The Power of Rain Drops
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- čas přidán 26. 10. 2015
- A large portion of the Namibian rangeland has been incised by erosion gullies down which much of the rainwater flows away, leaving the rangeland drier and less productive than in the past. Application of grazing management is usually insufficient on its own to restore protective grass cover where gullies dry the landscape. Therefore, various restoration techniques have been applied in different sites, relying mainly on local resources.
Namibia people should also dig the water collecting bunds like Zai, Demi lunes, swales or stone walls originated from Ethiopia or sahel belt of Africa.
Zephaniah Phiri came up with a great many solutions:
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And check dams all over the creeks and rain gullies ❤
Make swales and also small dams on the couse of creeks and rivers to kind of slow the currents down, using rocks, also sandy chicken wire traps to stop de sediments from flowing away, as well as planting drought resistant trees of rapid growth to stop erosion! So on and so forth!
Yes you right I did to my farm same
It’s good idea and better than before
Use vetiver on contour and you’ll create natural terraces
Chicken wire is expensive for them, and thusly unsustainable. Check dams, and other silt and water catchment systems are better. Use zai pits for planting trees. Vetiver needs to be purchased and that can be a financial hurdle, too.
Mostly figure where it's going wrong and fix it:
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@@dhulgariir planning on doing the same. Help nature to help you! 😎
Angry water, giggle, that's funny.
Bad water! Back to the cloud!
Love the music.
So basically the livestock has massively helped to restore the earth by literally fertilising and reshaping the soil with there feet. This is amazing
Cool beer steins on the shelf at 5:20 . Cheers!
This is excellent visual lesson for rain/land management
The best way is to make micro levy to stop the water from moving and soak on the spot.
Greetings from the LooseNatural farm in Andalusia Spain
Nice content. Keep more content coming.
Thank you
Look into Holistic planned grazing. The inventor of the method has a ted talk.
basically use livestock to replicate nature's massive herds. Grass co-evolved along with herd animals in a beneficial method.
Allan Savory
These thorny bushes are working for you
Beautiful helpful educational description of essential factual information.
Thanks and regards.
Wonderful!!!
English speakers: 13:40 creative crawling? No, creative kraal-ing, aka corral -ing.
Yeah, transcription made a mistake on that.
I hope this film raises awareness of the need to see rangelands as ecosystems and the fundamental importance of soil moisture balance. What happens to raindrops; do they exacerbate gully and adjacent sheet erosion? Or do they help heal the land with wise grazing management and key restoration works? The problem is primarily social and cultural and the ecosystem problems are a symptom.
very informative and educative...didnt here anything about animal numbers..Stocking rates..the real range problem
@@moseskamanda5577 yes we definitly need way more animals on the rangeland not less. Overrest and continual grazing area huge problem. If planned right with sufficient mob effect the animals do the restoration work.
This unfairly blames those raising livestock. Gardening with annuals and plowing does much more harm.
Additionally those livestock are being allowed to eat the grasses and forbes to nothing. They. Use b e moved to taller grass more oftten,often, well as do gully repair and earthworks. Planting trees for 'tree hay' is a possibility.
Blaming their culture and society? Really? How about either taught bad methods by chemical agriculture salesmen. That is the real problem...
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Allen Savory method!
Mark Shepard method! Mark's produces more food.look up Restoration Agriculture.
Planting more trees?
They need to learn how to build sand dams out of rocks to slow down the water and catch sediments and sand behind the rocks that extend from one side of the gully to the other. Start building many small ones higher up the where the water starts to flow. Then repeat the creation of rock dams all the way down the ravine.
The sand and sediment the is captured behind the rock dam will hold moisture for a long time.
At the bottom of the larger rock dams clear water will be produced for people and animals.
Search for videos talking about sand dams. They are made out of loose rocks to dam up the flow of sand and soil.
See how they are doing it in India .Treamendous change .unbelievable working simple-technique .
Bad planting methods are as much or more to blame for flooding. Planting for water (rain) and making rainwater-retaining earthworks is key.
Can I uses some of the images of the gully for an educational course
I recently learned about exopolysaccharides from a presentation by Trent Northen, a microbiologist. He talks about the ability of exopolysaccharide to hold soil particles together. One organism that produces said substance in arid lands is: cyanobacterium Microcoleus vaginatus. Has there ever been an attempt to find similar microorganisms native to that region that could be of help to hold soil together?
Does this help? Glomalin is a glycoprotein produced abundantly on hyphae and spores of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi in soil and in roots. Glomalin was discovered in 1996 by Sara F. Wright, a scientist at the USDA Agricultural Research Service. The name comes from Glomales, an order of fungi. This is the glue that in the darkness binds soil.
Biochar or other sources of carbon do thesame thing...
What’s the progress now? It’s 2020 August how is it looking right now?
I will research and get back.
@@rajbaniwal3236Yeah it’s now 2023🥺.
