How Farmers Reshaped a Region and Solved Drought 

Not under Capitalism, we won't.

but that’s not profitable!!!

​@@bobsandvegan8222it could be, however it would be profitable for everyone really

Companies won't allow...buy the government and pass laws to grab the land

Sounds like servitude.

Very true. While tree planting is, in itself, a good thing to do, the trees very rarely get more aftercare beyond a tree guard and a one-time drink of water - hence the disturbing number of tree deaths. This project (far and wide may it's influence spread) ensures that no plant needs struggle, whether it be nature sown or hand planted.

First they planted the water, and then planted the trees!

Tree planting doesn't even work as carbon sink. To mitigate carbon emissions we need a continuous patch of greenery. Nature doesn't work like electric poles planted in series.

​@@amillison heheh nice statement there 😏☺️🫴

They planted trees here too. Characterising tree-planting as 'showing off' seems harsh. But here they also did the prior work so that those trees had a good chance of surviving. Trees need a lot of water, especially to get established, so tree-planting without a water plan often fails.

Indeed. Amazing work.

Rising atmospheric CO2 levels are also changing the Stomata levels in plants, thus making them more water efficient and drought resistant, while also causing the plants to grow bigger and faster.

They’re still saving lives as well…

Nnnoow...how can we get something like this happening in Australia? Oh, that's right...we can't

@@andrewparry1474Australia is almost as much of a failed democracy as the USA. Oh well....

its much easier to make efficient and not curropt leaders in small comunities. its more challenging to scale it up to a level of big city or a state

And within a few generations there's always some individual that wants it al for him/her selve. That starts a series of conflicts etc. etc. etc. How do we deal with that problem ?

Very well said!! A true leader and hero and did you notice how many times he rightfully credited the local people for doing the actual work.

Share videos like this as much as possible. If you can't actively start something like this project, sharing the idea could begin something instead. Good luck!

I believe your problem is the export of water. Spain is one of the leading exporters of enormous amount of fruits and vegetables. And each piece of it takes 50-100 grams of fresh water out of Spain into other countries. Yes, at the end it is still finishes in the ocean, and spain is on the coast, but pumping fresh water out of boreholes for greenhouses, you drop your ground water level. You guys need to trade vegetables for money+water. Cheap, non purified water from rivers, not a fancy artesian one, but fresh, not salty! A tonne of water for a tonne of vegetables/fruits. Or forbid a groundwater usage for greenhouses and use only desalinated one from the ocean.

@@TushhsuTIt isn't that easy. None of the neighbouring countries have enough water. Also desalinated water is very expensive and lacks nutrients.

You just aren’t paying attention if you have to ask yourself why we can’t do anything like this in any western country.

You have to know this exists. Talk to your representatives… you mayor, environment minister or whatever you call it. Send them an email. Call them… idk start with your village or town and maybe you can inspire a group action between villages

Thanks so much 🙏 I appreciate the support ✨

@@amillison Patreon takes much less cut than youtube iirc. It would be good to provide a patreon link for supporters.

Yes I would love to join your Patreon! I'm just an artist from Canada but amidst all the doomsaying online, your channel is a breath of fresh air and I want to support you directly!! I've gotten a few friends into your videos and they also say that your channel eases a lot of their environmental anxiety.

@@modoodles There are a few more channels that will give you more shots of hope, for anyone that's interested - Mossy Earth, Planet Wild, Leave Curious, Leaf of Life...

@@bryanbadonde9484Now following, thanks !

West, they're in the west alright.

@@Ni-dk7ni not so much westerners who hate old solutions, but rather the capitalist agricultural market/extensive farming that has been promoted for over a century. It is not only a western problem, all parts of the world are also experiencing it now. It is difficult to change when you have only known one type of practice, and when so called "old practices" have become nearly impossible in western countries due to aging populations and depletion of rural areas (as this video shows, it requires a lot of manpower to keep this type of agriculture unfortunately).

​@@jagorsimp7020 excavators can reduce the manpower requirement by a factor of 10. Once you have the system figured out, you can have task an autonomous machine to repeat this patterns annually. The advent of Limited AI allows this process to be completely automated

South of you in Tunisia it's already too low that the government started regularly cutting running water in some regions to try and cut down consumption.

I know you guys are blast in the west and all but they're actually starting to do stuff like this in California. Besides building more reservoirs there were finally which is good. They're actually taking the overflow from the wet seasons and flooding out lands and trying to actually map where there is gravel that will help it go through the ground better and get into the aquifer so we're not perfect here. And certainly we've got a long way to go, but the fact is even in California. Even the newest they are starting to wake up. Maybe I should say we since I'm an American but like this is starting to happen here. It's in the central valley if you're curious

Actually the bjp helped them..and these people are doing great man.. Bjp is developing our India. The govt is making many technologies with the help of israel in agricultural sectors.. thats y modi is the most popular leader in the world.

