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.

Eston Mgala, one of the founders of Kusamala Institute of Agriculture & Ecology, an education and demonstration organization located in Malawi talks about the unique circumstances in Africa, and new ways of thinking of sustainable development.

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.

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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
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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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The functioning of the forest ecosystem is complex and often not easy to understand. This includes the mycorrhiza, the living community between plants and fungi. This symbiosis is illustrated with an educational film of the nationalparks Bavarian Forest and Šumava.

You'd find it hard to meet a greater enthusiast for farm biodiversity than farm manager Phineas Kibaka. In a tour around a farm in central Kenya he explains how he farms with wildlife following the Integrated Farm Management principles of LEAF (Linking Environment and Farming).
This film, one of eleven, is being used to share good agricultural practice in Africa.
LEAF (http://www.leafuk.org), Waitrose, African fresh produce exporters and Green Shoots Productions (http://www.green-shoots.org) have been working with support of the UK Department for International Development's Food Retail Industry Challenge (FRICH) fund to share good agricultural practice between African farmers.

Pumping water to irrigate, or water, crops in fields can be expensive, even when there is a river nearby. In Africa farmers are using the sun to provide the power to deliver just what the plant needs - one drip at a time.

Find out more about farming on the LEAF Virtual Farm Walk website, www.virtualfarmwalk.org

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This instruction video shows the total production chain of Cow peasbased on good practices from land preparation - planting - harvesting. It is meant for extention workers, farm groups or agricicultural students