Yacouba Sawadogo

Rarity: Common

The most frequent rarity: most Wikipedia articles become Commons.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Figure

Domain

Nature

Knowledge cost

3

Influence

5

Resistance

3

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

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.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Yacouba Sawadogo”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: EKokou, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.