To see these sites for yourself in Google Maps, click the links in the description. If you view those sites in Google Earth, then you can click the "Historical Imagery" button and see what they looked like before the water harvesting and tree planting work. ANSWERS TO FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS: 1) Why don't they use excavators and other heavy machinery instead of toiling by hand? I've realized that it is very difficult for someone from an Industrialized country to fathom what it's like to be in a place with as little development as Niger. Niger does not have the infrasturcture in these remote rural areas to transport, house, or repair heavy equipment or the operators and mechanics in these locations. The roads can be very poor, and many areas are impassable during rains. Less than 8% of the rural areas have electricity. To support a fleet of heavy equipment pieces here, you would need a tremendous investment in the rural infrastructure of the country just to move and repair equipment. The populations are subsistence farmers. The villages are mud huts. The main way to get around are donkey carts. You can't just roll in the excavator into this situation without massive infrastructure development to support them. Also...the people are empowered by this work. They earn money from the work, and they take ownership over the projects because of this. The fact that it is not done for them gives them a much greater stake in the management and continuation of these systems.
Why lol how does this affect the rest of the world in anyway? Headlines are important national and global events, not community projects in poor countries
@@jasonmaguire7552Africa is not a country, silly. This IS global news on all aspects. It affects more people than live in the usa... global enough for ya?
@@jasonmaguire7552 are you really that stupid? this helps everyone... if africa can provide for itself that is less energy,money, resources that need to be shifted from other places to help... if africa can help themselves, they can contribute to the global economy and grow and better humanity.... good news needs to be shared, especially with the modern media machine so heavily spreading whatever gets the most clicks.
Isn't there a concern that this'd turn the Amazon Jungle into a desert, if this project became big enough? If you youtube search why we're not covering the sahara desert with solar panels, you learn that it'd cool the sahara desert enough to make it a jungle but also turn the amazon jungle into a desert.
@@edmis90 "Isn't there......" Well, since you brought it up...... _is_ there that concern? [Edit: And, no, you weren't "just asking". Don't try playing victim.😏 ]
@@zemasterbenb Not every part is eligible for this technique, this works as he explained well in the video, because of the dry/rain cycle, the pits serve as miniature reservoirs. Many places have dried out because they were reliant on splitting rivers, and the people of the region have concentrated the rivers into one, guided it into pipes or blocked the flow with a damn. So this method is actually quite specific to this region.
@@Struct.3 Then if that is the case, we probably can come up unique solutions for every region that needs help. How about the areas hit with forest fires or tornadoes in America? How about adjustments to the land that makes it conducive to collect the rain from flooding areas and redirect to channels that can collect those waters to bring it other parts of the country? Increasing the heat tolerant biomass in areas of drought that can bring the temp down too? We have put people in the air with wood and fabric which turned into jets and then developed rockets to put them on the moon in tin cans. We have the creative and innovative drive to save our earth!
This is the kind of stuff that truly changes the world. If news networks did stories on this kind of stuff instead of chasing the latest tragedy to get clicks, the world would change faster than we can imagine.
@@conor7154 Clearly she's talking about others who if they band together in large enough numbers, can overcome those who are doing harm. Yes, there are a$%holes everywhere, but if we give up, then they have won.
I would love to do this in Somalia. My mother planted 1,000 trees in Somalia with only her money. She sadly passed away unexpectedly last year and I wish to continue her legacy and plant more trees and fight global warming in Somalia.
Gratitude to her and to the other tree planters in Africa and worldwide, true heroes of humanity, but, please, plant because is natural to do it, caring for damaged nature and for people, not because of this hoax called global warming, nothing but artificial weather modification ❤
Your mother sounds like a real role model. Start a plant nursery, so you can plant seeds and grow the seedlings yourself before planting them. That way, the trees get cheaper for you. Grow them individually in bags made of cloth. Learn how to make compost to fertilize your plants naturally. They will grow better with good nutrients. Capture rainwater (for example from roof runoff during rains) in a big tank to have a steady water supply for the seedlings. Bring the seedlings up under a semitransparent shade mesh net so they have some sun but also not scorching heat from direct sunlight. Think of it as an artificial canopy. There are examples on UA-cam. Good luck with your endeavour!
This is so inspirational. Not only is the land being restored so that crops can be grown, but wildlife is also getting a boost. We, as human animals, need to work together to make these projects work for all animals! And most importantly: we need to keep communicating with each other to stop any conflicts and/or war. We can heal the world, but we need to work together!
@@stevenlake5278and imagine the French have been their for hundreds of years only mining uranium in the same soil instead of helping the natives fend for themselves off the land . It only took the Chinese a couple of years to help alleviate the problem in the Sahel
The world has not taken more action of climate change because the majority of people in the world lack the ability to think logically and solve problems.
Every now and then my faith in humanity is restored. What a shining example of the things we can all achieve when we’re in solutions mode rather than focussing on problems.
OUTFREAKINSTANDING👏👏. I'm not easily impressed,,,,, however, this has done it. I saw a similar thing done on a property here in Queensland Australia. The fella did something a little different, he bored a series of holes, maybe 200mm wide and about a metre deep into the water area, this gave the water a bit of extra depth to pool in and soak the ground. He also put in pockets of earth worms at regular points in the surrounding ground when the grass started to come back. The worms help to breakup the hard soil and aerate the soil so plants roots can penetrate quicker and deeper. Hope this makes it to the people in the know.
Yes the worms make a big difference. I've used them in my own small gardens & seen the plants growing better & thriving not just surviving. I've seen videos of families ding these systems in Arizona with great success.
@@ExcelNow2025 The goal of this project is to get people OFF of food aid and to allow them to grow thier own crops again and return to a traditional way of life.
@@patreekotime4578 How did they lived before you went there meddling in their lives? Did they ask for aid? Giving them GMO'S TO UNALIVE THEM LITTLE BY LITTLE? WHAT R YOU TALKING ABOUT? Do you think all African are DUMBER??? Aid for DEATH? Give me a break!!!
@abelhamel1754 If you're concerned, then we need to ensure the seeds planted are fully studied and vetted to secure the very best outcomes for the people. Time will come soon when Africa educates and employs its own biologists and horticulturalists with the best science to make sure everything grown is good for our bodies.
@patreekotime4578 yes. Exactly. This reminds me of a quote, "If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. But if you give him a fishing rod, you feed him for a lifetime"
I did some guerilla Gardening using this technique on a small scale in arizona. There was an abandoned property full of junk and was just barren of life save a few drying out old palm trees not even native here. It's been nearly 2 years now and the lot is now almost fully covered in prickly pear cactus, teddy bear collar and some mescuit and Palo Verde trees. The trees were planted near the base of the crescents just outside them and some of them are already very well established and since they grow fast naturally some are 8ft easily. The weeds come and go in waves but the amount of biomass and life density is miraculous. With out hard soil I didn't expect this to make much difference and eventually the owner of the industrial lot will probably have it cleared out. But I feel that if this can be done by just me that if we as a community were to organize we could make a huge impact on our Sonoran desert. It's thanks to videos like yours that I ever had the dumb idea even burn itself into my brain. When humans decide to face our problems and work WITH nature the work pays off. We might not benefit directly at times but we all benefit from our shared planet. Thanks for your wonderful video on topics like this.
