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Yacouba Sawadogo

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Yacouba Sawadogo: The Farmer Who Grew a Forest in the Sahel

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🇧🇫 Burkina Faso

A Burkinabé farmer revived an ancient planting-pit technique to turn barren, crusted earth back into forest, then watched the method spread across the Sahel.

40hectaresForest regenerated on formerly barren land
500% increaseCrop yield increase from zaï pits
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