I have been looking to join this project in the past, but the only website I could find was literally saying 'we don't want volunteers at this stage of the project". I'd love to throw a few months of my life into this project, it seems fun and educational and very satisfying.
You must be wanting to revisit that place. It's always a kind of homecoming.
this is the best news Ive heard in a long long time. hopefully this will make the region more hospitable for erevyone living there.
it's just a marketing gimmick unless they solve the "sustainability" problem by rehabilitating the Rhizosphere and establishing an ecosystem that can fully digest organic inputs. The vast bulk of living biomass in a terrestrial ecosystem lies not above the soil, but up to around a ~meter below it. This video shows absolutely nothing about the fertilizer source or the plan to replace the nutrients being extracted by agriculture. If they are using agro chemical solutions or digesting a foreign living ecosystem in order to feed this green wall it's just shifting the harm somewhere else. This green wall has to function as a complete ecosystem, or it will fail.
@@ZennExile isn't this a start? How do we go to the sustainability without starting
@@KAVANKARIAPPA if you want to build a skyscraper where do you start? Above the ground or below it? What do you think would happen if you started from the top, or the middle, instead?
This same reality applies to sustainable ecosystems. The foundation of them must be established in order for the skyscraper we see above ground to remain standing.
The foundation of all terrestrial ecosystems is the digestive gut found in the top ~meter below the surface called the Rhizosphere. That gut has to be continuously digesting as much life as it sustains. That's Life's bargain. Life costs life and the entire tab has to be paid.
@@ZennExileI'm sure they didn't do all this without knowing the basic stuff. How do you think we improved our knowledge from generation that skyscraper needs a strong foundation. Somebody started it and failed in construction. Let them do the trial and error. They might fail but they will learn a new thing or two.
@@KAVANKARIAPPA you being sure is as absolutely meaningless as this entire project will be if they don't get it right the first time. And the most advanced players in the agricultural game have been getting it so wrong, for so long, it's causing a rapid rise in atmospheric carbon and accelerating the planet toward what's shaping up to be a mass extinction event as bad as any ever recorded.
How the Rhizosphere works has been largely ignored in favor of replacing it with artificial fertilization, which in turn further poisoned the land.
Industrial Agriculture itself is almost entirely functioning as the technological replacement for everything the Rhizosphere is supposed to be doing because the Rhizosphere has not been well understood until very recently, within the last decade.
But that's not sustainable, as every environmental expert on the planet fully agrees. The Rhizosphere is the majority bulk of active terrestrial life, and there's a cost to every calorie of life extracted from that system. It's another entire calorie of life.
Life costs life. All the life you take has to be replaced. Otherwise that ecosystem is dying. Even if you can make it look very healthy and vibrant on the surface.
I miss Robin as much as anyone else, but I sure wish he'd have skipped that Fern Gully movie. It is causing a very lasting blind spot in the general understanding of living ecosystems by putting vastly more emphasis than it should on trees.
This is so healing to see!!! So glad good people continue to do good things! Bless you all!
WOW I had no idea this kind of program was in place. Very interesting. I hope this program is a success for years to come!
That's some amazing job! As Brazilian forester engineer, my eyes well up seeing something like this.Thanks for sharing it.
When Brazil becomes a desert will you still be excited?
@@Saxxin1 ?
@@Saxxin1And you have ever look up things before acknowledging whatever the TV man tells you? Go to Google Maps and tell me how much the trees are missing. Don't forget most of the wood go illegally to the US and EU, after the extraction is turn into grazing fields. Ignorance can be shameless sometimes!
Not even mention UN is using a farming system create in Brasil in the Sahess, the Nº1 in the World in terms of food production. If you own land on the Amazon you're force by the State to preserve 80% of the land, meaning no deforestation without any compensation from the gov. or you, mindless foreigner that believes what the TV man has to say.
The reason your TV man tells you lies about the Amazon is because his boss sponsors are interesting in the biodiversity of the forest.
I truly feel ashamed for Europeans and Americans talking about things that they are clueless about it.
@@MrViniciusgrisI think he means, Brazil is doing the opposite, massive deforestation. Or is that not true?
@@pursuepower4011 Hello! Brazilian environmental engineer here, this year we had a decrease of 60% compared to last year, it was the lowest in 6 years. In fact, during 2022 Brazil was responsible for around 40% of global deforestation, but we're gradually returning to normal, I hope.