@@aubreyharper4829 if you do then you know nothing about Africa. Facts: 60% world arable farmland is in Africa, China, the US, India would fit into the African space/map. Go do your findings.
This is absolutely incredible! These people have turned dead, barren land into a cradle of life. And it's so tangible, so immediate. It must be the most inspiring feeling to know that just a decade ago you were standing on scorching hot sand but now your efforts turned it lush green simply by providing nature the framework to strive all on its own. Their legacy will shape the land for thousands of years to come. These communities are so powerful. Truly.
These communities destroyed the land themselves. Europeans will do the work, and a few years after they're gone, everything is back to how it was. This is my own experience.
I know everyone’s watching… because the Middle Eastern countries have decided to do the same thing on a larger scale. Which is to be expected since they have a lot of money to do so. This is beautiful thank you for sharing.
they just make palm tree like islands for the wealthy that don't do anything and are abandoned. I'm not sure they are as humanitarian as genuinely poor nations.
Any area suffering from the issue of packed, parched soil that the seasonal rains just run off of would be masochistic not to take one look at this and think, “Hey, I bet that could help US, too!”. The information can spread fast on the internet; for once, some GOOD information spreading! 👍
@@misspat7555 we can look back to know the history as to why this boarder of the desert is increasing.. it's due to them ruining the savana for personal, short-term greed and gain.. that this project now exists is hopefully a small turn in the right direction.
@@xenxander Your 100% right on that!!! It was the people who lived in these areas that totally damaged their land over the last 50-70 years! And I say, not some Western countries with their "green house gasses". If there was enough trees/green foliage then greenhouse gas from elsewhere would not have any effect on them in Africa like this in these kinds of situations. The foliage itself would be taking gases in and pouring out clean oxygen. No, it was vast amounts of livestock overgrazing, deforestation, wars and conflicts and a range of other things they did to ruin their own land................... but it is not PC to be brutally honest now a days. Other areas around the world have done their own serious damage to their land like in the plains of the US between the 1850s and till 10 years after the great Dustbowl there in the 1940s. Between bad farming techniques and overgrazing caused the land degradation. But luckily the US found out how to improve on doing both for the most part changing the situation. And a certain percent of the plains have been without livestock grazing at all in the last 50-70 years, turning it back with natural grasses and plants. Only animals living their are native wild ones and sometime small herds of semi wild bison.
@@tiepreske2972 says who? oh! or you mean how we helped them when they took our people as slaves...abi? now i get it.....its people like you with statements like this that makes the talk about slave trade a non-ending topic...abeg commot! ode!
@@JustGaming-un6ph I grew up in communism, many parts were quite good, actually. The thing that ruined it was, like everywhere else in the world, a certain group of people who thought that they were better than the rest and should dictate what people thought and how they lived. This is second time I live in communism now, although it has a different name now, for some reason...
incredible, i wish youtube and other social medias algorithms start pushing more content like this. Its usually so full of negativity and hate its too easy to become cynical and loose faith in humanity. These videos give you hope!
I love seeing this. Not only does restoring the fertility of the land have the direct effects of improving nutrition for the people and their livestock and recreating healthy ecosystem, but there are also the indirect effects of reducing migration and improving political stability. 💚🌳 When people have enough to eat and their children are healthy, there is a lot less motivation to try to take whatever the next people over have. Stability supports education, economic development, democratic governance, and cultural and artistic expression, and those create opportunities for tourism and intercultural exchange. It's dominoes of good things falling into place.
Except that our scaling up has not been done sustainably. The food systems of the modern world are not secure because they destroy the soil and run off synthetic fertilizer made from dwindling fossil fuel resources. And we haven't been peaceful either. We make peace at home and war and destabilization everywhere else. The rich world only exists by stepping on the poor world. What you describe is a utopic fantasy version of civilization. Better than being super poor in a destroyed landscape for sure, but we helped make that happen. Mehacorps go in a mine these ppaces for resources, ofren intentionally destrabilizing the political system in the process because war and chaos makes it easy to suck a place dry. Our leaders know all this they take part. That is so we can chill out in cafes and imagine we live in an advanced society while the world steadily dies around us.
The Elephant in the Room is Niger's population 🎆explosion. 1950 - 2.5M 2025 ~ 30M 2060 ~ 100M Can there be wealth and stability shortly? Or will revitalised land be destroyed by overgrazing again? One way or another they will destroy local environments and wildlife.
Imagine an economic system with the goal being to grow a forest as big as possible, or to have the most biodiverse garden. People judging their social value based on how green and lush their land is, or how seamless the transition from nature to inside their home is. The modest poor having house plants throughout their apartment, a wealthy privileged oligarch having a skyscraper as a home that looks like a tall narrow green mountain in the middle of a city so abundant with plants that you're lucky to see the concrete between the cracks of green.
As someone who is in school for forestry with a specialty in siviculture and national regeneration, i absolutely love this content, and it is great to see others have this passion. ❤ keep up the great work 👏
It's nice to see people restoring the land instead of destroying it. I knew nothing of this project until I happened upon your story. Thanks for sharing!
I remember when they stared on the green wall as a child. Pretty sure i even read it in school books. It honestly felt so.. unbelievable to believe. Good to see it work so well. Really makes my day
This is the most amazing thing I've seen since forever! In a world increasingly doom laden, your video has raised awareness for me of hope and how resilience and such simple science and planning can really change lives for everyone. Not high tech solutions for solving the woes of a few in the global north but massive impactful solutions that can change the lives at the most basic level. Thank you for this amazing series! It's truly staggering that I've not even heard of this until I accidentally came across your video today.
I get very excited to see Africa healing and advancing. I hope they continue and keep away the greed. It's time we re-learn we take care of the earth and it takes care of ALL of us, not just some of us.
I flew in Niger, especially in the area of Zinder, Agadez and Diffa. As we went from area to area I would look down and see hundreds of crescents in the soil, I always wondered. And it’s not something you can just google to get the answer (you get mostly the significance of the crescent in Muslim cultures). Great documentary, very well done and edited. I look forward to the next parts
@abelhamel1754- he went because his channel is all about regenerative agriculture. Stuff like permaculture. A new way to do farming that doesn’t destroy the environment. To show that these methods actually work to heal the environment is the basis of his entire channel.
@abelhamel1754 While I understand your reason for suspicions I feel it's important to point out that you should start out with the presumption that human being do things to attain something they value. And we value objectives which we PERCEIVE will be good for ourselves. In fact, you should be suspicious of someone who is doing something and say that they get NOTHING out of it. Because I'm pretty sure they have a hidden agenda. Better for you to assume they derive benefit from their actions and see how your own actions can intersect with theirs to create a WIN WIN proposition for all. So, the question I would ask you is: How do you gain from watching this video? What do you think the Africans gain from these actions? Are you afraid that Africans will be exploited? Then how do you gain the technology and funding and ensure that Africans will not be exploited. When I say WIN WIN, please note that the WINS may not look the same for both sides and may also change from time to time. A successful partnership requires people to be adaptable and not be too calculating. What do I mean by "NOT be too calculating?" So let's take the case of @amillison, he makes money from his youtube videos, he gain credibility as a lecturer and academic which might results in promotions or pay rises or additional funding to do research. Let's say he makes $5.0m from this video OTOH, the Africans who were filmed, the folks in Niger, they don't get $5.0m,. What they most likely get is more food security, the projects get more visibility so that there's more funding for these sorts of projections from international sources, less malnourished children. Too calculating is if you start to think: "That's not fair. Why should @amillison get USD5.0m for this video and the people who do the work of breaking the ground and planting the seeds etc get nothing but some seeds and an additional USD1.0m in funding. Africans should get USD4.0m out of this video." Because if you think this way, you are always looking at WHAT YOU HAVE LOST and not what you have gained and what you will continue to gain.
