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'Forgotten' water harvesting system transforms 'barren wasteland' into thriving farmland (www.upworthy.com)

submitted 3 months ago by SteveKLord@slrpnk.net to c/farming@slrpnk.net

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Just a few years ago, the Sahel region at the northern edge of Senegal was a "barren wasteland" where nothing had grown for 40 years. But the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and local villagers teamed up to regreen the area, bringing back agriculture, improving the economy of the people who live there, and preventing the climate migration that desertification ultimately leads to.

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[–] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago

Thanks for sharing, Steve. This is such a cool fucking post.

[–] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Thanks for sharing! This.makes me think of how vacination existed as cultural knowledge in Asia and Africa way before modern medicine adopted it.