I hope that they will carry out similar projects in other at-risk areas to prevent similar degradation, such as southern Spain and many other countries around the Mediterranean. Thank you Andrew for a spectacular report!
Such projects have been on-going for some decades and with no small success. China, India and Russia to name a few. Europe has also been planting trees like no tomorrow.
Only the United States are stupid enough to not be planting. - greetings, from the US.
@@PhilJonesIIIIndia has been a stand out with some of these projects. If i recall, there is one in progress that has largely been done by just one man. Goes to show what kind of change is possible.
Spain and the midditerranean can pay for this own greening.
@@JimmyRussle Yes, not a few people like that. It makes me sad that the media seems determined to hand out bad news at every turn while ignoring the significant progress and the armies of people working tirelessly to make the world a better place.
Such a timely reminder of the need for us westerners to remain humble and not think that Western science and agriculture have all the solutions.
There is such a wealth of knowledge and wisdom to be found in a culture's history: what to do and what NOT to do.
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western sience is amazing, the greed can turn things badly though. one thing is sure, nowhere should be starvation
Hey Andrew! Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷 love your job!!! Senegal it's a interesting country for found untold stories.
We need more hopeful videos like this in our media. Less doom and more about how real change is being made. I think that is the key to getting more young people on board with contributing to positive change.
This video drained a solid 10% of my existential dread, thank yall very much for the captivating video
Yeah, it really does wonders for one's sails. My family and I live in Vietnam and therefore don't have to worry about an insanely massive desert, but my wife has so many aunts, uncles, and cousins involved in farming that it makes me happy that those farmers in the Sahel are doing such great work.
@@BrentwoodFamilyinVietnam farmers in any capacity should be praised for their relentless and back breaking work 🙏 strength be with them for a more beautiful tomorrow!
@@ninjacreeper541 That's why I'm so happy to work with so many farmers :). Filming them and working with them is really rewarding.
Grow up doomer
There's a lot of terrible things going on today, but there's just as many great things going on. I think that even if the great things are smaller, there are a lot more of them than the terrible things.
This is genuinely one of the coolest, more inspirational things I've ever seen. And the illustration timelapses are so cool. Excellent work all the way around on this.
Brilliant is an understatement. Keep up the great work folks!
Literally one of the most important things happening on earth. Thanks for sharing their story.
It's so inspiring to see how hard those people are working and how productive their work is!
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That actually brought tears to my eyes. So much of the world is concerned with using and destroying. It reaffirms my hope in humanity to see someone building and transforming the Earth in a positive way.
The bird on 7:04 is such a peaceful moment and literally a sign of achievement and something to be proud of. It‘s the small things like that, that shows that nature is coming back & is thankful.
Thank you Andrew and Team for publishing this video. Keep up the great work !
This is wonderful. Look at the community pulling together. I would love to be a part of a project like this.
I’m from Mauritania and believe this is not just about the environment this actually is giving people hope. Thanks 🙏
Really cool, thought world food programme was just giving away food to help communities survive without much focus to develop them, but this approach that only uses knowledge to rebuild an agriculture self sufficiency using only local workforce and resources is really awesome
Wow...such a beautiful thing to see. Very creative at very low cost. This should be adapted all across Africa....
I know about this project because it was in an Italian school book! In Italy they teach "geostoria" in middle school, which is a mixture of geography and history.
This is such a amazing initiative and gives me hope!
My mother replanted a cracked dry southern yard this way. Half was green half was cracked dust. This was in the 1990s and 3 years later it looked like a golf course. We never bought seed nor fertilizer. Just transplanted in this manner.
the earth is in a greening period right now
@@SadBoys.1996global warming is prosperity
did your mom use a water hose to water it?
I am thrilled to see this cooperative effort to restore the viability of that great land. What they accomplished in two years is phenomenal. This is only the beginning. The world's eyes are on Senegal. They are going to get it done. Their country and their people will prosper collectively.
What an amazing project. Thank you to all the people involved it is very promising.
Thank you Andrew great job.