At 60 years old, I now know that I need to find other places in the world to find some hope for people and our planet. I love how people have to work together for a common cause and look forward to the day when this part of the world becomes a net food exporter!😊❤
There is hope in all places, though we aren't the loudest of voices. There are small but growing communities of people like you everywhere. Some work to set up community gardens, some work to help identify and remove harmful invasives. Please don't be discouraged by the waves of hate and fear. Im sure there are others with your thoughts near you and together you can plan or be part of something in even a small form. Little things can grow into massive changes, sometimes it just takes a little nurturing and bravery
Most good people aren’t terminally online. They’re out doing good things in their community. If you’re always online, you’re not going to see the people out doing good things in their community unless it’s filmed.
This is exactly what is needed in many countries 😊I grew up seeing malnourished children in Africa on TV, I hope these life saving projects put an end to hunger once and for all ❤
What I love about this is that it is not a huge project, requiring heavy equipment and complex engineering, but something that can be done by villagers themselves with simple tools, a little bit at a time.
Assalamualaikum. This is amazing that people dig by hand the total of over 500 square miles of water retention in order to feed over half a million people. They are very successful. hugs to all of them.
@knoll9812 This gives Pride in their own village and ancestry as well. all by digging holes by hand and giving a Lifeline of water to people miles away.
It’s been 30 years since I did serious gardening and I just started again in my new area with raise beds this time, I’m 66 now It lifts the heart to toil in the Earth and to create flowers pollinators enjoy and inquisitive neighbors look on and think well that looks like something fun to do. But when I’ve offered for them to come on over and help yourself to some green beans or some lettuce and bless them. They don’t know how to cultivate it. We need to get back to basics, nurturing each other physically mentally and spiritually.
I was with the man who started this . Tony Rinaldo. It took him 14 years of hard work to turn a farmer from the old ways that killed the land. He was working with Sudan Interior Mission which changed their name later .An international mission organisation. He talked to me about the pit traps initially smaller to collect grass and. Seeds to break down and feed sorghum. The flowering tree you showed is a Arcadia from australia. He worked with the CSRIO and the aboriginal people who all picked the species to grow in harsh climates and be highly nutritious. You could even make coffee from the flower seeds and flour. I also knew he was very interested in collecting seeds from local areas that were becoming extinct. The best on was the mother of medicine. All these others on your video just have shown their faces once the success grew and he went to work for World Vision. Australia and God started the dream and work.
@robbie 6733 Aussie here. Did not know that! At last, something we contributed to that we can be proud of! And Africans are amazing for putting it into practice! So good to get some good news!
Saw a lot of negative comments on his first video. People didn't trust this project and was saying nothing was actually goin on. I hope these people arr watching this now
Hi this is Jury Gastardo from Philippines, a teacher by profession, Ive been watching videos about hungers and misserable situations of the people living in such country situated in a dessert where their lands are not fertile for plants and trees, Im so sad watching those children died on malnutrition..Im wishing also that somehow I can help these people.. Now, WHEN iive watched your videos featuring the restoration program of yoùr team Im so happy, very happy.In fact Im listening every details of the projects you discussed and how you made it dramatistically changed into a green land,,so amazing..People could benefit this project.Thanks God for this kind of people like you and yoùr team.
Yeah, good news that isn't bullshit. Just grounded examples of what can be done by people directly to regenerate the earth. We have the capacity to be caretakers of this planet. This global hyperconsumption paradigm has to change, and this is how it will happen. The machine will keep destroying ecosystems. Things get bad and people come together, motivated by need, to fix it. Espcially now that the species has some excellent design strategies in permaculture and agroforestry. Large scale examples demonstrate what is actually possible, and the foundation of our lives really is, the living world that we are a part of.
You need to hear this: the whole world prayed for your country to choose Trump. The whole world watched in terror the last couple of years to America, Biden administration and the crazy Marxism that was pushed through and through, as in our countries, exact copy of that mind fungi was latching on and growing and doing damages. As we carefully observed Harris campaign, we knew how a wwiii could have escalated if America was coming in with intolerant pretenses towards nuclear weaponized countries. I stumbled upon Joe Biden international piece of paper about some place in Africa, where they treat lgbtq people pretty badly, an Islamic country you know.. and he threatened the government, the authorities, to consequences if they didn't change. Tell me. Where does this take? We in Europe have international burocracy warlords who impede any work to be done on territory in the name of the "GREEN DEAL", do you think this apply for good right? Not at all, it is just insane.. even intervention on desertic land is prohibited. I'm sorry, but the world is not sorry that the crazy woke king and queen had being replaced.
Life saving, great project. Unbelievable that there has been no documentary or news about this, as far as I know. Thank you for showing us! Best thing always is to help people to help themselves so they feel pride again and become independent.
I would love to see one of your sandbox videos about the half moon structures and how to incorporate them in to different landscapes and different climates. Thank you as always for the great content.
So heartwarming to see the longterm progress of these projects. The ripples of positvity certainly seem to spread far and wide.Thank you for your continued reporting.
This is some of the best work in the world going at this time. This is real progress. I am more impressed with this work that just about any I have seen. Good luck to all working on this project and I love what everyone has done.
What a beautiful video, what hopefulness, and happiness to see people thriving! Whoever came up with this idea was blessed by God! Thank you very much for this video.
What an amazing endeavour! This plan is brilliant. It is wonderful that the people are helping themselves by solving their own problem. It will be empowering for them and a great example of mitigating climate change. Bravo.
Whose idea and achievement is this, I strongly recommend the individuals and organizations for the Nobel Environmental Prize awarding at once. That is because one part of the world made greener is greening the world in whole. Lets be happy to see it.
My favorite channel on UA-cam. Thanks for all the great knowledge and experiences you're sharing with the world Andrew. I just ordered 700 trees for my farm in Canada, which I'll plant in April, to capture water and carbon, create habitat, lock soil in place and provide wood for building things around the farm. God bless!
This is just incredible! I saw previous videos about the great green wall and it was more of introducing the concept and not actually showing the progress. In this video, I have actually seen what these half moon dug outs can do. It's incredible.
This is absolutely wonderful!! What an incredible sight after the devastated regions have been totally transformed by this amazing project. The people involved are to be congratulated for their hard industrious work. Not only are they holding back the desert but feeding and nurturing both flora and fauna for the benefit of all. Well done to all involved in this fantastic work. May the Lord smile on you all 👏👏👏
I felt so moved to have this pop up on my UA-cam!! So overjoyed to see a solution to a vast issue on our planet, simply heart warming! To see how these moon ponds can turn a desolate area into a thriving ecosystem that addresses so many issues, simply amazing
Every single thing that was done to achieve this fantastic Permaculture and African ancient wisdom result is fantastic. Trees and food forest perennials bring rain too. Now almost every drop of water will sink and spread and be stored in the soil. Outstanding.
How wonderful to see mankind engaged in a positive, productive, nourishing endeavour! Bravo to all involved and it must be wonderful for the people who doubtless have suffered in previous years to see this change coming about and be a part of it!
