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The man who stopped the desert, written, produced, and filmed by Mark Dodd

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The man who stopped the desert

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written, produced, and filmed by Mark Dodd

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Year by year desert conditions continued to creep southwards, extending ever further into the once agriculturally productive lands of the Sahel . People began to abandon their traditional homelands, suffering from regular droughts and starvation. Many villages became deserted, yet Yacouba Sawadogo, a farmer living in northern Burkina Faso , decided he would remain steadfast against the creeping desert. By reviving and adapting an ancient farming technique known as Zai, Yacouba began to grow crops successfully on previously abandoned land

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