Inside Africa's Food Forest Mega-Project

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Recommends inetknght · 2025-04 · on “U.S. Economy Contracts at 0.3% Rate in First Quarter”

> A dramatic example of this are the arab states that are trying to brute force make the desert an attractive place to be They're doing it wrong. I'll point to places adjacent to the sahara building a "green wall" which is turning parts of the sahara back to a savannah and replenishes the water table. [this video] Andrew Millison's youtube channel has several videos on the subject, and related subjects in other parts of the world too. [LINK]

Recommends jillesvangurp · 2025-10 · on “China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990”

Just search for things like "green wall", "china straw landscape", etc. A few good ones that I watched: - Inside Africa's Food Forest Mega-Project [this video] - China Buried Tons of Dead Plants Under the Desert Sand [LINK] - Green Gold: Regreening the Desert | John D. Liu [LINK] There are way more. One channel that I might call [LINK] . They basically use donations to take on projects to do smalls scale nature restoration. I am actually considering making a donation to them because I like what they do. There are more examples of such channels. Not everything on this front is without controversy of course and I'm not blind to that. But I like the positive, constructive nature of these approaches.

Recommends westurner · 2026-07 · on “Arizona's Declining Groundwater”

Would semi-circular bunds help fight desertification in Arizona and along the Colorado River and in the Southwestern US, as they do on the Sahel? From [LINK] : > Agricultural Bunds (and buried unglazed water vessels) would probably work in NM, too; but which agricultural resources can process bunds instead of rows? From [LINK] : > Water bunds look like they work to prevent water from flashing off, but probably initially disturb the mycorrhizae in the topsoil: Semicircular bund: [LINK] > "Inoculating soil with mycorrhizal fungi can increase plant yield: study" (2024) [LINK] From [LINK] : > Half Moon Bunds look like they are working to regreen the Sahel. Bunds would require different farm mach

Cites westurner · 2025-02 · on “Ask HN: Who's been picking up trade deals due to US tariff threats?”

I looked it up: Wage subsidy: [LINK] : > A wage subsidy is a payment to workers by the state, made either directly or through their employers. Its purposes are to redistribute income and to obviate the welfare trap attributed to other forms of relief, thereby reducing unemployment. It is most naturally implemented as a modification to the income tax system. Permaculture and Bill Mollison: perpetual spinach and Swiss Chard do well here. TIL there are videos about perennials and about companion planting. Potatoes in the soil below tomatoes, in food safe HDPE 5 gallon buckets with a patch cut into the side. But that's still plastic in the garden. Three Sisters: Corn, Beans, Squash. Import subst