@@Wulfieman Very little, which is the whole point. But global climate disruption from US industrial activity that will not now be limited will make orange-face responsible for more suffering.
@Wulfieman Great question, how could the leader of one of the most powerful nations and the biggest polluter on the planet impact the climate of another part of the world? Obviously it only impacts the US.
Aaawwww, so happy to see the cute chubby babies!! I hope soon we will have done enough good in the region to change the image the public has of Africa, from starving children to healthy and happy ones ♥
This is duch s beautiful accomplishment...these hard working people are such a wonderful example to the world about what it means to love one another as you love self the working together instead of fighting each other.....May My Heavenly Father Bless these people and the countries involved abundantly always
What a wonderful project! This is what we need across the world, bringing people together to find their own solutions rather than relying on outside funding and working with nature rather than using a multitude of chemicals to control.
Loved hearing Bombino at around the 10 minute mark! These are the kind of stories / content we should be hearing more of if the MSM were doing their job! Kudos to you all 🙏🏼
This is AMAZING! As someone who worked in aridlands restoration for over a decade, this is astonishing work. May the GGWall be completed and nourish the people and ecosystems of the Sahel!
This is the way. Super impressive proof we don't need to bring millions upon millions of people to this country to help the world. Pretty simple to help people where they are. Love to see it.
But account for an evil religious idiology to conquer and ruin everything and cause permanent war and chaos. This still hasn't stopped war. And the generals know the regeneration is being attempted. Provide the knowledge and do a massive brainwashing indoctrination propaganda campaign that this is the solution and whoever doesn't dig must be treated how if one dog in the pack gets sick, it is torn apart by the others. Every single person should be digging and farming for stability.
I worked with an Indian family, living in cramped conditions working servitude wages for their "sponsors". When they showed me the home they left I was shocked!! I, and many I know, would give their left arm to live in the type of home they left behind under the lie their lives were poor and terrible. I'm not against immigration, I'm against vulnerable people being lied to and manipulated
Well... these measures take years - even decades - until they have an effect which improves the local situation. In case of an disaster (war, drought, floodings, food shortages etc.) people will flee and you either help them or you don't and if you don't you'll have blood on your hands.
I can see how one could mechanise this too with a plow that does intermittent 'trenching' and grass-seed casting. But it's good that the communities are hands-on. Now it's knowledge that will at least last 3-4 generations if the internet goes down tomorrow.
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To see these sites for yourself in Google Maps, click the links in the description. If you view those sites in Google Earth, then you can click the "Historical Imagery" button and see what they looked like before the water harvesting and tree planting work.
ANSWERS TO FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
1) Why don't they use excavators and other heavy machinery instead of toiling by hand?
I've realized that it is very difficult for someone from an Industrialized country to fathom what it's like to be in a place with as little development as Niger. Niger does not have the infrasturcture in these remote rural areas to transport, house, or repair heavy equipment or the operators and mechanics in these locations. The roads can be very poor, and many areas are impassable during rains. Less than 8% of the rural areas have electricity. To support a fleet of heavy equipment pieces here, you would need a tremendous investment in the rural infrastructure of the country just to move and repair equipment. The populations are subsistence farmers. The villages are mud huts. The main way to get around are donkey carts. You can't just roll in the excavator into this situation without massive infrastructure development to support them. Also...the people are empowered by this work. They earn money from the work, and they take ownership over the projects because of this. The fact that it is not done for them gives them a much greater stake in the management and continuation of these systems.
Nothing but respect for any people who get their hands dirty with good work. A love for our planet is a beautiful thing.
And it IS doable by hand, and they did it. Beautiful job.
Donate link ? Direct for that specific project
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It is in the first one in the drop-down, I believe.
Very interesting, thanks. By the way, the word sahara means desert.
this is the kind of stuff that needs to be in news headlines every day
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Why lol how does this affect the rest of the world in anyway? Headlines are important national and global events, not community projects in poor countries
@@jasonmaguire7552Africa is not a country, silly. This IS global news on all aspects. It affects more people than live in the usa... global enough for ya?
@@jasonmaguire7552 are you really that stupid? this helps everyone... if africa can provide for itself that is less energy,money, resources that need to be shifted from other places to help... if africa can help themselves, they can contribute to the global economy and grow and better humanity....
good news needs to be shared, especially with the modern media machine so heavily spreading whatever gets the most clicks.
8 years is actually a really fast turnaround, ecologically. Great work!
Isn't there a concern that this'd turn the Amazon Jungle into a desert, if this project became big enough?
If you youtube search why we're not covering the sahara desert with solar panels, you learn that it'd cool the sahara desert enough to make it a jungle but also turn the amazon jungle into a desert.
@@edmis90 "Isn't there......"
Well, since you brought it up...... _is_ there that concern?
[Edit: And, no, you weren't "just asking". Don't try playing victim.😏 ]
@@edmis90 sorry, what?
@@Tao_Tology Me asking a question doesn't imply me knowing the answer lmao, it's literally me asking a question.
@@edmis90 If the Amazon turns into a desert it is because of continuous forest destruction by the locals, not because a remote area became cooler.
It give jobs, it give food, it permit the return of wildlife and it saves the planet
This is so most beautiful project on going
You would not want wildlife returning!!! 😂😂😂 Stfu
Same needs to be done in america
@@gendalfgray7889 Every part of the world where the soil is destroy by humans or nature need this techniques
@@zemasterbenb Not every part is eligible for this technique, this works as he explained well in the video, because of the dry/rain cycle, the pits serve as miniature reservoirs. Many places have dried out because they were reliant on splitting rivers, and the people of the region have concentrated the rivers into one, guided it into pipes or blocked the flow with a damn. So this method is actually quite specific to this region.
@@Struct.3 Then if that is the case, we probably can come up unique solutions for every region that needs help. How about the areas hit with forest fires or tornadoes in America? How about adjustments to the land that makes it conducive to collect the rain from flooding areas and redirect to channels that can collect those waters to bring it other parts of the country? Increasing the heat tolerant biomass in areas of drought that can bring the temp down too? We have put people in the air with wood and fabric which turned into jets and then developed rockets to put them on the moon in tin cans. We have the creative and innovative drive to save our earth!
This is the kind of stuff that truly changes the world. If news networks did stories on this kind of stuff instead of chasing the latest tragedy to get clicks, the world would change faster than we can imagine.
Most sheeple don't want good news. Generally they are anger addicts, addicted to stress and disappointment.
Exactly
People need to stop clicking.
This type of work is what humanity needs to focus on, instead of tearing each other into pieces! Bravo!!!
America will start a war to steal Niger's minerals and oil.
Lol yeah I’m sure the warlords will agree, I bet they’d love to meet you, I’m sure you could totally change their ways
You’ve nailed it on the head my friend!!
@@conor7154 Clearly she's talking about others who if they band together in large enough numbers, can overcome those who are doing harm. Yes, there are a$%holes everywhere, but if we give up, then they have won.
@Dirpitz Who have you helped?
I would love to do this in Somalia. My mother planted 1,000 trees in Somalia with only her money. She sadly passed away unexpectedly last year and I wish to continue her legacy and plant more trees and fight global warming in Somalia.
