Inside Africa's Food Forest Mega-Project
Inside Africa's Food Forest Mega-Project
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys with the UN World Food Programme to the country of Niger in the African Sahel 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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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.
I love this!
This is amazing!!
Keep up the good work ❤
helpful idea love much
White people had to pay them to do this and if left to those people this will revert back to how it was.
Assalom alaykum
They use picks to dig the half moons 😕, those folks should get some more powerful tools!
lets give some credit their government for agreeing and fully participating on this project and all the private companies and everyone who are involve in this project! amazing guys! truly amazing!
Great job
You need to introduce them biogas generation and beekeeping.
Great effort and great results.
Very nice job.
What about mosquitoes and malaria?
Personally I practice and it really pays
Good yields but commitment and t positive mindset is key❤🎉
I mean it's the WFP just wait and see how they f"ck it up
The best project in the world 😊
WHAT ARE YOU ON ????
Sub-Saharan african heroin rippped the freakin TOPSOIL off the north american continent !!!
with our LAST Two Feet of topsoil having been Transformed into a sub-saharan METHANE PLUME In Just 60 Years Time !!!!
Then i find out that there Has Never Been any rational person in control of those livestock feed shipments, EVER ;
and "humanitarian aid" was what their junkies told them to call it waay back when they first started haveing problems getting the ships past records !!!!!
Then I Find Out That The United Nations Has Been Taken Over By African Heroin !!! and They Are Using Climate Funds To Subsidize Desertification Of TEN TIMES AS MUCH LAND as they Claim to be "reclaiming" !!!!
THEY ARE GETTING PAID WITH CLIMATE FUNDS FOR ACTIVELY CAUSING DESERTIFICATION !!!!!!!!!
💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
Filming in the wet season talking about your achievments is like stealing nature's abilities and taking credit for yourself. I bet no matter where you film, it always looks green after it's been raining for weeks.
Cool story Bro! 1km out of 6200km of the Great Green Wall is done in just 10 years 🔥
Amazing!!!!
😮😮😮
Top marks Man working with Nature. Permerculture BIG NIG TIME
Isn't Amazon get converted into desert
Thus an intelligent person had said: “ Never to mess with nature ”
God Bless all helping hands and those reading this🙏🏼❤️🙌🏼✝️ May Jesus walk with you each.
Make sure this is in Agenda 21.
please what is a music in 9.53 min? please write here
Its si nice to see it works.can we all over the world support this great project with mo omney.if we all give some maybe the project will go faster
? How can we support it?
There are many people who think that the earth is lost, that everything is done for, that we've done irreparable damage to our mother, the earth. But what I've been learning as I see people do work like this is that Mother Earth is so, so incredibly forgiving. We have definitely hurt her, but she is just waiting for us to give back–and she will do tenfold with what we give her. She loves us, and forgives us, and all we have to do is try!
Good job, God bless
I salute to all the people who involved of this forest restoration they did not just gave people to eat but they give also food for the animals…
An Old man in India 🇮🇳 did this many year's ago ALL BY HIMSELF!
He literally turned a dry dirt desert into a Big Green Jungle.
The video is here on YouTube.
This is so wonderful ❤
NOW T H I S IS W O W..‼️‼️
Pan-African. Doing THIS-WORK by HAND ✋️ .
RECIEVES MORE LOVE ❤️ ::
Fabulous project 🎉
This is a human landscape.
Wow, i didn't know anything about this project. I pray for you Niger. You will succeed you will conquer the desert. Thank you Andrew sharing the story.
I can't help but think of the risk of mosquitos populating all those ponds of stagnant water, which could drastically increase malaria deaths, no? Obviously this is doing great work and lessening hunger, but are measures put in place to prevent malaria too?
This is so beautiful it made me cry! 🩷
❤❤❤ im speechless..
Image if the money spent in wars went into such projects instead ❤❤❤
That crescent shaped tree footing is developed by the Chinese for their 3 northern green wall project. simple yet ingenious solution to what seems impossible.
Who unlike this video will go to hell..😂
thank you sarge millison for the record video to land, it benifits info to europe