How the Sahara Desert is Turning into a Farmland Oasis 

Also, it is vitally important to grow plants from seed to ensure healthy roots that find the deep aquifers, vs planting seedlings that have to adapt their roots to the new zone and survive root shock. Additionally, setting specific types of fire can activate the dormant seed bank and bring trees back to life.

The name "Sahel," comes from the Arabic "sehel," which means "the shore." The Sahara is an ocean of sand, and the sahel is the shore.

Demonstrates that it also isn’t just a case of planting trees, rather planting the right trees for that part of the world.

This is giving me heavy Dune references. The voice from the outer worlds will make a paradise of Arrakis.

Interesting video. A complex topic, particularly when people's immediate livelihoods and survival are at stake, so as you say, really important that local communities are involved and supported through any sort of transition like this

Wonderful video! This was so well researched and presented, it’s great to see more people making entertaining and educational videos about the environment :))

Amazing video Rob! Desertification and these projects are quite complex but I think you explained it really well :)

@6:45 The gentleman needs to leave the cut leaves and branches on the ground around the base of the trees. It provides heat and moisture protection, whilst increasing nutrient availability and enhancing the soil health for beneficial animals like worms.

Such a complex topic handled with great care! I love it

Even if many trees die and fall over it will not only trap moisture but will eventually turn into rich soil.

Rotational holistic grazing is also important in stopping desertification

Love your videos! Keep them coming!

Hey mate, love the videos look up a story in my home country of Aus I think you would like about rewilding. Definitely a different story on how to do it and I think you will love it. Look up ABC Australia natural sequence farming. Cheers 👍

Another great video and balanced insight into Africa's green wall!

you do good work. i'm glad I've discovered and subscribed to this channel.

Congrats on getting over 2K subs mate

An amazing project

Well explained video

Makes complete sense that you might need to change and developed once you start a project, once you know what works best... Doesn't mean you should give up just identify what top 5 things work and run with what works...

My husband and I got really, really tired of washing Sahara sand off our sailboat -- anchored on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean in the Caribbean. These issues aren't just local, they affect the whole world.

One part of the solution is to shit a forest. We shit undigested seeds and sadly, much of that waste/compost goes into underground rivers called 'sewerage.' If we convert all the world's underground rivers (sewerage systems) into composting toilets and spread that waste about the land, then we create compost-rich moisture sponges, that accelerate the growth of forests, whilst preventing destruction from grazing herbivores.

Great video

@4:19 we need to stop talking in terms of how many dollars it costs and talk in terms of 'people hours.' Money changes value with inflation and deflation, whereas 'people-power' remains at constant. A seed today, takes as much energy to grow as it did at every other time in history

ide like it if leave curious to visit the lace district

Forgot to mention how colonization contributed to desertification.

great video.

Arizona, we like mesquite trees. Human food, and the leaves have the same feed value as clover, but, livestock need to be trained to eat it. Trees are sacred and mesquite was the tree of life and far more commonly planted than maize.

There another reason or theory for deserts.YT hydroplate theory walter brown.

first! love your vids man

I heard it's only really working in 1 country. The rest are too unstable

Keep planting we live in hope ,and when they do work works well ,good results in china ,They result will benefit people .

Mussolini was having great work done to re-green the north African dessert in places.

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I thought we didn't want to turn the Sahara, because the sands watered the Amazon? and if the desert was a forest the amazon would die?

Deserts stopped spreading 40 years ago and we have seen a greening of the Sahel (global actually), around 25%. Due to increased precipitation and, although not popular, increased temperature and CO2 levels. Locally human action have contributed to the greening, not least in Niger and Burkina Faso where I have observed it. Not by megaprojects and overfinanced NGOs, mind you, but by efforts done by local populations.

Geoengineering could be a factor for desertification also maybe? And a main factor for 'climate change' ?

Perhaps take a look at Alan Savory and his TEDx talk. The answer is counter-intuitive to conventional thinking. It will be difficult to grow any tree, native or otherwise, without rich soil to capture rainfall.