Gratitude to her and to the other tree planters in Africa and worldwide, true heroes of humanity, but, please, plant because is natural to do it, caring for damaged nature and for people, not because of this hoax called global warming, nothing but artificial weather modification ❤
Perhaps you can get into contact with ecological regeneration groups like the ones that Ecosia or the UN WFP work together with?
@@mihaelapopescu4213you are insane by the way.
Your mother sounds like a real role model. Start a plant nursery, so you can plant seeds and grow the seedlings yourself before planting them. That way, the trees get cheaper for you. Grow them individually in bags made of cloth. Learn how to make compost to fertilize your plants naturally. They will grow better with good nutrients. Capture rainwater (for example from roof runoff during rains) in a big tank to have a steady water supply for the seedlings. Bring the seedlings up under a semitransparent shade mesh net so they have some sun but also not scorching heat from direct sunlight. Think of it as an artificial canopy. There are examples on UA-cam. Good luck with your endeavour!
Have you heard of Life Terra? They also have tree planting programs.
This is the kind of heart warming content we all want to see. What an incredible job.
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This is so inspirational. Not only is the land being restored so that crops can be grown, but wildlife is also getting a boost. We, as human animals, need to work together to make these projects work for all animals!
And most importantly: we need to keep communicating with each other to stop any conflicts and/or war. We can heal the world, but we need to work together!
This project is incredible. Seeing these videos fill me up with joy and hope.
I could be wrong. But I am sure the Chinese are telling them how to do it
@@stevenlake5278and imagine the French have been their for hundreds of years only mining uranium in the same soil instead of helping the natives fend for themselves off the land
. It only took the Chinese a couple of years to help alleviate the problem in the Sahel
UN aid workers touch children in private places
UN = hive of PDF-files
That's because you are so ridiculously gullible that you deserve to 10-Get lost; 20-Goto 10. Run.
“Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.” - Bill Mollison
Lovely. It might be because our problems tend to be simple, we just complicate them and ourselves.
It will be possible only when you change your mindset.
The world has not taken more action of climate change because the majority of people in the world lack the ability to think logically and solve problems.
And surprisingly cheap...
So true!
Every now and then my faith in humanity is restored. What a shining example of the things we can all achieve when we’re in solutions mode rather than focussing on problems.
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This was focused on SOLVING a problem ;) we still need to focus on problems.
Starvation rates continue to rise year over year in Niger - good job humanity and keep your head in the sand my dude
now all that needs to be done is sell them on long acting birth control
if the africans didn't kill thousands of white farmers it would have made a huge difference for the african people
OUTFREAKINSTANDING👏👏. I'm not easily impressed,,,,, however, this has done it.
I saw a similar thing done on a property here in Queensland Australia. The fella did something a little different, he bored a series of holes, maybe 200mm wide and about a metre deep into the water area, this gave the water a bit of extra depth to pool in and soak the ground. He also put in pockets of earth worms at regular points in the surrounding ground when the grass started to come back. The worms help to breakup the hard soil and aerate the soil so plants roots can penetrate quicker and deeper.
Hope this makes it to the people in the know.
Yes the worms make a big difference.
I've used them in my own small gardens & seen the plants growing better & thriving not just surviving.
I've seen videos of families ding these systems in Arizona with great success.
One of the best projects on this planet. My deepest respect to the peoples who came up with this idea.
Chapeau! Thank you guys.
Food to unalive my people. Yes best project to unalive my people, there are many schemes to do it, and this is one of them.
@@ExcelNow2025 The goal of this project is to get people OFF of food aid and to allow them to grow thier own crops again and return to a traditional way of life.
@@patreekotime4578 How did they lived before you went there meddling in their lives? Did they ask for aid? Giving them GMO'S TO UNALIVE THEM LITTLE BY LITTLE? WHAT R YOU TALKING ABOUT? Do you think all African are DUMBER??? Aid for DEATH? Give me a break!!!
@abelhamel1754 If you're concerned, then we need to ensure the seeds planted are fully studied and vetted to secure the very best outcomes for the people. Time will come soon when Africa educates and employs its own biologists and horticulturalists with the best science to make sure everything grown is good for our bodies.
@patreekotime4578 yes. Exactly. This reminds me of a quote, "If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. But if you give him a fishing rod, you feed him for a lifetime"
I did some guerilla Gardening using this technique on a small scale in arizona. There was an abandoned property full of junk and was just barren of life save a few drying out old palm trees not even native here. It's been nearly 2 years now and the lot is now almost fully covered in prickly pear cactus, teddy bear collar and some mescuit and Palo Verde trees. The trees were planted near the base of the crescents just outside them and some of them are already very well established and since they grow fast naturally some are 8ft easily. The weeds come and go in waves but the amount of biomass and life density is miraculous. With out hard soil I didn't expect this to make much difference and eventually the owner of the industrial lot will probably have it cleared out. But I feel that if this can be done by just me that if we as a community were to organize we could make a huge impact on our Sonoran desert. It's thanks to videos like yours that I ever had the dumb idea even burn itself into my brain. When humans decide to face our problems and work WITH nature the work pays off. We might not benefit directly at times but we all benefit from our shared planet. Thanks for your wonderful video on topics like this.
Wonderful stuff, good for you
Great story. Thanks for sharing it.
That is wonderful. What was the area? There are places in my city where I would love to the same.
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aaaaand thank you for validating about 4 replies I left to other comments where I insisted THIS WOULD WORK IN THE WESTERN US AND BAJA 💚🙃
I love environmentalism that works to help people instead of simply making the wealthy feel justified. Congratulations on fabulous work.
This is a huge success! Kudos to UN WFP, Govt, local volunteers, and the community.
I really hope that this project spreads to the whole African continent 🙏🏻
not all of africa is desertificating?
@@aubreyharper4829 if you do then you know nothing about Africa. Facts: 60% world arable farmland is in Africa, China, the US, India would fit into the African space/map. Go do your findings.
This type of work is not needed all over the continent, just the parts that are adjacent to the Sahara.
@@aubreyharper4829 actually, the whole f@#k!ng continent would need it, 'cause deforestation is taking place at an unprecedent pace!
Sh!t-Ole !!
The rest is full of forest buddy!
This is absolutely incredible! These people have turned dead, barren land into a cradle of life. And it's so tangible, so immediate. It must be the most inspiring feeling to know that just a decade ago you were standing on scorching hot sand but now your efforts turned it lush green simply by providing nature the framework to strive all on its own. Their legacy will shape the land for thousands of years to come. These communities are so powerful. Truly.
Who bought the Cows?
Title should say Niger 🇳🇪
Would like to know how many Children per Family?
These communities destroyed the land themselves. Europeans will do the work, and a few years after they're gone, everything is back to how it was. This is my own experience.
@@Maximedius😂😂😂 Niger is kicking out Europeans . You can ask France how is going.
I know everyone’s watching…
because the Middle Eastern countries have decided to do the same thing on a larger scale. Which is to be expected since they have a lot of money to do so. This is beautiful thank you for sharing.
they just make palm tree like islands for the wealthy that don't do anything and are abandoned.
I'm not sure they are as humanitarian as genuinely poor nations.
Any area suffering from the issue of packed, parched soil that the seasonal rains just run off of would be masochistic not to take one look at this and think, “Hey, I bet that could help US, too!”. The information can spread fast on the internet; for once, some GOOD information spreading! 👍
@@misspat7555 we can look back to know the history as to why this boarder of the desert is increasing.. it's due to them ruining the savana for personal, short-term greed and gain.. that this project now exists is hopefully a small turn in the right direction.