@@blackdiamondbd2158 Come on man this was taking place since last 45 years. No one helped them. The villagers helped themselves.

@@matheenarif8645 Exactly , that was too much .

One thing I have learned from Andrew's videos is how not to ask for help from the Government. Help may or may not come. Even if it comes, it's often too late, or there's some other vision involved. As they say, "Self-help is the best help", or "Charity begins at home", there's also a Hindi saying "Apna haath Jagannath" - roughly translated it means 'One's own effort is verily God', or 'Anything's possible if one puts in the effort'.

Was discussing the same thing today with my roommate while watching this episode sitting in Bangalore.

Do not underestimate the power of one.🤗

Climate is constantly changing across the globe. These people didn't do more than the shamans who prayed for rain. After a decade there coud be few dry years there and they will realize their stupidity.

i was looking for this comment lol

Thank you! I am trying to shift people's belief in what is possible if we get together and do smart and kind things.

Don't believe the doom and gloom. Go out and see the world. Love humanity.

@@amillisonpeople like you deserve the respect and attention that is today given to EVs and other green nonsense

Great Work done

But its impossible in capitalism society

They call it communism in West

​@@radko001that village is capitalist Stop your communist bullshit

@@radko001bro what… this investment has a positive economical outcome. So it’s good for capitalists as well

​@@ScatPack123 its good but hard to make it work

Excellent analysis. The fact that this is completely low tech, in fact, ANCIENT TECH, is one of the most important aspects of this project, because it is replicable anywhere there are willing hands

Rising atmospheric CO2 levels are also changing the Stomata levels in plants, thus making them more water efficient and drought resistant, while also causing the plants to grow bigger and faster.

@@amillisonDear Andrew, this makes me wonder if you are acquainted with Julia Watson, her book Low TEK has been a huge inspiration of mine.

👍

Whats the price of an acre agricultural Land in Arizona?

@@happybunny6152 I honestly have no idea. Sorry to say, but thank you for asking. I'd have to google it myself, as I have not looked into it. I am developing what is commonly called an urban food forest, and have concentrated most of my efforts these last three years on learning how to grow stuff. Now that I know how to do so here in the desert, I will be looking for a large piece of land myself. Are you growing stuff yourself at this time? Or just looking into it? And, what part of the world are you currently in?

How did yo learn that? What videos/books? I would like to do the same in Borrego CA. Thank you!

@@alonalanski7119 Actually, I can tell you that the learning involved spans ten years, and involves a lot of learning time (books and videos) and lab time (putting stuff in the ground). It also involves a lot of what I call Flat Tire Theory. This is basically the idea that all things are, at some level, identical. From farming to nursing to astrophysics, there are common threads. I got the name from the old story of the boy who asked his grampa if they were going to the park that day. "We can't, because the tire on the truck is flat." The child looked at the tire and said, "But it's only flat on the bottom." Wherever the nail punctured the tire, the whole thing went flat. And that one point needs to be fixed before the whole tire can hold air. But, if you are interested, I would gladly walk you through the best way to get started, and key you into some of the best instructional videos I have found on the subject. The ones I have watched in full many, many times myself. As for the food forest, I started to grow my own greens because my wife was going to die of diabetes otherwise if I didn't. She was in the hospital for over a week (when the covid had not yet hit, but was hitting...spring of 2020), so I used the time to discover that diabetes (type 2) is a self-inflicted wound; not a disease. We used Keto and Intermittent Fasting to begin curing her, and we have both enjoyed vastly improved health. Since then, I am sure I have put in at least 5,000 hours of "class time" plus a lot of lab work. I did have a major advantage, having started, owned, and operated a yardwork business. I knew how weeds grew! And could identify them easily. No problem knowing if the sprout was a weed or something I planted. I knew all the weeds in my Tucson area completely! If you would like, please email me at: thearbor153@gmail.com I'm Bill. I have nothing to sell. I just enjoy "going on and on" about all this. As long as I enjoy it, you may as well take advantage of it, eh? Well, I look forward to an email from you. Just remind me that you wanted to start a water free food forest in your own dry place.

Thanks bro!!

I have another video in production roght now about groundwater recharge in Bangalore. Stay tuned!

