Part of the biodiverse forest created by Yacouba Sawadogo, a farmer innovator near Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso.
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Part of the biodiverse forest created by Yacouba Sawadogo, a farmer innovator near Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso. In 1979, this was a barren plateau until he began rehabilitating his land by planting trees and capturing rainfall and protecting trees on his land. Gray Tappan USGS
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Public Domain.
Gray Tappan USGS
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