SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Yacouba Sawadogo

1946 - 2023

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Yacouba Sawadogo (1946 – 3 December 2023) was a Burkinabé farmer and agronomist who successfully used a traditional farming technique called zaï to restore soils damaged by desertification and drought. Such techniques are known by the collective terms agroforestry and farmer-managed natural regeneration. A 2010 documentary feature film, The Man Who Stopped the Desert, first screened in the UK, portrays his life. Sawadogo was a native speaker of Mossi. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yacouba Sawadogo is the 354th most popular social activist (up from 431st in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Burkina Faso (up from 9th in 2019) and the most popular Burkinabe Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Yacouba Sawadogo ranks 354 out of 840. Before him are Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven, M. N. Roy, Cindy Kiro, Hazi Aslanov, William I, Margrave of Meissen, and Feodosia Morozova. After him are Borys Romanchenko, Mehdi Huseynzade, Yun Hyon-seok, Deniz Gezmiş, Satish Kumar, and Muhammad Zaidan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Yacouba Sawadogo ranks 335. Before him are Farag Foda, Angéla Németh, Milena Canonero, Lesley Ann Warren, Alberto Colombo, and Stuart Wilson. After him are Christopher Hampton, Robert Fisk, Jürgen Croy, Jacques Tardi, Joseph Sifakis, and Camilo Sesto. Among people deceased in 2023, Yacouba Sawadogo ranks 221. Before him are Sandra Day O'Connor, Dean Smith, Ama Ata Aidoo, Romualdo Arppi Filho, Alfredo M. Bonanno, and Murat Karayılan. After him are Jim Brown, Oleg Protopopov, Alma Adamkienė, Kenneth Anger, Carmen Sevilla, and Bobby Hull.

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In Burkina Faso

Among people born in Burkina Faso, Yacouba Sawadogo ranks 8 out of 49. Before him are Blaise Compaoré (1951), Ibrahim Traoré (1988), Philippe Ouédraogo (1945), Roch Marc Christian Kaboré (1957), Maurice Yaméogo (1921), and Michel Kafando (1942). After him are Saye Zerbo (1932), Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo (1942), Diébédo Francis Kéré (1965), Gérard Kango Ouédraogo (1925), Gilbert Diendéré (1960), and Gaston Kaboré (1951).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Burkina Faso

Among social activists born in Burkina Faso, Yacouba Sawadogo ranks 1. 

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