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The Man Who Stopped the Desert

The Man Who Stopped the Desert

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 2, 2010

Runtime

1h 4m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

75%

Original Title

The Man Who Stopped the Desert

Production Companies

1080 Film & Television

Director

Mark Dodd

Description

As a child in Burkina Faso, Yacouba was sent away from home to study the Qur'an, where he and his classmates were almost starving. The young boys would trek across miles of wilderness, only to fall and beg at a straw hut for meagre rations. It is from this harsh background that the young farmer became determined to develop techniques that would bring exhausted soil back into production. His efforts have outdone the work of the world's leading scientists and technological advances costing millions of pounds. They may also yet prove crucial to the future of the world's rapidly growing population and global food demands.