@@xenxander Your 100% right on that!!! It was the people who lived in these areas that totally damaged their land over the last 50-70 years! And I say, not some Western countries with their "green house gasses".
If there was enough trees/green foliage then greenhouse gas from elsewhere would not have any effect on them in Africa like this in these kinds of situations. The foliage itself would be taking gases in and pouring out clean oxygen. No, it was vast amounts of livestock overgrazing, deforestation, wars and conflicts and a range of other things they did to ruin their own land................... but it is not PC to be brutally honest now a days.
Other areas around the world have done their own serious damage to their land like in the plains of the US between the 1850s and till 10 years after the great Dustbowl there in the 1940s. Between bad farming techniques and overgrazing caused the land degradation.
But luckily the US found out how to improve on doing both for the most part changing the situation.
And a certain percent of the plains have been without livestock grazing at all in the last 50-70 years, turning it back with natural grasses and plants. Only animals living their are native wild ones and sometime small herds of semi wild bison.
Thank you African people for this great work. Africa is the future!
C'est des Européens qui les aident, ils ne sont pas capables de faire ça eux même.
@@tiepreske2972 says who? oh! or you mean how we helped them when they took our people as slaves...abi? now i get it.....its people like you with statements like this that makes the talk about slave trade a non-ending topic...abeg commot! ode!
Ahhhh yes good old saviour complex@@tiepreske2972
This is the beginning of the New World. People working together to solve the problems and benefit all. Love it!
That sounds like communism, sends fighter jet 😅😅
Sounds like a golden age, we are all ready for it ❤️
@@JustGaming-un6ph I grew up in communism, many parts were quite good, actually. The thing that ruined it was, like everywhere else in the world, a certain group of people who thought that they were better than the rest and should dictate what people thought and how they lived. This is second time I live in communism now, although it has a different name now, for some reason...
Don’t worry, once the famin problem is under control, people will screw it up again.😂
@boshenaw.929
Your antisemitism won't be tolerated.
Thank you so much to all the women and men that do that extraordinary work ! ! Congratulations ! !
Videos like this should go viral! We need hope that encourages more climate action!
1 Million views in two weeks is probably a good start. The more the better.
The Climate is healthy but this scheme is just good for the planet
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We dont need to worry about the climate
incredible, i wish youtube and other social medias algorithms start pushing more content like this. Its usually so full of negativity and hate its too easy to become cynical and loose faith in humanity. These videos give you hope!
I love seeing this. Not only does restoring the fertility of the land have the direct effects of improving nutrition for the people and their livestock and recreating healthy ecosystem, but there are also the indirect effects of reducing migration and improving political stability. 💚🌳
When people have enough to eat and their children are healthy, there is a lot less motivation to try to take whatever the next people over have. Stability supports education, economic development, democratic governance, and cultural and artistic expression, and those create opportunities for tourism and intercultural exchange. It's dominoes of good things falling into place.
Beautifully put
Well said. This is the sort of renewable culture we should be reinforcing worldwide
Except that our scaling up has not been done sustainably. The food systems of the modern world are not secure because they destroy the soil and run off synthetic fertilizer made from dwindling fossil fuel resources. And we haven't been peaceful either. We make peace at home and war and destabilization everywhere else. The rich world only exists by stepping on the poor world. What you describe is a utopic fantasy version of civilization. Better than being super poor in a destroyed landscape for sure, but we helped make that happen. Mehacorps go in a mine these ppaces for resources, ofren intentionally destrabilizing the political system in the process because war and chaos makes it easy to suck a place dry. Our leaders know all this they take part. That is so we can chill out in cafes and imagine we live in an advanced society while the world steadily dies around us.
The Elephant in the Room is Niger's population 🎆explosion.
1950 - 2.5M
2025 ~ 30M
2060 ~ 100M
Can there be wealth and stability shortly? Or will revitalised land be destroyed by overgrazing again?
One way or another they will destroy local environments and wildlife.
Imagine an economic system with the goal being to grow a forest as big as possible, or to have the most biodiverse garden.
People judging their social value based on how green and lush their land is, or how seamless the transition from nature to inside their home is.
The modest poor having house plants throughout their apartment, a wealthy privileged oligarch having a skyscraper as a home that looks like a tall narrow green mountain in the middle of a city so abundant with plants that you're lucky to see the concrete between the cracks of green.
This incredible transformation of degraded land in Africa needs to be more widely know. Great work Andrew.
As someone who is in school for forestry with a specialty in siviculture and national regeneration, i absolutely love this content, and it is great to see others have this passion. ❤ keep up the great work 👏
It's nice to see people restoring the land instead of destroying it. I knew nothing of this project until I happened upon your story. Thanks for sharing!
I remember when they stared on the green wall as a child.
Pretty sure i even read it in school books.
It honestly felt so.. unbelievable to believe.
Good to see it work so well. Really makes my day
Faith of Humanity is restored when I see this kind of video, nice job!
Same
They’ve also been doing similar rewilding of deserts in China - it’s worth looking up
This is literally the coolest thing I've ever heard. And it couldn't come at a better point in time. The world needs good news right about now.
This is the most amazing thing I've seen since forever! In a world increasingly doom laden, your video has raised awareness for me of hope and how resilience and such simple science and planning can really change lives for everyone. Not high tech solutions for solving the woes of a few in the global north but massive impactful solutions that can change the lives at the most basic level. Thank you for this amazing series! It's truly staggering that I've not even heard of this until I accidentally came across your video today.
I get very excited to see Africa healing and advancing. I hope they continue and keep away the greed. It's time we re-learn we take care of the earth and it takes care of ALL of us, not just some of us.
I flew in Niger, especially in the area of Zinder, Agadez and Diffa. As we went from area to area I would look down and see hundreds of crescents in the soil, I always wondered. And it’s not something you can just google to get the answer (you get mostly the significance of the crescent in Muslim cultures). Great documentary, very well done and edited. I look forward to the next parts
Yes, I saw too from the airplane all over Niger
@@amillison Who sent you there? Their interest is never for African but for themselves.
@abelhamel1754- he went because his channel is all about regenerative agriculture. Stuff like permaculture. A new way to do farming that doesn’t destroy the environment. To show that these methods actually work to heal the environment is the basis of his entire channel.
@abelhamel1754
While I understand your reason for suspicions I feel it's important to point out that you should start out with the presumption that human being do things to attain something they value. And we value objectives which we PERCEIVE will be good for ourselves.
In fact, you should be suspicious of someone who is doing something and say that they get NOTHING out of it. Because I'm pretty sure they have a hidden agenda.
Better for you to assume they derive benefit from their actions and see how your own actions can intersect with theirs to create a WIN WIN proposition for all.
So, the question I would ask you is: How do you gain from watching this video? What do you think the Africans gain from these actions?
Are you afraid that Africans will be exploited? Then how do you gain the technology and funding and ensure that Africans will not be exploited.
When I say WIN WIN, please note that the WINS may not look the same for both sides and may also change from time to time. A successful partnership requires people to be adaptable and not be too calculating.
What do I mean by "NOT be too calculating?"
