Meet the farmers in southeastern Spain fighting desertification

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Southeastern Spain is experiencing the northward advance of the Sahara Desert, leading to declining rainfall, soil degradation, and climate change-induced droughts, threatening agricultural lands that have been farmed for many centuries.
Local farmers recently began adopting regenerative agriculture practices to better withstand long, persistent droughts punctuated by torrential rains and subsequent runoff.
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- Video chapters -
0:00 Farming Challenges
2:46 The Importance of Fertile Soil
4:33 Regenerative Techniques
7:37 Credits and Outro
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  • @dragoljubzgonjanin9631
    @dragoljubzgonjanin9631Ай бұрын

    Bravooo 👍 ❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @threeriversforge1997
    @threeriversforge19979 ай бұрын

    One key detail missed out on is how things happening way up in the hills, maybe done generations before, are causing the problems seen today. The earth moves at a very slow pace, and it's arrogant of us to think that what we did yesterday is going to show an impact today. In the US, we've learned that when the beavers were removed 100 years ago, that set in motion a very slow chain reaction that has led to the flooding and desertification of the land today. Beavers up in the mountains (which includes the Eurasion beaver) were critical to holding back the winter rainfall and snowmelt in the higher elevations. They dammed up even the smallest tributaries and gave the water time to sink into the ground. With them removed a century ago, people have forgotten they were ever there in the first place and assume the desertification is somehow tied to something entirely different. So the solution is to go up into the hills and build what we call Beaver Dam Analogs, mimicking what the beavers did. If all you have to work with is rock and dirt, that's what you use. There used to be trees aplenty there, but with the beaver gone, so went the trees and we have to do what we can with what we have. One Rock Dams, also known as Leaky Weirs, work wonderfully at backing up the water, slowing and spreading the flow, so that it has time to enter the ground. This in turn creates a lush Riparian Zone filled with grasses and small trees. And that makes the ground even easier for water to penetrate, which sets off a positive chain reaction of more growth due to the higher water table.

  • @Julian-je8jj
    @Julian-je8jj9 ай бұрын

    Qué gran trabajo.....maravilloso ❤❤

  • @Singlemotherdaily
    @Singlemotherdaily9 ай бұрын

    Video hay ❤❤❤❤

  • @magesalmanac6424
    @magesalmanac64249 ай бұрын

    What about swales and burms

  • @user-gn2hp3ct4l
    @user-gn2hp3ct4l25 күн бұрын

    Hello, I love the countryside and I love working there. Is there any work given that I am Algerian and do not have a visa?

  • @luminadoDoBronx
    @luminadoDoBronx7 ай бұрын

    The Sahara desert is not "moving up". Its Spanish regulation and water overconsumption/waste that is provoking desertification.

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    @adorabasilwinterpock6035

    2 ай бұрын

    Climate change

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