PLEASE DO! People here give 0 fucks about the environment, act that way and then bitch about how everything sucks 😢

PLEASE DO! People here give 0 fucks about the environment, act that way and then bitch about how everything sucks 😢

PLEASE DO! People here give 0 fucks about the environment, act that way and then bitch about how everything sucks 😢

Will not happen as there is no money to be made by recharging groundwater. Less groundwater means more money for water tanker mafia owned by politicians.

Hi... also have a look at the technique of LNC (liquid natural clay) form Desertcontrol. They are now also active in the USA, I think in some projects with the university of Arizona.

I watched yesterday a video about a former millionaire that planted an amazing forest in the mexican desert. Yes, it can be done.

I was thinking central TX could definitely benefit from this too.

needs to save women first

Mexico is million times more violent than India, even towards women, yet India makes the headlines.@@Joe-uv9jo

You might be interested in watching on RU-vid about places, including regreening the deserts, being turned green. ‘How this woman turned Arizona’s desert into a farmland oasis’.

Each and every village already is aware of such techniques in India and is mostly in self-sufficiency with some exceptions because of geography.

wow.. r u a farmer..?.. The theme of India's G20 Presidency - “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” or “One Earth · One Family · One Future” - was drawn from the ancient Sanskrit text of the Maha Upanishad. we would love to share some techs to the world if they need any help!!

​@@blackdiamondbd2158 Kya bakwas kr raha h? Iss tarah se parchar karne se kya ho jaayega. Logo ko already dikh raha h.

Hehe i love your idea/connection that we are the keystone. With our control we really do hold all the keys to what thrives in our future

Thanks for the good feedback. More to come!

It must be the winter season or early morning.

Even Rajasthan sees single digit temperatures during winter months.

The night temperatures were around 10°C which must be just pleasant for someone from a temperate regions like Germany but locals in Rajasthan are used to 45-50°C, they need their jumpers during the early mornings because of the fluctuation.

Germans are very used to cold. Not because of cold weather but you guys open windows and suntna in 17 C degrees so you will literrally melt there. In my city we have cold winters with hot summers so I am more adapted to warm rather than cold because cold is easier to fight against while being hot impossible to fight.

He is not a political leader. He is a social leader.

@@realself9599 Also perhaps from a family of feudal landlords, who have no legal powers but locals respect them. But yes, this community spirit is exceptional.

Excellent! My plan is working ;-)

Jungle bachao bhai jungle. Bohot deforestation ho rahe h Bengal me. East or west dono Bengal me

I see the problem more in a loss of cultural knowledge. In northern germany we have so called "Knicks", hedges on small mounts surrounding fields, protecting against wind, dryout and waterloss. Most fields are way below 20ha in size. But when you go into the former DDR where they built large scale fields without seperation it is way more sandy and dry. But even in northern germany people are all too eager to remove these "Knicks" to get the last few square meter of field, not knowing or disregarding their function.

My favorite part of the video!

Thanks so much! I will definitely keep going. Lots of plans in motion :-)

Thank you 🙏🙏🙏

Do it, there is land

This video represents pretty long term effects, 45 years. But you can see many ancient terraforming projects throughout India to see very long term effects

Brother, just a curious question: are there parts of Thar desert in Pakistan too ? Like is it huge or small !

​@@DoomedCookie795map khol k dekh le. Puch kya raha h?😂

@@invalidaccount6147 Abey yaar gajab ke pagal ho, main usse wahan ke\a culture, area, kon kon se province mein h jss respect mein pucha tha bhai. Aur tu kyun itna tej bnn rha h ?!

@@DoomedCookie795 Tera wo curious question to kuch aur hi matlab nikl raha h. Dhang se pucha kr. 😉 Aur tez isliye bn raha hu bcz mein hu

@@invalidaccount6147 Ok bhai, abse aapse hi puchkr sb kaam krunga.

For this place in particular, there is a very deep and long story of rallying community support over decades. I am so interested in water that I tend to focus there. But perhaps another video will focus more on culture. Have you watched this one? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-q7q8friw1p8.html

@@amillison I’ve watched all your videos! They’re all so good! Just wondered if on your travels you had come to any conclusions about the culture part of permaculture. Seems to me that may be the harder part for us to implement these days…

Sadly it takes planning over many years, not over one cabinet term.

Some are doing similar in Australia with good results

@@awattOoh, exciting! Do you know of any specific sites I can google?

@@KalebPeters99 No. But this sort of thing has been mentioned in lectures that I attended over the last decade or so. Mainly altering the course of rivers to make them wind more.

yes, when it wants to be, but sadly this doesn't happen very often. The good people featured in this video are a good example to us all.

-is +can be