I highly appreciate your works in terranga.
this is very cool but we must give props to the first man that ive heard of who brought back the half moon dimpling method. Mr Yacouba Sawadogo of Burkino Faso. Very important man
I've been telling people about this project for years!!!! With knowledge and teamwork, we can make fields in the desert!!! Generating lush landscape from poor soil isn't as imposible as it seems
and with almost zero knowledge and a half-cocked scheme you picked up from a YT video, you can fake it as well. As long as the initial source of fertilizer lasts, or as long as you keep pumping agro-chemical poison into the ground. The delusional obsession with what you can see is blinding the vast majority to the vastly more important parts of a terrestrial ecosystem. The Rhizosphere is 65% of the sustainability problem, yet is represented by exactly 0% of the literature or media about this project. That's not just suss. It's hekn suss.
@@ZennExile Yep. Also no mention of the minimum required average rainfall over the course of multiple years for this to be self-sustaining. You can't just go to a spot in any desert and do this. They are clearly doing it next to an active river area, which changes things. So many people think you can just go out in the middle of nowhere and then magic! Critical thinking is at an all time low in history right now.
@@ZennExile hhaahhaahhhaajhay!!!!???????!!! Do it! Lmao you worn see the profit you suggest xD
@@ZennExile and what's wrong??? Everything you said is addressed with Time. Love ya bro cholld house
@@zarroth the rainfall is a bit less of a problem as water can moved around with primitive irrigation very effectively.
However, I can, and regularly do, turn nearly any state of diminished land back into live fertile soil. You could point to any peace of diminished land on the planet and I could bring that plot of land back to life as a living part of whatever thriving ecosystem should be there.
That digestive gut at the foundation of the ecosystem just needs to be restored first.
Absolutely BRILLIANT! I'm so impressed and so gratetful that YT algos have finally brought me some fresh, new content! If I hadn't seen this successful program taking root (all puns intended!) I wouldn't have believed it. Watching humans (and WFP) reversing their negative effects to agriculture, and worsening climate change is an inspiration! I look forward to your other videos!
Such an IMPORTANT project. Love it!!!! There is defenately hope for humanity ;-)
They should be teaching this in grade school, high school, and college. Great insight, and highly sustainable, well done!
People teach themselves these ideas when they get out on the ground, especially at an early age. I was fortunate to start at 10 years old.
In fact, I'm actually thinking of implementing that into my future lessons of social studies as one of the plausible solutions to solve lack of food and migration patterns in certain areas. The problem, however, might be a lack of time to truly dive into some of these topics due to fact that innovative methods of teaching are getting more and more enforced on us, especially here in CZE.
@@TesteuroSS That is fantastic to hear, thanks!
They teach it on youtube brother, that's where real learning happens
Agree
The Sahel used to be a completely different landscape. In arabic "el sahil" means shore/coast: people crossing the Sahara desert saw the Sahil as a a green shore/coast that would safe them from dehydration when thy finally reach it.
One aspect though that's not shown in this video however is the immense impact of pastoralism. People in that stretch of land typically have herds of livestock that continously graze on the same pieces of land, degrading the soil by ripping out plants' roots and compressing the ground with their hooves. Thus massively contributing to desertification.
The shown project is definitely very cool and effective put not realistic in areas where pastorialism is the main type of farming and especially where sheperds ignore paths and just let their animals walk wherever. This has lead to brutal conflicts in the past.
There has to be a balance between pastoralism and vegetal farming, because it is also beneficial for the soil that animals walk around especially since their feces will provide sustenance for plants. The problem comes from having too many animals on a restricted area, or letting them into areas where plants have not yet taken root enough. For plants to grow you also have to enrich the soil, and using animal manure is essential for that. You can obviously just take manure from an animal farm somewhere and just put it where you want to grow vegetables but it might be complicated to do for very large areas. Also I don't know how it works in very desertic places because I'm not very familiar with the plants there, but where I live, if you don't let animals into fields regularly invasive species of plants will grow and then you can't do anything anymore with the land. Where I live a lot of agricultural land has been abandonned for generations and now it is very complicated to take back, you have to burn the land at least three years in a row to get rid of the invasive plants, and then put animals there for several years in a row to restore the land and then you have to constantly maintain it or it will go bad again. Aniways, execessive pastoralism is bad oviously but a balance between the two is what's best I think.
