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The Man Who Stopped The Desert
Yacuba Sawadogo has no formal education, but he reinvented agriculture in the Sahel, recruiting termites and planting trees to build a living barrier that could hold back the desert. In the process, Sawadogo went on to feed his village and become a hero, and his methods are now being taught across Africa.
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