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Inside Africa's Food Forest Mega-Project - YouTube (youtube.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Would this be a scalable solution to help mitigate climate change and to give room to wildlife?

It's fantastic that they can produce food, and I can see why also for political reasons food aid would be the first priority here. But it seems strange to me that companies never talk about this when they want to greenwash - replacing the Sahara with foreat seems like a potential game changer, and it seems to be something where money can really make an impact.

[โ€“] CheeseNoodle 11 points 2 weeks ago

iirc there are plenty of food forest designs that result in higher yields and better soil quality than modern industrial agriculture with less or no need for chemicals past a certain point... However they're also much more labour intensive, you basically need to plant and pick everything by hand because the whole setup is way too complicated to just pull a plow through. Perhaps one day we could do it with some kind of mass drone based approach but right now its not feasable at scale.