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Before watching I am guessing none of this will be attributed to rising CO2 levels, because that's "not cool". However, I do want to share with the audience that higher levels of CO2 causes less stomata to be generated in the leaves, significantly reducing plant evaporation. In simple terms: Increasing CO2 decreases water usage by plants. This may be the primary driver behind "desert greening". For obvious reasons, this doesn't get a lot of attention. But find me any plant scientist that disagrees, and I will eat my shoes.

ONCE I’ve watched a video on RU-vid that stated, that desertification clearly is bad for locals, but also produces positive effects for the overall planet, as a desert reflects most the sun’s light (albedo), while a dark forest attracts and saves heat… so reforestation is a double-edged sword

a really nice comitted young man. just my question. people have lived in these areas for thousand of years. they were herdsmen and farmers. when did the ecological decline of these areas actually start, and why? a bit more historical truth would have been good. and a little less "now the western european resuer ist coming too". what we see here are the ugly consequences of european colonial policy, in the footsteps of which a sufficiently large part of today's elite of african states are happy to walk.

I want to ask this so smart guy from Mossy this.... what's the correlation between Sahara and Amazon Forest, if we make Sahara Green then wouldn't damage Amazon Forest???? from what i ve reed and learned in School is that even if is a ocean between those 2 regions one without each other cant exist...Amazon Forest take a lot of nutrients from the sand that come across the ocean from Sahara and if we stop that flow what will happens? i m not saying to not help people in Africa but we need to think about the hope pictures,..is not that what you teach us???

We need more co2 plants love co2 it make them grow especially in dry areas they don’t have to stay open so long to take in co2 so dry out less and have more chance to grow

you need to revisit your writing, the first half of this made me feel so hopeless.

Nice video but using miles? kinda cringe bro, ngl esp when the green wall is a beautiful round 7000 km long

Majority of desertification is man-made by overgrazing and logging. It has barely anything to do with CO2, climate change, freons and similar things. I know that all the rock deserts in my country are man made through excessive logging and overgrazing. The matter of fact is that forests today are growing at an accelerated pace. Leave the nature alone for 20 years you'll have a tropical forest from a bare land... I've seen it with my own eyes.. you don't have to have no gurus to "teach" you how to regenerate nature.. the nature is self-regerating... just leave it time to heal itself.

What are miles? Try kilometres if you want to keep the audience.

The constant zooming in on yourself is irritating.

There were deserts when the world’s population was very small. Do the maths to see how many years you go back to very small numbers. So it wasn’t humans then. Agree that care needs to be taken.

If the Sahara turns green then forget the earth, it means its screwed and so are we! The Sahara is one of the places responsible for keeping the earth at a certain temp, same as the arctic, mess with this and we will all die..! Who cares tho cus there is much money to be made 😂😂😂

Defund the United Nations.

Ngl, it's sad that this is considered an "ambitious goal." $8 billion USD is frankly nothing, on the scale of how much sheer wealth is created for the 1% in a year -- nevermind how much 'wealth' actually exists in total, 'everywhere'. You could probably just sink a few billionaire yachts from just their Caribbean fleet (billionaire's have two, separate annual fleets of yachts in the Mediterranean and Caribbean, don'tcha know? The plutocrats migrate annually, like birds) and fund that entire project without the plutocracy even noticing. And yet projects like this are contingent on the charitable funds provisioned almost exclusively by working class individuals shelling out through mediums like yours. God forbid the bourgeoisie actually utilize any of their wealth to solve systemic global problems; they wouldn't be able to profit off of all the ways they exploit, extract, expropriate, externalize, and ultimately subjugate and abuse the state of vulnerability that poverty creates. If the rich didn't keep people poor, how would they force people to clean their toilets? Eugh. Obliterate capitalism.

Dishonest clickbait. This channel should ashamed of itself, as should anyone who is sucked in by its silly claims, false comparisons, false images, and arrant nonsense.

I've stopped listening to your videos because for some reason there is added music/noise. Your content is good enough, added annoying noise is not required.