@@fancyIOPi am back in 15mins. So my thorough research indicates that this is a propaganda video to showcase a particular organisation’s attempt to change Namibia. Sad to report, nothing noteworthy has happened. Primarily because no specific areas, farms, regions were mentioned in the vid to see how those areas have made a recovery using google earth time lapse. A generic time lapse shows “seasons” of Namibia. Green, not green, brown, very brown, green” repeat.
A good educational video however I doubt it was done for PR, not for research filing. There’s no before / during / after here. It’s just an academic submission.
Thank me later. Enjoy the video.
@@fancyIOPHow time flies right? Not for Namibians though, sadly.
BTW, search for Paani Foundation, they are doing a fabulous job. They have moved from water conservation to better farming (after solving water issues” so most of the new vids are in local language but they have some very good English vids too. I had marked quite a few of the projects on Google map and from 2018 till 2023, man you can see the difference from space. They are very good at including name of the village, the district, the state etc so pretty easy to find the places and just see Google Earth time lapse. Amazing to observe.
Mostra varias vezes o mesmo e não mostra o q é feito de concreto para resolver a erosão
You can stop erosion loss without concrete. Low tech actually does better.
Watch this:
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Positivity from 12:04
The cattle are the heroes hahaha! Dung spreading meat machines with sharp pointy feet walking around in large numbers. What more to ask for? :D
The cattle can both degrade or greatly improve the soil, it all depends on how you manage the cattle. By default the former happens because that's how one grazes the cows when one doesn't understand how soil and nature work.
Those pointy toes can create divots in moist soil that capture seeds humus and water and can help reestablish plants.
Fast forward to 12:44 to get to the main point of the film.
Thank you. By min. 5 I was shit bored.
They should dig large lakes to store the water
Local is lekker
Vetiver is the solutiin
That's only a partial solution, it canbe too expensive for local farmers to purchase, too.
@@b_uppyI don't think so. czcams.com/video/TA2WhBXV_vs/video.html
I thank all those who have posted comments be they positive or negative. I make a few comments. Firstly, it is important to work within community and not for it as an "expert". Then you address the challenges and aspirations of the community rather than your parachuted expert analysis. The second is holism; understanding the complexity of issues and not pursuing a silver bullet such as a specific technique that at best has a place within an integrated approach that addresses issues such as local food security, child health and education etc.
This is just an awareness video of what went wrong and some hope for optimism if not dominated by external experts who know better than the community or those supporting them.
There is more that can be done, and maybe it is, but it's poorly documented in this video. There is some legitimate stuff in the video, which is good. Glad to see the video has Brad Lancaster link, too.
Most of the viewers only have a partial picture of how to solve it, or what is even being done. Part of their difficulty in understanding is wording /narration/and accents even. Second is lack of graphic aids to help show what is being done.
I've added links/references to other techniques to show some other possibilities, because these people have a limited view.
You'd do better to respond to the individuals than to male a blanket statement yourself off from the others. Your comment adds nothing.
Where does it Cary fertile soil away too?digging little holes?have you seen the fly catching plants?underground storage tank possible and in America one farmer uses pigs to turn soil then moves them to next patch drip irrigation water wheels.if you pull plug out of bath whilst in bath you start to realise how heavy you really are!what happened to Mist heaps compost. It doesn't happen in America does it? In parts where they have buffalo?soil very red what makes it red?making water run round in circles.
The silt is going to the sea, just like the water. And much of the redness is due to iron in the soil.
Uhmm? We don't see very many devices to slow and capture the water! Did an adult review this video prior to release? Best of luck!!
In the video it starts at about 12:00. And they work.
Here is a good video on more techniques:
czcams.com/video/D6_WZ789lpM/video.html
Water catchment is essential as is reducing animal farming in these lands.
Allen Savory says you are very wrong
Preventing overgrazing is essential. That means keeping livestock from eating the area too much. Rainwater retaining earthworks are great.
But growing food would be a better use than raising food. Cut down meat intake = a lower impact on climate (& wallet) which may have created the problem in the first place.
In a many many areas you can’t just simply grow lettuce or produce. Native grasses are always going to be more natural then vegetable developed far away. To grow a garden they would have to probably pump a ton more water which hurts the aquifer. California for instance grows vegetables and nuts and in some areas the land has fallen by twenty feet. Why? Well those foods require way more water than a grass that can live throughout a drought. To grow one almond takes a gallon of water. Now imagine just how much water it takes to make a gallon of almond milk that people are saying is better for the environment then actual milk.
You lack experience and are working on the wrong paradigm. Sounds like the oversimplified drivel I was taught in school. Check out Mark Shepard, for one, Allen Savory for another. Geoff Lawton and Brad Lancaster, all permaculturists (Savory is merely holistic). That is where farming is going.
@kolton crane
And that is in part because of bad cultivation methods. Lack of proper groundcover. Zero rainwater harvesting techniques, etc. Monocultures require more water, period.
You mimic nature with lots of diversity and appropriate plantings, as Welles good livestock management techniques, begin to restore balance.
India is doing a much better work harvesting water
India is one country and you're comparing all of Africa to this? That's disingenuous. Each country has its own levels of commitment...