THe Great Green Wall being built in Africa to halt the southern progress of the Sahara Desert is a favorite public works project

THe Great Green Wall being built in Africa to halt the southern progress of the Sahara Desert is a favorite public works project of mine — it’s massive, ambitious, long-term, important, and if it works, the effect will repay the cost many times over. This video takes a quick look at some of the work being done on the wall in Senegal.

  • Dragonseel@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    9 months ago

    The original plan of just planting trees did not work out as far as I know. But they seemingly switched to using the methods developed by Tony Rinaudo on how to utilize what is left on the land to restore it. There is a wounderful film about him and his work Der Waldmacher . I had the chance to watch one of the early cinema screenings of the documentary with the director Volker Schlöndorff being there to answer some questions. It was really cool.