No, its the impact of grazing with no plan. with rotational grazing, and sustaining the soils, desertification does not have to happen. You can see the manipulation going on here. It has NOTHING to do with 'pastorilization' and everything to do with sustainable ranching
@@Lbb789 I was talking about pastoralism, which is not the same as pastorilization!
Technically pastoralism is the land use that's most suitable for this stretch of land (alternating humid and arid months and thus "following the rain" is the most effective thing. This is what all big animals in the savanna do naturally anyways).
Due to an ever increasing population (countries in the Sahel have TFRs up to 7 or 8!!) the overuse of land for both crops and animals is the result.
Ranches don't really exist there. Shepherds move their herds around. Yes, (seemingly) irresponsibly and without plan because there are simply too many herds and the demand for grazing land is much higher than what the Sahel can offer. Growing desertification means that the soil has no chance to relax.
An overuse of crop fields without fallow periods results in lower yields. Overall the issue is quite complex, it's called Sahel Syndrome.
Over 10 milliion views. That is just awesome.
Top to down watershed management should be taught in schools worldwide. Humanity can live in harmony with mother nature and be a beneficial factor on the planet and the landscapes it is a part of. Big fan of permaculture here and love Andrew his series on India also.
This is wonderful to see!! For some reason this is making my heart happy, more so than when I see a cement and steel structure emerge.
This is really a good innovation, considering that the local people have been working on the land for more than 40 years and they still haven't succeeded. Thank you for reviving their enthusiasm and hope, the good thing is, young people no longer need to migrate to other countries, they can continue managing 3000M KM2 of desert! this is awesome!
Yes but the un are natzis.
Depends on skin color.
Yacouba Sawadogo started or revived the half moon planting system. The UN is expanding his technique, they didn't "rescue" it. Great job by the locals for working as teams to make this a success. Great work covering this.
Great comment👍🏿. The presenter intentionally refuses to talk about the source of the technic and who invented it yet conveniently claims it as an outside project without holding a hoe or any seed to plant even on camera! Surprisingly we all see natives from the land laboriously tilling and planting under the scorching sun! Yes, it is working and again clearly very different from the once important Green Revolutionary project of Gadhaffi of Libya that worked better. The issue here is funds, capital and I mean money which UN and so called our “generous” international community will selectively waste on destructive wars and its consequences than projects like this! For a couple of years now almost $1 trillion has been wasted on war in just one country which is even getting worse! If just $250 billion,a quarter of a trillion is invested in reforestation and actual developmental support across the Sahel, not only would the world shrink the size of the greater part of the Sahara and counter climate change but will create a stable and permanent regional peace. People wage wars not because of misunderstanding but because of power, money and greed!
So far UN has failed in Africa and it is likely to be officially rejected and complete loss of member states in Africa in the near future if it doesn’t change its view to suit the people whose lives it wants to impact!
@@mosesm6040 This a what those yte people love to do, lying deceiving everywhere especially if it's sponsored by Reptilian EvilLLL organization UN (WILL STEALING AFRICANS THE MINERALS AND RECOURSES!!
ONLY FOOOOLLLSS BELIEVE U*N IS DOING GOOD THINGS #FREECONGO
Sorry but this sounds to negative.
The UN might not be perfect and is probably host to a lot of europeans/americans with "white saviour complex" but its doing very important work in africa.
The UN is not flawless, but its also not your enemy.
And im not sure which war you are referring to, but if you mean the ukraine war, just know this:
You are not entitled to the funds the western world spends on ukraines struggle for life and freedom.
You should not compete over money with other nations that struggle and rather find a collective way that promotes peace, a good life and democracy.
I watched the video and noted that it was said that the half moon method is a traditional method and that it was revived. I assume the folks that do the digging of the hard soil are getting paid for it. If we go by the narration then the locals have given up on the land. But if it was bad for decades - it would have been hard work to do it but over time it could have been achieved w/o outside input. And if the land was bad for 30 years - that is one generation.
One problem why the locals in Senegal might not have been able to resort to the traditional half moon technique is the pastoral practices. If there are goat herds etc. all over the place that eat every young shoot, it is not going to work. Likely Africa has become drier in the last 50 - 80 years, it affects ground water. What might have worked with free range herds in past generations, does not work under these circumstances.
NOW it has been bad for so long that there are no larger herds left (in that area) so now they can start greening the desert.
