Tag: Mali

Threshing groundnuts in the field is done in several phases.   In the first stage, small sticks are used to beat the large piles of groundnuts into small crumbs.   Secondly, the women take the groundnuts and mix them with hay. Then the groundnut is separated from the hay by sweeping it up.   . When the wind blows strongly,

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Interview with the village chief of Bougarilla “In your village, what difficulties have you encountered in the area of agriculture over the last 10 years?”  “In our village, here, the difficulty we encounter in the field of agriculture is the poverty of the cultivable soil: if the soil is not fertile the yield will not be satisfactory. And if you

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The woman in the video started using the improved stove about 20 years ago. Her mother used improved stoves for cooking. It helps them to save wood because there is not enough in the forest.With the improved fireplace, two pieces of wood are enough to cook several dishes.   Since the introduction of the improved fireplace, there have been changes.

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After harvesting the potato in Monzona, here is how we dry it, preserve it and finally process it for family meals (couscous, cake, porridge). We remove the peel with a sharp knife, cut them into pieces as you can see in the photo and put them in the sun. A kilogram of fresh potato costs 100 CFA francs, while dried

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The practice of tree nurseries has been an experience for us. Before, we used to go to Kayes to pay the nurseryman 1,000 or 1,500 CFA francs. In view of this situation, one day I took a decision with some of the villagers of Bouillagui: we collected rubber milk cans to put sand in them and we sowed some fruit

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The men harvest the baobab leaves from the tree. The leaves are then dried in the sun and crushed by the women. The powder obtained is used in cooking.  

My name is Abdou Sidibé, Kayes Banzana.  I planted these trees because when we were young we used to see big trees, but now there are no more. We lack trees and the lack of trees is linked to the lack of rainfall. I felt that something had to be done and so I planted these few trees.  The beginning

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Here we see one of the maize fields in Monzona. We fertilise the soil of the maize fields with local fertiliser made from cow dung and other animals that come to spend the dry season in our fields, which are over five hectares in size, to leave their dung. It is only animals that can fertilise this crop land, our

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In Bougarila, villagers organise themselves collectively to compensate for the effects of climate change and improve harvest results. First of all, the villagers cultivate one of the village fields together.  But they also help each other on private plots, from preparatory work to harvesting! The young people of the village prepare the land together to make it a market garden.

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The phenomenon of transhumance affects Bouillagui, which sometimes has to find solutions to its negative effects, but manages to use the fertilising potential of the animals. Transhumance and deforestation Bouillagui is on the border of Mauritania, so every rainy season, if there is not enough rain or a lack of rain in Mauritania, their transhumant people move to Mali with

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