In Episode 4 of the series, Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys with the UN World Food Programme to the edge of the Sahara Desert in the Abeche and Mongo regions of Chad. He visits 3 projects where massive dykes have been to hold back floodwaters and soak the water into the ground to create fertile well-watered farms and recharge water tables.
EPISODE 1: Inside Africa's Food Forest Mega Project
 • Inside Africa's Food F...
EPISODE 2: How Refugees are Greening the Edge of the Sahara
 • How Refugees are Green...
EPISODE 3: How Africa's Great Green Wall is Solving an Ancient Conflict
 • How Africa's Great Gre...
WFP Resilience Building:
https://www.wfp.org/re...
Coordinates of major sites visited (paste these into Google Earth):
1st site at Tabarka Village: 13°56'29.82"N 20°50'50.00"E
2nd site in Tandou Valley: 13°47'29.11"N 20°53'55.38"E
3rd site outside Mongo: 12° 6'18.59"N 18°40'27.13"E
Thanks to Evelyn Fey of the WFP media team for camera and drone videography
Special thanks to BOMBINO ( https://www.bombinomus... ) for use of music tracks.
Digital Map Animation thanks to Ben Missimer of Pearl River Eco Design:
https://www.pearlriver...
Oregon State University Online Permaculture Design Course:
Droits de l’homme : des gendarmes tirent à balles réelles sur un groupe des femmes à Abéché
Droits de l’homme : des gendarmes tirent à balles réelles sur un groupe des femmes à Abéché
Dans un communiqué de presse parvenu à notre rédaction ce samedi 23 février 2019, la Convention Tchadienne de Défense des Droits de l’Homme(CTDDH) informe l’opinion nationale et internationale que dans la journée du 23 Février 2019, des gendarmes et des policiers à leur tête le COMLEGION récidiviste Hamit Batite ont tiré à balles réelles sur un groupe de femmes à Abéché chef lieu de la province…
34. Chad _ a School for Darfurian refugees in Abeché_
_School for Darfurian refugees, Abeché_
Chad, in Central Africa, is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest and Niger to the west. Part of France until 1960, it endured three decades of civil warfare, as well as invasions by Libya. Chad remains plagued by political violence.