| LC control no. | no2011055575 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Sawadogo, Yacouba |
| Associated country | Burkina Faso |
| Associated place | Mali |
| Birth date | 1946-01-01 |
| Death date | 2023-12-3 |
| Place of death | Ouahigouya (Burkina Faso) |
| Field of activity | Arid regions agriculture Agricultural innovations Soil conservation Water conservation |
| Profession or occupation | Farmers |
| Found in | The man who stopped the desert, c2010: container (Yacouba Sawadogo) The New York Times, Yacouba Sawadogo, African farmer who held back the desert, dies at 77, Dec. 22, 2023, viewed Dec. 23, 2023 (Yacouba Sawadogo, a farmer who created a 75-acre forest on barren land by transforming the practice of 'zai' - digging small pits to capture rainwater; he dug the holes earlier and made them larger, adding manure and rocks to help retain the water, and millet seeds, and using termites to help break up the land; he also planted trees, which protected crops from the wind; born Jan. 1, 1946 in Gourga, a village 110 miles north of Ouagadougou; attended Quranic school in Mali when very young, returning as a teenager; he sold motorcyle parts in the market in Ouahigouya but left that to return to the land in the mid-1970s, just when a decade-long drought was beginning; with his experimentation he was able to triple his grain yield; by the 1990s researchers and farmers were coming to study his methods; after his forest was burned by arsonists several times in the 2000s, the government built a fence around it; awarded the Right Livelihood Award in Stockholm, Sweden in 2018; died December 3 in a hospital in Ouahigouya after a long illness) |
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