Regreening the Sahel
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- In West and Central Africa, the World Food Programme (WFP) is working with communities, governments and non-governmental organization partners to rehabilitate degraded land for the well-being of present and future generations.
It would be a good idea if they could put all of the sheep and goats in a pen to keep them from eating all of the small trees that are trying to grow. Then they could actually plant a few thousand trees including some fruit trees. Including moringa and baobob trees. The moringa leaves can be ground up into flower or eaten raw and the baobob pods can be ground up as well and both are very nutritious. Trees capture rain water below ground, provide shade and lower surrounding temperatures. They could also plant some trees for firewood and for building shelters.
Not really, if they learned how to graze regeneratively, they could green the area faster by mimicking the migrating herds which are the reason that grasslands are so lush. Everyone knows manure is good fertilizer, but scientists are discovering urine from cattle and sheep actually stimulate grasses to grow (as well as water the grass). Giving an area 30+ days of time to regrow before allowing the large herd back on will give time for the plants to recover, take up nutrients, and use the fertilizer dropped by the animals. The trick is to give the animals only one day worth of food, then move on, and not come back until the grasses and forbes have recovered. Once they have, come back through with the cattle and prune, water and fertilize with the cattle, then move on again. In this way, the cow/sheep/goat rumen provides high quality "mulch" every month or so, direct "watering" into a pasture carried and filtered through the animal, and then some older or uneaten grasses are trampled onto the ground to be biodegraded or eaten by worms.
Goats tend to be the ones to eat browse (trees) while sheep tend towards forbes (non grassy weeds). It's why they use use the term 'goatification' goats + desertification = goatification...
Coppicing would be a great way to feed goats. Thorny shrubs could be used as the goats enclosures. Trees provide shade to tender young plants as well as allow grass to grow (grass doesn't grow in hot weather) and reduce livestock stresses (meaning they fatten faster). If they have higher land digging swales into the hillsides sequesters more water and thus more land for use.
It is important they incorporate diversity and avoid monocropped tree plantations. Mangrove trees at the coast. Incorporating acacia trees, along with those you mentioned, legume producing trees and trees with edible leaves are all options. Moringa is nice in that it is an antiflocculant, too.
70,000 hectares is about 250 square miles. So a good start, but still plenty work to do. But involving local people is wise.
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This approach was developed by Swiss farmer and researcher Ernst Götsch, who has been working in Brazil for over 40 years. Gotsch's method, known as syntropic agriculture, is based on the idea of creating a self-sustaining ecosystem that mimics the natural processes of ecological succession.
It's amazing that 70.000 hectars were rehabilitated 👍
Sahel the video thst was making on nomadic people what happen to Fatima & the engineer John did the house finish.
この地で植樹活動を行うには、人の手だけでなく、トラクターとショベルカーと散水車も必要です‼️
政府が導入するべきです‼️
Zai pits 😍 are beautiful to me. Would love to see swales, gully repair, etc.
Are they married now?
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Bravo! The very best of luck!
Shocking and very nice work 🌍💗
Super! 👍👍
Plant & grow tall spreading shadows various trees 🌳 suitable for Soil&climate of the regions. In Rajasthan desert Rohida(valuable timber Plant grow with little care),ardu, dates gunda babool, Kadamb peeple umber jackfruit gondh khejari banyan etc can try
great work
Hey man, it's easy when you don't got weeds!
A weed is just an undervalued plant...
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"Echosystems"?... or would that be "ecosystems"? It would be interesting to hear an "echosystem"...
British pronunciation for you...
Also see th anthropologist James DeMeo about it.
We shall start programmes for Sahel region with youths coming back from Europe inn terms of taming them to stay in the region. The ones who want business should be given the needed reorces. Egypt shall be our epicentre for arid climate mitigation and green revolution. All programmes should be environmentally friendly.
Egypt huh? How about one of the nations along the Sahel???