Circular gardens of Senegalese plants in the defense of green wall against the desert | The larger image
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Every night Moussa Kamara (see below) works in his bakery baking hundreds of breads, but at sunrise, instead of going home to sleep, he now begins a second backbreaking job – hoeing the earth and s ‘occupy newly sown seeds in a specially designed circular garden.
Kamara shows a sketch of a garden in Tolou Keur as he addresses reporters as he sits with family members at his home in Boki Diawe.
Kamara helps install a water reserve in a newly built Tolou Keur.
Baydi Wague, 11, waters a newly planted tree in Tolou Keur.
Kamara listens to project manager Karine Fakhoury in a newly built Tolou Keur.
A member of a nomadic Fulani tribe sits on a cart as she travels with a caravan through the Barkedji-Dodji forest, which is part of the Great Green Wall of the Sahara and Sahel.
Aly Ndiaye waters trees in a newly built Tolou Keur.
Thierno Com, who learned how to build permaculture gardens thanks to the Tolou Keur program, waters a tree in a Tolou Keur in the department of Walalde in Podor.
Ibrahima Samba Diop, 75, who is one of the beneficiaries of a garden in Tolou Keur.
Kamara is preparing to plant a tree in a newly built Tolou Keur.
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Kamara the baker thinks the gardens could offer another benefit: discouraging sub-Saharan Africans from embarking on long and perilous journeys as illegal migrants in search of a better life in Europe and America.
“The day people realize the full potential of the Great Green Wall, they will stop these dangerous migratory routes where you can lose your life at sea,” he said. “It is better to stay, work the land, cultivate and see what you can earn.”
Photo retouching Marika Kochiashvili; Video production Christophe Van Der Perre, Francesca Lynagh and Lucy Ha; Copywriting Edward McAllister and Gareth Jones, layout Julia Dalrymple
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