Cultivating cotton intensively comes at a high price: the use of pesticides kills pests – and all other insects. Even the farmers are taken ill by the poison.
Being exposed to the sun for about half a year, large areas become desolate. And when the rain comes, the soil, as hard as concrete, cannot absorb any water. A fatal cycle.

What remains, is
wasteland. Desert.

On the other hand, agriculture is one of the most important levers for change, development activist Behra says.
He is sure: “Prosperity can also be achieved by alternative methods.”

In Burkina Faso, the Frenchman has developed an economic model that benefits both, nature and development.