So let's take the case of @amillison, he makes money from his youtube videos, he gain credibility as a lecturer and academic which might results in promotions or pay rises or additional funding to do research. Let's say he makes $5.0m from this video
OTOH, the Africans who were filmed, the folks in Niger, they don't get $5.0m,. What they most likely get is more food security, the projects get more visibility so that there's more funding for these sorts of projections from international sources, less malnourished children.
Too calculating is if you start to think: "That's not fair. Why should @amillison get USD5.0m for this video and the people who do the work of breaking the ground and planting the seeds etc get nothing but some seeds and an additional USD1.0m in funding. Africans should get USD4.0m out of this video."
Because if you think this way, you are always looking at WHAT YOU HAVE LOST and not what you have gained and what you will continue to gain.
At 60 years old, I now know that I need to find other places in the world to find some hope for people and our planet. I love how people have to work together for a common cause and look forward to the day when this part of the world becomes a net food exporter!😊❤
There is hope in all places, though we aren't the loudest of voices. There are small but growing communities of people like you everywhere. Some work to set up community gardens, some work to help identify and remove harmful invasives. Please don't be discouraged by the waves of hate and fear. Im sure there are others with your thoughts near you and together you can plan or be part of something in even a small form. Little things can grow into massive changes, sometimes it just takes a little nurturing and bravery
African sustainability and community was there from the start, no pun intended.
Most good people aren’t terminally online. They’re out doing good things in their community. If you’re always online, you’re not going to see the people out doing good things in their community unless it’s filmed.
This is exactly what is needed in many countries 😊I grew up seeing malnourished children in Africa on TV, I hope these life saving projects put an end to hunger once and for all ❤
I worked with WFP, its work is outstanding for the World.
It’s only creating millions of dependents. How many millions more of people does the world really need?
These are the kind of stories the world needs to see! Optimism and real solutions in the face of massive challenges. Thank you!!
What I love about this is that it is not a huge project, requiring heavy equipment and complex engineering, but something that can be done by villagers themselves with simple tools, a little bit at a time.
Assalamualaikum. This is amazing that people dig by hand the total of over 500 square miles of water retention in order to feed over half a million people. They are very successful. hugs to all of them.
UN pays them which is better than food aid.also a way of getting wealth into country at lowest level.
@knoll9812 This gives Pride in their own village and ancestry as well. all by digging holes by hand and giving a Lifeline of water to people miles away.
The ability of man to shape his environment is amazing. Paradise really is a walled garden. These folks are gardening on a mass scale.
This is something global life changing! Love this!!! 🌍✊
I love seeing videos like this that give me hope about the future. Gardening and permaculture will save the world
It’s been 30 years since I did serious gardening and I just started again in my new area with raise beds this time, I’m 66 now It lifts the heart to toil in the Earth and to create flowers pollinators enjoy and inquisitive neighbors look on and think well that looks like something fun to do. But when I’ve offered for them to come on over and help yourself to some green beans or some lettuce and bless them. They don’t know how to cultivate it. We need to get back to basics, nurturing each other physically mentally and spiritually.
@@JulieStCyr-lw4hkyou are right, it is miraculous and joyful 🥰
Finally!! Africa is fertile and proving that it can be done.
I was with the man who started this . Tony Rinaldo. It took him 14 years of hard work to turn a farmer from the old ways that killed the land. He was working with Sudan Interior Mission which changed their name later .An international mission organisation. He talked to me about the pit traps initially smaller to collect grass and. Seeds to break down and feed sorghum. The flowering tree you showed is a Arcadia from australia. He worked with the CSRIO and the aboriginal people who all picked the species to grow in harsh climates and be highly nutritious. You could even make coffee from the flower seeds and flour. I also knew he was very interested in collecting seeds from local areas that were becoming extinct. The best on was the mother of medicine. All these others on your video just have shown their faces once the success grew and he went to work for World Vision. Australia and God started the dream and work.
*Acacia tree from Australia, not Arcadia. 😉
Why only crediting the yt man you should give more props to the people who do it with their hard work. Done by their OWN hands
@robbie 6733 Aussie here. Did not know that! At last, something we contributed to that we can be proud of! And Africans are amazing for putting it into practice! So good to get some good news!
God bless him.
I think you mean Tony Rinaudo,
I remember seeing this when the project was just starting! Insane to see the progress!!
Saw a lot of negative comments on his first video. People didn't trust this project and was saying nothing was actually goin on. I hope these people arr watching this now
Hi this is Jury Gastardo from Philippines, a teacher by profession, Ive been watching videos about hungers and misserable situations of the people living in such country situated in a dessert where their lands are not fertile for plants and trees, Im so sad watching those children died on malnutrition..Im wishing also that somehow I can help these people..
Now, WHEN iive watched your videos featuring the restoration program of yoùr team Im so happy, very happy.In fact Im listening every details of the projects you discussed and how you made it dramatistically changed into a green land,,so amazing..People could benefit this project.Thanks God for this kind of people like you and yoùr team.
This is the most beautiful project in relation to nature… Kudos to the people who made an effort and God bless everyone..
This project is very meaningful. Permaculture rocks! Thank you for making this world a better place.
💚A big thank you for this life-saving act!!! 🌳🌱Wonderful contribution to make the world green again. 💚💚💚💚💚
we badly need good news like this!
Yeah, good news that isn't bullshit. Just grounded examples of what can be done by people directly to regenerate the earth. We have the capacity to be caretakers of this planet.
This global hyperconsumption paradigm has to change, and this is how it will happen. The machine will keep destroying ecosystems. Things get bad and people come together, motivated by need, to fix it. Espcially now that the species has some excellent design strategies in permaculture and agroforestry. Large scale examples demonstrate what is actually possible, and the foundation of our lives really is, the living world that we are a part of.
You need to hear this: the whole world prayed for your country to choose Trump. The whole world watched in terror the last couple of years to America, Biden administration and the crazy Marxism that was pushed through and through, as in our countries, exact copy of that mind fungi was latching on and growing and doing damages. As we carefully observed Harris campaign, we knew how a wwiii could have escalated if America was coming in with intolerant pretenses towards nuclear weaponized countries. I stumbled upon Joe Biden international piece of paper about some place in Africa, where they treat lgbtq people pretty badly, an Islamic country you know.. and he threatened the government, the authorities, to consequences if they didn't change. Tell me. Where does this take? We in Europe have international burocracy warlords who impede any work to be done on territory in the name of the "GREEN DEAL", do you think this apply for good right? Not at all, it is just insane.. even intervention on desertic land is prohibited.
I'm sorry, but the world is not sorry that the crazy woke king and queen had being replaced.
Life saving, great project. Unbelievable that there has been no documentary or news about this, as far as I know. Thank you for showing us! Best thing always is to help people to help themselves so they feel pride again and become independent.
A project like this gives me HOPE that ALL nations will do gigantic reforestation projects all around the world where needed. 💓
I would love to see one of your sandbox videos about the half moon structures and how to incorporate them in to different landscapes and different climates.
Thank you as always for the great content.
So heartwarming to see the longterm progress of these projects. The ripples of positvity certainly seem to spread far and wide.Thank you for your continued reporting.
Thanks!
This is some of the best work in the world going at this time. This is real progress. I am more impressed with this work that just about any I have seen. Good luck to all working on this project and I love what everyone has done.
4 part series from andrew millison on the great green wall of africa! I freaking love it!
Not enough parts ;) Hope he goes to Tanzania!
