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Burkina Faso: “Yacouba Sawadogo (1946-2023) was known as ‘the man who stopped the desert’. Starting around 1980 during a phase of severe drought, he successfully created an almost 40-hectare forest on formerly barren and abandoned land.” “Sawadogo’s remarkable success builds on experimenting with traditional planting pits for soil, water and biomass retention, called ‘zaï’ in the local language.” https://rightlivelihood.org/the-change-makers/find-a-laureate/yacouba-sawadogo/