Imagine transforming barren and empty landscapes into abundant food forests, layered with mangoes, legumes, garlic, herbs and corn.

SwaYYam in South India is doing just this by using agroforestry and alley cropping to revitalise soils, produce an abundance of crops and educate local farmers.

Agroforestry and alley cropping allow multiple crops to be stacked in one space, with tree crops providing shelter for low-lying plants and holding water in the soil with their roots. Fast growing biomass plants are used as groundcover and then as a mulch to feed the soil. Nitrogen-fixers make nitrogen available in the soil for other plants and a range of crops are grown for year-round food.

Swales and ploughing on the contour work with the land's orientation to maximise water capture. Deep irrigation and pitcher irrigation take water deep to the roots of trees, especially young sapling plantings.

SwaYYAm and their educational centre, Open Shell Farm, enables local farmers to learn regenerative farming methods, helping them create their own sustainable incomes through healthy soils and bountiful harvests.

SwaYYAm is a recipient of the 2020 Permaculture Magazine Prize: https://www.permaculture.co.uk..../articles/2020-perma

Malvikaa from SwaYYam shares the story of the project and some of their techniques in PM108: https://www.permaculture.co.uk/issue/summer-2021

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Organic farmers in Kenya shared their experiences with drought, and the benefits organic farming provides for them to build healthy soils and continue producing food.

“#IGrowYourFood” is a part of GoodFood4All” campaign.

There are many things that connect people the world over. Food is one of them. We all have to eat. And, everyone has the right to access affordable, nutritious, good food.

But what about those who grow our food?

Do we know enough about the challenges they face, the work they do and how we can support them?

Then, without farmers, how would we eat?

The “#GoodFood4All” campaign is organized by 25 partners across Europe who have come together in "Make Europe Sustainable for All", a 3-year cross-sectoral project to promote the ambitious implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.

🎞 Also, check other videos from organic farmers diligently participated to share their own stories from the field:

#IGrowYourFood - Meet Gnavo Josephine, a pineapple farmer from Togo 🇹🇬
https://youtu.be/OaFASL2HK_s

#IGrowYourFood - Meet David Avelar from Portugal & hear what he has to say about Permaculture 🇵🇹
https://youtu.be/flNHvawzz2w

#IGrowYourFood - Meet Simon Mattsson from Australia 🇦🇺
https://youtu.be/Ia2XWAnlKzQ

#IGrowYourFood - Meet Yorgos Xepapadakos, an organic farmer from Greece 🇬🇷
https://youtu.be/EJf9AElCC9o

#IGrowYourFood - Meet Franciszek Kesler, an organic farmer from Poland 🇵🇱
https://youtu.be/3Bev9jr74mY

#IGrowYourFood - Meet Juan Carlos Mendoza Gonzalez, an organic farmer from El Salvador 🇸🇻
https://youtu.be/JoLWyxF3IX0

#IGrowYourFood - Meet Aurore Juillet, an organic market gardener from France 🇫🇷
https://youtu.be/40ly6vPlW60

#IGrowYourFood - Meet Penny Lange, an organic farmer from Ireland 🇮🇪
https://youtu.be/rrcIe_XQ4U4

#IGrowYourFood - Meet Giacomo Lepre, an organic farmer from Italy 🇮🇹
https://youtu.be/2C3S59Ysbvo

#IGrowYourFood - Meet Jonas Ringqvist, an organic farmer from Sweden 🇸🇪
https://youtu.be/2C3S59Ysbvo

#IGrowYourFood - Meet Mihai Sorin, an organic beekeeper from Romania 🇷🇴
https://youtu.be/vXaa-ynfZFA

#IGrowYourFood - Meet Jan Dirk & Irene Van de Voort, an organic farmer from Netherlands 🇳🇱
https://youtu.be/082OeBdTF9U

#IGrowYourFood - Meet Fergal Anderson, an organic farmer from Ireland 🇮🇪
https://youtu.be/4CPZtKqz8lI

#IGrowYourFood – Meet Helena, an organic farmer from Czech Republic 🇨🇿
https://youtu.be/whQEll-IO78

#IGrowYourFood - Meet Joseph Lwevuze, an organic farmer from Uganda 🇺🇬
https://youtu.be/sZN5qnW08eM

#IGrowYourFood - Meet Ieva Stragytė, an organic farmer from Lithuania 🇱🇹
https://youtu.be/sHTOhtduQE4

#IGrowYourFood - Meet Corazon de Raeymaecker, an organic farmer from Belgium 🇧🇪
https://youtu.be/m2cjAh1k2pY

#IGrowYourFood - Meet Lutz, Katharina, Christine & Felix, the organic farmers from Austria 🇦🇹
https://youtu.be/2iHpNw9ygMg

Good food 🥕🥔🍆 comes from sustainable, organic farming 🚜.

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🇪🇺 ‘Good Food 4 All‘ - a global campaign led by IFOAM - Organics International with the mission to promote the need for greater Sustainability in our Food and Farming Systems.

IFOAM – Organics International leading organic movement from all across Europe to build an inclusive, sustainable, and progressive future for all: Make Europe Sustainable for All.

