Stopping the Sahara: Morocco and Senegal's Environmental Battle | SLICE EARTH | FULL DOCUMENTARY
Stopping the Sahara: Morocco and Senegal's Environmental Battle | SLICE EARTH | FULL DOCUMENTARY
Fertile land is vanishing all over the world, swallowed by the desert. Africa has felt this devastation the most. In a century, the Sahara has moved south by 250 km over a 6,000 km front, turning land sterile and forcing populations to flee.
In Morocco and Senegal, a determined struggle against desertification is underway. The oases are being…
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UNWATCHABLE. Weird "chanting" music, too loud for the dialogue which is one language speaking over another. Good grief.
Can someone tell me the name of background.
Welcom to Dakhla capital of oysters and kite surfing
Draught came when they left traditional farming. When people are greedy always bad things finds them.
Do the farmers at 20.21 use inoculated Biochar for their agriculture?
The Sahel region is getting greener paradoxically one may think due to global warming and the Sahara is consequently shrinking. So this channel should get its message up to date to current facts.
I so proud of nature
When the Sahara issue is resolved USA eastern seaboard will benefit by having less damage from hurricanes‼️🤗
A very good work is being done in stopping the advancement of sands in the Sahara. My gratitude to all the participants in these difficult projects. Thank you for sending your Jounalists out to cover these VERY vital earth issues. Thank you.
They need to harvest rainwater. They can act in their own backyard instead of waiting rescue. Small and frequent is important, and avoiding bare soil. They can do it with earth and shovels.
It helps to have plant diversity for increased fertility, soil moisture, healthy soil biota and to prevent different types of erosion.
Its better to have heavy interplanting than to have monocultures. Yes, the main crop may be reduced but the secondary crops will produce at 80% and make up for the reductions.
They’re beginning to have amazing progress!
If there was equal wealth worldwide, like there should be and will be someday, they could build only modern Tower cities connected to maglev Trains, so they could build huge water catchments and many more things would be possible.
Capitalism is stopping so much progress by thinking it’s right to give all the money to a few rich people, and then they teach us that “you need rich people to help you” instead of having a way for all people to take care of themselves!
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Why we don't do it that's a good question is because our European governments. They have money for illegal immigrants and fake refugees, but they don't have money for recycle waste.
Beautiful documentary
Sorry Senegal, but Sheep farming is working as well in your semiarid land as it is in Australia.
Pastural herding is depleting the soil of needed vegetation to build a substrate for fungal association. That fungal association creates the fertilization of the dirt into soil.
I know you measure your wealth in sheep. But more sheep means more desert.
I still think that when Mechanical Processes were augmented with petrol, with pumps that could move more water than simple screw pumps or hand drawn wells could produce.
More water allowed for more land to be cultivated which allowed the human population to grow.
Essentially, the Human population outgrew the water supply and then the water supply crashed and that will take centuries for the ground water to recharge.
We seem to learn the hard way. We make a mistake and then hopefully we learn that it wasn't just an ACT OF GOD. It was Man.
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Some places like Australia in their Outback, they have similar high levels of RAIN, but on a very limited basis, maybe one or two rains per year. Then it runs off and evaporates. It's lost.
There are very smart water conservation use programs in some very untechnical and relatively poor countries. The Rajasthan of Northwest India has a similar annual rainfall profile and they have developed a system of land structures that hold the water on the land and captures it before it can wash away.
And of course they have a complex layered regenerative farming structure too.
They are gaining back land from their desert and holding onto rains for the whole of the dry season. Their wells are NOT running dry. Their crops are growing. Their people are being fed.
And their local climate is COOLER and livable.
If the AMOC slows to a crawl or even breaks down, then NONE of this will matter.
We, in the whole of the world need to make changes in behavior and that will be costly. Or we can start to lose vast areas to desert that will encompass huge regions of North America, Europe and Asia and then the Human and other populations will collapse massively and for hundreds of years.
The industrial planting of the Sahel is probably too fast. I know the need is urgent. But this ecological process can't be fixed in a year or three. It's going to take Generations of Local Women participating in the New Culture of Agriculture of Permaculture of Regenerative Farming.
And this is learned and passed on from Mother to Daughter and that takes time if it is going to work, spread and last.
Regenerative farming using simple soil structures "Half Moons" cut repetitively across a couple of hectares.
The plan is to angle or slope the dirt inside the half moon arc to create a depression for water retention. Then to plant the interior of the half moons with various types of plants, NOT just TREES, but to work with simple plants that are draught resistant and NITROGEN fixing and to work on Regenerating the Plant Fungi symbiosis in the soil. It's the process of returning DIRT to SOIL.
Three key elements: No inputs of external water or fertilizer or insecticide.
Using the Series succession process from simple nitrogen fixing plants to more complex plants.
Getting the Local Women population on board with the process to learn to extend these first hectares and to help train and assist the women in the next village over.
That is how it will rely only on Rainwater, and use the existing soil and work with fundamental biological process and be supported by the LOCAL Human communities.
Then this can spread village by village, hectare by hectare all across the settled Sahel.
Plus the People need to realize that excessive stagnant grazing is only accelerating desertification.
The process will be multigenerational. It has to become engrained in their culture and it has to be low cost to no cost and see benefits in one to two years, not trying to plants extensive Forests.
Forests come last. First the small pioneer nitrogen fixing plants, and then larger again drought resistant and nitrogen fixing shrubs, and finally draught resistant and sustainable trees. All have to live well in the climate, the soil type and provide some kind of crop of value for the local people to harvest for themselves or their chickens and goats or to sell to the neighbors in the village down the stream.
Iff you would tell the dinosaurs that the air now hase 20 procent ozigen not just 10 procent they wouldent believe it 😂
Climate is change.!
Dessert are beautifull importend exposfere and unique natural systems
Stop hating on the dessert save the dessert from the wook nature people
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Why ya keep uploading the same videos and put it under a different channel? that's pathetic!!