What a beautiful video, what hopefulness, and happiness to see people thriving! Whoever came up with this idea was blessed by God! Thank you very much for this video.
Impressionnant ! Ça fait plaisir de découvrir des projets aussi intelligents, et qui réussissent 🧡
Bravo à tous !
BBC or Netflix should make a documentary about this.
They won't is not a bad news
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You could make a documentary with your own money and time instead of demanding other people do things you want
@ThalanorThornhale how about you Africans do something on your own for once? Make your own documentary
I'm so very happy to see this in africa working together ❤❤❤👍👍👍
This is great news for Africa. I am so happy these new restoration projects are starting to work and making a difference on the lives of Africans.
What an amazing endeavour! This plan is brilliant. It is wonderful that the people are helping themselves by solving their own problem. It will be empowering for them and a great example of mitigating climate change. Bravo.
This is just beautiful to see, gives hope for people. Imagine if money that goes for wars goes for something like this.
Love seeing the examples from 1 year and 8 years.
Good stuff, Andrew.
I remember seeing your first videos on this a few years ago, it’s crazy how far the project has come!!!
The first video just showed a very new project in Senegal. Niger is where the really vast and established projects are located.
Excellent work. 500k people now proudly able to feed themselves and their families! Bravo!
This is absolutely fascinating to see that over a few short years, the entire ecosystem has been changed FOR GOOD. KEEP IT UP AFRICA!
Whose idea and achievement is this, I strongly recommend the individuals and organizations for the Nobel Environmental Prize awarding at once. That is because one part of the world made greener is greening the world in whole. Lets be happy to see it.
Tony Rinaudo. He's been awarded and has a documentary
I would love to see a documentary just on the artwork, the designs on the building at 14:03 are remarkable.
My favorite channel on UA-cam. Thanks for all the great knowledge and experiences you're sharing with the world Andrew.
I just ordered 700 trees for my farm in Canada, which I'll plant in April, to capture water and carbon, create habitat, lock soil in place and provide wood for building things around the farm.
God bless!
This is just incredible! I saw previous videos about the great green wall and it was more of introducing the concept and not actually showing the progress. In this video, I have actually seen what these half moon dug outs can do. It's incredible.
Outstanding. So encouraging to see positive projects like this, at real scale
Incredible work. Thanks so much for the excellent coverage of this important work.
This is huge! We are reforestation project in Zambia and we just planted 1000 trees.
This is absolutely wonderful!! What an incredible sight after the devastated regions have been totally transformed by this amazing project. The people involved are to be congratulated for their hard industrious work. Not only are they holding back the desert but feeding and nurturing both flora and fauna for the benefit of all. Well done to all involved in this fantastic work. May the Lord smile on you all 👏👏👏
I felt so moved to have this pop up on my UA-cam!! So overjoyed to see a solution to a vast issue on our planet, simply heart warming! To see how these moon ponds can turn a desolate area into a thriving ecosystem that addresses so many issues, simply amazing
Thanks for sharing such an amazing story! Well do to you and all the 1000s involved and the millions who will benefit...
Every single thing that was done to achieve this fantastic Permaculture and African ancient wisdom result is fantastic. Trees and food forest perennials bring rain too. Now almost every drop of water will sink and spread and be stored in the soil. Outstanding.
How wonderful to see mankind engaged in a positive, productive, nourishing endeavour! Bravo to all involved and it must be wonderful for the people who doubtless have suffered in previous years to see this change coming about and be a part of it!
needed this in light of current events - thanks Andrew
What current events are you talking about?
@@Wulfieman
Take a wild guess. Orange man bad.
@@aarontaylor4787 What does orange man have to do with Nigerians creating forests in the Sahel to prevent the Sahara from expanding?
@@Wulfieman Very little, which is the whole point. But global climate disruption from US industrial activity that will not now be limited will make orange-face responsible for more suffering.
@Wulfieman Great question, how could the leader of one of the most powerful nations and the biggest polluter on the planet impact the climate of another part of the world? Obviously it only impacts the US.
Aaawwww, so happy to see the cute chubby babies!! I hope soon we will have done enough good in the region to change the image the public has of Africa, from starving children to healthy and happy ones ♥
This is duch s beautiful accomplishment...these hard working people are such a wonderful example to the world about what it means to love one another as you love self the working together instead of fighting each other.....May My Heavenly Father Bless these people and the countries involved abundantly always
Mr Millison, you are one of my favorite people on the planet.
What a wonderful project! This is what we need across the world, bringing people together to find their own solutions rather than relying on outside funding and working with nature rather than using a multitude of chemicals to control.
This progress is very exciting and encouraging!
UN takes credit for this and it's the chinese helping them to do it.
@@stevenlake5278 Ah yes the Chinees...
World wide known for caring about the enviorment...
Please tell me you are joking?
I remember when this project started and gave me hope about future, now I'm so glad! fully respect.
The aerial shot of livestock and the man running got me. Beautiful !
Loved hearing Bombino at around the 10 minute mark! These are the kind of stories / content we should be hearing more of if the MSM were doing their job! Kudos to you all 🙏🏼
We need a lot more of this all over the world.
I wish everyone used their money and energy into projects like these instead of war. Love this, thank you for sharing ❤
Thank you Africa for trailblazing innovation! What an extraordinary achievement 💗
The project was made by a Western organization, so thank them.
@ everyone involved deserves a huge amount of respect and thanks. I wasn’t trying to eliminate any contributors.
@@sylph99 These people did the hard work on the ground, they easily had the biggest part in the whole project. Stupid comment from a stupid person
@@sylph99and who are doing all the work?...
Thank you so much, Andrew. Now, more than ever, I need positive news in my life.
He did Nate Hagen's Great Simplification a while back. Highly recommend!
This restores my faith in humanity
Wow, mind blowing. What could the world look like, if everybody were engaged to care for nature..
This is AMAZING! As someone who worked in aridlands restoration for over a decade, this is astonishing work. May the GGWall be completed and nourish the people and ecosystems of the Sahel!
I am 100% ready for this to be a standard! Terraforming is amazing, more please!
This is the way. Super impressive proof we don't need to bring millions upon millions of people to this country to help the world. Pretty simple to help people where they are. Love to see it.
But account for an evil religious idiology to conquer and ruin everything and cause permanent war and chaos. This still hasn't stopped war. And the generals know the regeneration is being attempted. Provide the knowledge and do a massive brainwashing indoctrination propaganda campaign that this is the solution and whoever doesn't dig must be treated how if one dog in the pack gets sick, it is torn apart by the others. Every single person should be digging and farming for stability.
I worked with an Indian family, living in cramped conditions working servitude wages for their "sponsors". When they showed me the home they left I was shocked!!
I, and many I know, would give their left arm to live in the type of home they left behind under the lie their lives were poor and terrible.
I'm not against immigration, I'm against vulnerable people being lied to and manipulated
Well... these measures take years - even decades - until they have an effect which improves the local situation. In case of an disaster (war, drought, floodings, food shortages etc.) people will flee and you either help them or you don't and if you don't you'll have blood on your hands.
@@uncle-bin1750 helping them with open boards has caused the death of tens of thousands of people.
I can see how one could mechanise this too with a plow that does intermittent 'trenching' and grass-seed casting.
But it's good that the communities are hands-on. Now it's knowledge that will at least last 3-4 generations if the internet goes down tomorrow.