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The Man Who Stopped the Desert

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Now, before we get into what you need to know of how you can watch 'The Man Who Stopped the Desert' right now, here are some quick facts about the 1080 Film & Television documentary flick. The Man Who Stopped the Desert starring Yacouba Sawadogo has a Not Rated rating, a runtime of about 1 hr 4 min. was calculated from verified

Want the short version of the plot? Here's the plot: "As a child in Burkina Faso, Yacouba was sent away from home to study the Qur'an, where he and his classmates were almost starving. The young boys would trek across miles of wilderness, only to fall and beg at a straw hut for meagre rations. It is from this harsh background that the young farmer became determined to develop techniques that would bring exhausted soil back into production. His efforts have outdone the work of the world's leading scientists and technological advances costing millions of pounds. They may also yet prove crucial to the future of the world's rapidly growing population and global food demands."

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