Was the same problem in the Loess Plateau in China where they had severe problems in the 1990s because of overgrazing (and they have better conditions than in the Sahel zone). Excellent very fertile soil (Loess) and on principle enough water for mindful agriculture and also for having free ranging herds. But it has to be managed with the communal interests in mind. Not everyone trying to best their peers with having even a larger herd. Be it out of pride, out of economic necessity or out of wanting to make more money.
The Chinese government dictated that the locals were not allowed to have free ranging herds - I saw a video (very impressive btw) and one man was not shy to show and voice his displeasure. He said: "They want to plant trees and we cannot have the animals out not even where it is still good for grazing. You cannot eat trees !!" The bystanders lauged when he said "You cannot eat trees" and they nodded along. They could not or would not organize themselves as a local community to do what was necessary to NOT undermine their base. Maybe the erosion and green land going arid had been going on for one generation (and the older generation only knew what had functioned for them back in the day) while the younger folks did not know the good old times at all. So it needed the outside intervention. The erosion was so bad they had dust storms in major cities. So the politicians paid attention - and along with the scientists they found a solution (which btw was also partially based on old practices. In China and other places).
What that Chinese man in the 90s wanted to do would have ruined the remaining good enough land (the Loess plateau gets more water than the Sahel zone btw but still they degraded it) within one to two decades. The scientists and the government were right - AND the government not only enforced what was necessary, they also made it economically possible that people could do for a while without free ranging animals.
They got paid jobs (earthworks - they used machines but also a lot of labour) and they got paid for keeping the animals in, so they could save it up to buy animals later while getting rid of most (when it was possible again to have _some_ free raning animals) and / or they could afford to buy feed for those that they did keep.
They have the same problem in wet cool RAINY Scotland. Scotland used to be covered by forest (if there is enough rain, trees will always ! out compete any other form of vegetation, incl. bushes and grass). But there were too many sheep, the forests were logged and not replanted. Also too many deers. The economy was for the few rich that had the way too many sheep and that liked to have plenty of deer to hunt. (locals were in trouble if they were found poaching). And it was an effort to keep the locals down and the landscape easy to control in case of a revolt or war.
Now they have to fence off areas - but then the forest recovers by itself. Arid areas need help to reforest, but if there is enough rain, the process does not even need more human intervention that the fence (which is however costly). Outside the fence every little shoot is eaten before it can start growing into a bush or a tree.
There are enough seeds in the soil and birds and wind bring them along, as soon as they get a chance they start recreating the former ecosyste. There is a TED talk about it. Restoring the ancient Caledonian forest.
I remember seeing a video about the great green wall almost 10 years ago. It was more of a trailer for what’s about to come. At the time, there were no other infos on it though, so I thought that it was just the result of the imagination of some random UA-camr.
Really glad to discover this video and seeing the project being successful. Gives me hope!
Bravo bravo bravo, amazing what u guys have done.
Really cool to see this going on, so happy to see.
Well done & salute to all of you.
It's enormously inspiring to see whole populations immerse themselves in creation and work for a positive, constructive end. Thanks for making this video and hats off & deep admiration for those involved in this project.
Author here: The Green-Wall, could it always have been done, no matter the Time, no matter the Era? Does it make sense for my Timetraveling Protagonist to go around and tell people to plant Trees exsessively on the Border to Deserts?
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@@slevinchannel7589...yes. Yes! Holy shit, that's an incredibly idea!
@@slevinchannel7589 Omg thats an amazing idea!
@@zachrabaznaz7687 I dont know if you know the Word Isekai but yeah: Such Protagonists and/or Timetravelers never using their Modern knowledge annoyed me for a long time now so i eventually started making a digital paper about what cna be summarized as 'Top Things Ancient-People WISHED they knew'
14 Pages now, including not just the classicsl ike Soap but also Marcipan, Desertification, Coloured Ink, Coloured Glass, Silkworms .
All suggestions what more i could research are welcomed
@@zachrabaznaz7687 Tbh, i seem to hit my lmit already. I had much fun and learned a whole bunch but stuff like Economics, Forestry and Dams dont seem to have concice 'Ruless´' that i can just write down, no 'Recipes' (like many Alloys are or ho Cola is) either
My specific Lens (Timetravel and WHAT TO TELL ancient people if i meet them) is also seen rather as odd and not a tool
I will stop my day for an Andrew Millison Video any day!
