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| Driving a typical "road" to a sand dam |
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| Getting drinking water |
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| Seed bank |
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| Cisterns are also used to harvest rainwater from rooftops |
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| MCC sponsored dairy cow, This has higher input costs (purchasing, higher quality feed, than "native" cows) but should provide more income. |
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| Lots of interesting geology in the area. Here gneiss, common metamorphic rock in the area. |
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| AT UDO there is an agro-forestry demo plot, with various native and non-native trees that have medicinal or otherwise uses. |
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| UDO accomodation |
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| Farming in a gully |
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| Sand dam water pumped to a holding tank for irrigation |
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| Intercropping corn and watermelons |
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| Lots of birds that I did not have a chance to really investigate. Here a hammerkop (heron) is at a sand dam. Presumably the dams also restore the local ecology, although that has not be documented to my knowledge. |
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| Seedling plot in a gully |
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| Donkey takes a break from water hauling to roll in the sand! |
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