Stone Lines 

Having the villagers do the work gives them a sense of ownership. Twenty years later those stone lines still look well maintained and farmers know better never to go back to the destructive practices of old. Well done all of you.

A simple solution to a massive problem, Brilliant, well done Africa.

This low technology is as good as swales and check dams, and the transformation in fertility, hydrology and ecology is incredible. No need for earthmovers! I particularly valued the before and after, images and interviews, with 20 years in between.

Amazing! The Sahel needs a massive program like this

From here in the States, Bravo and the very best of luck!

the changes that the stone lines create are incredible to what they were before

It is amazing how fast regenerative farming practices work.

This the best step ,simple available sources sixty years ago as ten years old I used to make a pool to swim in the stream that ran twenty meters from my home ,I remember all the kids in the area helped to make it almost waist deep in two or three hours,my god one of my best memories

This is a great film and the subject of water harvesting and sustainability has really taken off since it was made.

it’s so interesting how simple yet effective this is

Knowledge of how we can best maintain our countries to help produce with natural resources is important and we certainly need more of this

only noticed at the end that this was narrated by Komla Dumour, what an awesome dude, his work is sorely missed.

👍👌👏 Simply simple and therefore simply fantastic! Thanks a lot for uploading and sharing. Best regards, luck and health.

This is amazing professor

Amazing people .its a must Watch..love it

Watching from Philippines ❤

This is a better way to fight poverty.

Wonderful to see!

Farmers in the Plains, California, Washington and Idaho could use this to great effect.

Amazing I wonder if we are still using this technology.

very useful and informative video, thank you

Simple and effective...ill try this in Indonesia

NICE JOB

Muito bom. Excelente. Estou fazendo em minha propriedade, Cáceres/MT/BR

Wow, such wonderful results. Well worth all the hot effort. Hope water collection continues to benefit those who work so hard.

Brilliant

Knowledge is power 👍❤️

Thank you ❤️

Traditional farming communities in Korea developed a system called JADAM, which has been proven to be used to make the land more alive. Namely maximizing the use of plants that have certain ingredients that are adapted to local conditions, livestock manure, mineral salt water, and other materials that are easily available nearby, then connected and integrated with the food chain system between plants, animals and humans, including the use of microorganisms. . I have started applying it to several areas of land that have been damaged, because the humus has been lost due to mining activities on the island of Kalimantan, where the condition of the soil is very similar to the condition of dry desert soil and is almost rocky. This effort is showing very good results and if this is tried to be applied on the African continent and other desert lands, it seems that it will slowly improve naturally and bring benefits that move very quickly. Greetings from me in Indonesia and it would be very good if the JADAM system which was pioneered by agricultural experts in Korea is implemented. Please see this method which has been widely broadcast on many RU-vid channels, as a reference. Good luck and greetings to a healthy and green earth.

Good stuff.

simple and effective, the earth just needs a little help to return to health and over abundance

Fantastic.

Хорошо придумали .молодцы!.

بالتوفيق والنجاح الدائم

Very good practice

Awesome

Veyr nice!

Good job, people

0:35 I never knew rain could run omg! I learn something new every day

What's the music at the end of the video please?

What a banging video

Super!

YES

Wow

viva largo burkina fursa, la gente aqui estan tan hermosas

If you like this, try to check contor trenches.

I'm curious to know if government policy has directed the continued expansion of stone lines into the degraded land shown in this video? Planting of trees suitable for providing browse for livestock would also be useful.

Excellent. What were the ratios between slope and stone line separations? What was the maximum slope that it could be used on?

Good

Super

The stone lines are not across the contours, they are along or parallel to them. There are a multitude of systems to slow the run off of rain water, several come from Australia.

Any further update?

Yeomans plough works well if labor of placing the rocks is too excessive. Same concept though, lay out level lines and cut along those lines instead of placing rocks.

If simple stone lines can do so much, imagine the benefits that could be achieved with proper swales. 😃

Good idea.

I am curious as to why the smaller stones were put downhill of the key stones. I have seen some systems where the smaller stones are put uphill to slow the water before it reaches the key stone. Can anyone tell me the benefit of putting smaller stones downhill?

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Need to plant trees the lands to degraded trees will help store the water underground. And any excess water will flood. But yeah this is very cool too.

There is another video of making Contour Trenches that refill underground aquifers in India, providing water when they actually need it, and putting back life into dead villages.

please plant more trees

We saw this in geography

Can someone please explain to me how and where this lines are placed ? I dont think you just start lining up. Where do you put the first (greater) stone ? How do you know how the line must walk ? Must you follow the route of the water when it rains?? Somebody please explain. Thank you.

all these development helping volunteers should do stuf like this not buildings schools that fall to ruins cause there is noone to teach the children

#california

قل إنما أنا بشر مثلكم يوحى إلى أنما إلهكم إلاه واحد فمن كان يرجو لقاء ربه فليعمل عملا صالحا ولا يشرك بعبادة ربه احدا سورة الكهف ايه ١١٠

These black folks are so intelligent they have almost come into the stone age... slowly but surely.... and they want to govern themselves without the French.... a noble goal.

DO SWALES AND PONDS TO HOLD THE WATER WITH RUNOFFS

i wonder if use weat as grass on hills. that when goes seed they use corn hook to cut heads off make bread? get benefit grass hold dirt hill in. still get food for people had do work put in.

I wonder if the before and after is visible from space via satellite.

Is the opening theme tune the same as Banished?

A-frames would have been faster, but the level has more applications.

The silt was the delta .

droughts with poor land management

Hey guys

A different topic, but if they cook over wood fires - switching to homemade rocket stoves would greatly reduce the amount of wood needed.

So, after how many millennia they finally have stone lines?

Good use of animation

no tractors, no machinery of any kind. no pestices , no chem fertilizers , but it works.

Hi if you are from my school

People with fertile land and even a little opportunity are less likely leave their own country for another one.

please plant any thing grow evryting any plants what you have (indigenous) for the area. never cut tree.

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This project equals about 833,333 acres.

The Rich Countrys Why dont help such Projekts

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What white people could made from africa.we just can immagion if we change continents.europe for africa..

Why dont help this peopel the Rich Western countries insted produis wepons

Hi

Then, build a coke company, all water is gone in year.

hope concrete jungle wont take place in this areas.

a better idea..have less children....