The documentary is so well made documenting the work beautifully with good music and visuals.
This model should be replicated around the world. Amazing job and thank you!
For decades of my life I'd seen that area always in poverty. Always dusty and barren. This absolutely amazes me. This is so beautiful. I am so glad you shared this with the world. It means a lot to see a once impoverished land being transformed into a beautiful start for a new generation.
One of the best videos I've seen in ages.people actually trying to save the planet and people without effecting the environment in a bad way.Why has this not been done in other areas?
This is truly amazing! Kudos for all of you involved!
Andrew Millison is a rockstar! This project is a fantastic example of how permaculture can address complex challenges like climate change and food insecurity. It makes me want to get involved and be a part of the solution.
Спутниковую карту посмотри, как была пустыня так и осталась. История-то не нова. Взяли грант. Нагнали массовки из местных бомжей. Поразвлеклись сами и развлекли местных. Деньги освоили и разъехались по домам. Увидишь белые пикапы UN - Беги! Нигде еще после них добра не оставалось.
wow, this is a real development! not only it will solve food problem of that region, it will create a whole new ecosystem where many other species will sustain. Great great work!
Go go go permaculture. restoring the land and leading the people back to what is permanent in both agriculture and way of life. i really feel like joining the villagers soon.
Very inspiring. A good course of action that benefit people and land in a massive scale. Look forward to see the crossed-continental green belt.
❤ from India 🇮🇳 Good job WFP & congratulations to senegal
Xavier😂
@@htetmyakhtun6914nope, pakalu papito
I couldn't wait for the release of an update to this project. I'm blown away.
Che bel progetto! Incredibile riuscire a far rinascere delle piante dove c’era il deserto! Davvero grazie a tutte le persone che lavorano x aiutare lAfrica a rinascere con dignità!!!❤
Mind blowing content!!! Thanks alot for bringing us viewers with such innovative ideas ❤❤❤
Very nice to see the fruit of knowledge applied helping the locals improve their food production sustainability and helping them to reclaim the desert land for better agricultural practices
It sure is great that Europeans are now helping to replant the trees that were cut down during colonialism (to subdue and punish rebellious villagers and deliberately make them poor)
This holistic approach to help nourish the local population is not only ingenious, it's completely sustainable. More government bodies COULD support projects like these, but sadly many won't. At least some get to benefit from the land around them again and thrive. Thank you for sharing their journey, so inspiring!
I hope it doesn't matter in the end, with mobiles and the internet they can figure it out even without outside help. It would take longer but it's basicly knowledge and not about money.
Totally uplifting watch, huge respect and love to everyone involved
Amazing. I spent a good while researching how to increase food production, clean water resources, and block the desert expansion in Africa. This is amazing work and I am jealous you are able to do something so incredibly helpful.
Envy might be the word your were looking for :p
Andrew, you probably don’t read this many comments, lol, but you and I had an argument when you were teaching permaculture in Oregon about invasive/native plants. It is so wonderful to see the work you are doing now, SO on the right track, supporting indigenous communities of both people and animals using co-evolved plants. Really great to see your own evolution. Thanks for keeping at it and sharing, I love the graphics in your videos too…best of luck, look me up if you are ever in Nova Scotia.
This is amazing. I honestly never thought this was possible.
I don’t know how I came in this video… but seriously it’s the best video ever.. Go green #WFP ❤❤❤❤❤ LOVE FROM INDIA 🇮🇳
I think they should do this in India too
I watch stuff like this and I realize I'm not doing enough, Thank you Andrew 💯🔥
Let's join head and go into agriculture, my dream
You can start by setting up a permaculture garden at home.
@@bettydavid3378 It is My Love My Dream My life My Farm....❤❤❤
Amazing work. The world need more projects like this.
Excelent video. Very informative and formative. Thank you.
I grew up in South Eastern Senegal. This is awesome to see.
I love this program. It's not just some charity for the locals, it's something sustainable that benefits the whole region beyond the sites where the actual plants are planted.
Not only is this an amazing improvement to the environment, it's honestly beautiful too. I hope this catches on and sees more use in deforested areas, people need nature and nature needs us to be good stewards.