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The man greening Burkina Faso's desert

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Sharaph Coulibaly
November 26, 2018

Yacouba Sawadogo started planting trees in northern Burkina Faso in 1980 to stop desertification. Now at 80 he has won the Right Livelihood award and looks back to see the fruits of his labor.

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