Conserving the future
A farmers community working at the construction of a semi-permeable rock bund (digue filtrante in french). This type of construction is frequently used to fight against soil erosion in Sub-Saharan Africa. The works are done by almost the entire population of the villages nearby.
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Location
- Africa (332)
- Western Africa (25)
- Burkina Faso (2)
- Exact location (-3.0468 W, 11.3741 N)
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3648 × 2736 px;
image/jpeg; 3.9 MB
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Olympus E-400
Taken on 1
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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