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Organic Farming Drives Sustainability in Global Agriculture
https://www.organicwithoutboundaries.bio/2019/04/11/organic-farming-drives-sustainability/

World Soil Day: How Organic can be a Solution to Soil Pollution
https://www.organicwithoutboundaries.bio/2018/11/30/world-soil-day-2018/

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Many hand dug wells dry up at the end of the dry season, because more water is taken out than is coming in by the natural recharge. Reasons of limited groundwater recharge are heavy rainfall in short time, (climate change) compact topsoil layers, erosion because of loss of vegetation, etc. Options to increase the recharge of ground water are above or underground dams, the planting of trees and plants such as vetivar grass, making contour canals etc. An other option is the so called “Tube recharge”. This low-cost option combines a manually drilled hole with a drainage tube, a filter and a small pond. Rainwater, that otherwise would run off to rivers or evaporate, thus penetrates into the ground and reaches the first aquifer.
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20 years ago, Tigray was one of the most water-stressed, food-insecure and impoverished regions in Ethiopia. Around that time, the regional and federal governments decided that the way out of the situation was to pursue watershed-based ecological restoration.

The strategy seems to be working: soil quality has improved, water availability has increased, vegetative cover has grown several-fold, production of food is higher and productivity of farmland has been enhanced. The obvious knock-on effect has been a substantial decrease in poverty and improved nutrition.

The Tigray story could have lessons for all of us. This video is a preliminary look at what is widely called Tigray's "Watershed Movement." We would do well to look at the phenomenon more closely, for lessons relevant to our contexts.

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About 'Growing a World Wonder'

The Great Green Wall is an African-led project which aims to grow a new wonder of the world across the width of Africa. Its goal is to provide food, jobs and a future for the millions of people who live in a region on the frontline of climate change.

‘Growing a World Wonder’ captures the story of the Great Green Wall in awe-inspiring Virtual Reality (VR). The film follows Binta, a young Senegalese girl, as she and her family tend to their section of the Wall. It explores the challenges they face and how the project is already transforming their lives for the better.

Created using the latest VR camera and drone technology, the film captures both the epic ambition of the project and the intimate human story of the people at its heart.

The film is produced by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), developed in association with venture three, Apache, Al Maxwell & Surround Vision.

Find out more at: https://greatgreenwall.org

Credits

DIRECTOR: Richard Nockles
PRODUCER: Mitch Turnbull
CONCEPT AND SCRIPT: David Milsom and Jason Lowings and Alexander Asen
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Monique Barbut
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Alexander Asen
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Estelle Dixon
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Al Maxwell
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Camilla Nordheim-Larsen
TECHNICAL PRODUCER: Adam Vahed
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS: Charlotte Moore and Sam Rinaldi
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Ignacio Ferrando Margeli
VR PRODUCERS: Erfan Saadati & James Hedley
SOUND RECORDIST: Richard Stegmann
DRONE OPERATORS: Ben Huss-Smickler & Sununu Hernandez
COMPOSER: Vashti Anna
SOUND DESIGN: Toolshed
SOUND PRODUCTION: Adrian Meehan
VFX PRODUCTION: Jack Howard
CGI GRAPHICS: Hello Charlie
LEAD VR DEVELOPER: Maikel Sibbald
PRODUCTION CO-ORDINATOR: Jayne Hobart
PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT: Liz Stevens
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: Scala Tromans
SENEGAL FIXER: Khadiddiatou Ba
BINTA: Binta Ka
GRANDFATHER: Moussa Sy
VOICEOVER ARTIST: Mame Diarra Bousso Ndiaye

With Special Thanks To:
Wagaki Wischnewski and Louise Baker
Colonel Papa Sarr, Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Developemnt, Senegal
Chiek Oumar Top
El Hadji Goudiaby
Moussa Sy
Community of Koyly Alpha, Senegal
Community of Mbar Toubab, Senegal
Sekou Kamara

In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I look at the history of Cuban sustainable agriculture and farming. Specifically, I look at why sustainable and organic methods, such as urban farms and market gardens, proliferated in Cuban farming, and what that might mean for farmers markets and local food systems in countries like the United States. Some of the principles of Cuban agriculture could be used to build a system in opposition to our current industrial food and factory farm system.

Help me make more videos like this via Patreon: http://bit.ly/2iz4lIV
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Email: occ.climate@gmail.com
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Resources:
1. Bill McKibben's "The Cuba Diet": http://billtotten.blogspot.com..../2005/04/cuba-diet.h
2. Eat Local: Cuba's Urban Gardens Raise Food on Zero Emissions: https://insideclimatenews.org/....news/20090127/eat-lo
3. Creating a Sustainable Urban Agriculture
Revolution: https://scholarsbank.uoregon.e....du/xmlui/bitstream/h
4. Cuba's Green Revolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyLU9CP7iRE
5. What Cuba can teach America about organic farming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MsnXTMC1-E
6. The Paradox of Cuban Agriculture: https://monthlyreview.org/2012..../01/01/the-paradox-o
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Music:
I Don't See the Branches I See the Leaves by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/

Rewound by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
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Video hii inaonyesha maamuzi 10 makuu ya kilimo ya kufanya kulingana na habari ya hali ya hewa.

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This documentary presents us with opulent images of fabulous landscapes and fascinating people that make a living in the Nile valley, between optimism and tradition, with fantasy and creativity.

No other river is as cloaked in mystery as the Nile and no other river rules the surrounding countryside through which it flows quite as much as the Nile.

We experience the dawn of a great civilisation, whose buildings still cause us to stare in sheer astonishment to this very day.