Acting against soil erosion
Group photo after the completion of a gabion check dam (traitement de ravine in french). While the techniques of soil and water conservation are relatively widespread in the northern regions of Burkina Faso they are misknown in the South where the effects of both climate change and human pressure are becoming visible.
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- Africa (328)
- Western Africa (25)
- Burkina Faso (2)
- Exact location (-2.9836 W, 11.3007 N)
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Olympus E-400
Taken on 2
February
2010
Submitted on 1 March 2015
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Credit
Irene Angeluccetti (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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