Video: Forest gardens - a solution to hunger and poverty
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
Omar Ndao, like many indigenous people and farmers of Senegal, knows from his bitter experience that the modern way of farming in Senegal is leading them to destruction.
Senegalese farmers have traditionally grown peanuts, sorghum, millet and corn using the monoculture and slash-and-burn method. It was customary to give trees for livestock feed. And so the poor soil turned into lifeless sand. Young people were leaving the country, and hunger became a daily reality.
However, in 2003, active local residents and farmers, aware of the ecological disaster, with the support of Trees for the Future, began to create productive forest gardens. The Trees for the Future organization studies the climatic and natural characteristics, as well as the food and economic needs of local residents, on the basis of which it draws up a sustainable development plan for a particular area, bringing in it advanced effective permaculture technologies and teaching them to local residents. The center of all farms is trees, because they are the basis of life. As a result of such a breakthrough, not only food supply, but all spheres of life of the population began to improve. Trees for the Future currently advises and accompanies around 3,000 farmers in Senegal. Forestry solves the problem of hunger, desertification, and most importantly, people stay on their land instead of becoming refugees.
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