Many of the areas in the north of the country are affected by desertification. The inability to practice subsistence farming makes people flee from small villages like this, surrounded by the advancing desert.

Children stocked water in a “barrage”, an artificial basin, located not far from the capital Ouagadougou. Water collected in these basins is often the only one available for entire areas of the country.

The water of the “barrage” is almost always muddy and dangerous to drink if not treated, but in the dry season, that the ongoing climate change has made ever longer, is often the only one available for the needs of the people living in the small rural villages.

At night, to escape the high temperatures of the day, women gather drinking water from a well not far from the city of Guye. An area where water scarcity has become chronic.

The elders of the village of Gouema, not far from the city of Kaya, rebember how less than 40 years ago around their villages lived, lions, elephants and other large mammals. Disappeared due to the change in climate that made the area dry and free from water sources.

This "barrage" is located a few kilometers from the village of Gouema, not far from the city of Kaya, located about 100 km from the capital Ougadoungou. The village elders remember that less than 40 years ago the presence of lions was constant around the body of water. The change in the local flora, due to that of the climate, has caused the disappearance of the wild mammals that inhabited this area and consequently that of their predators.

The “medicine man” from the village of Gouema, not far from the city of Kaya, receives some customers from neighboring villages. Climate change has transformed the vegetation of this area of the country, making it very difficult for him to find the plants used to prepare the medicines.

Traces of a settlement in the area of Gouema, not far from the city of Kaya, indicate the presence of a village in the past. Today, in most of this area, climate change has made the territory totally inhospitable to human life.

Many of the villages located in the areas most affected by climate change suffer from severe water scarcity, which often makes any form of subsistence agriculture impossible.

Pottery shards found in the area of Gouema, not far from the city of Kaya, indicate the presence of a village in the past. Today, in most of this area, climate change has made the territory totally inhospitable to human life.

Sorgho Mahamadi , the young director of a “Terre Verte” project started in Gouema, not far from the city of Kaya, from foreign GNO but now managed by the locals. Project that aims to combat desertification through the regeneration of degraded land and rendered unusable by drought.

Women at work in the “Terre Verte” project to regenerate desertified land in Guié, about 70 km from the capital Ouagadougou.

The plants used for reforestation in the “Terre Verte” project for the regeneration of sterile land in Guié, about 70 km from the capital Ouagadougou, are planted one by one.

In one of the farms involved in the “Terre Verte” project, in Guié, about 70 km from the capital Ouagadougou, a farmer has created a "compost" production site. The compost, made from vegetable waste, will then be used as a natural fertilizer in the regenerated areas of land.

The 'Terre Verte' project to regenerate desertified land in Guié, some 70 km from the capital Ouagadougou, involves local schools. The students prepare pots of soil for plant cuttings to regenerate desertified areas and make them suitable for subsistence farming again.

Project “Terre Verte”. Once grown the plants continue to be watered individually until the development of their root system does not allow it to search the water in depth.

One of the areas of farmland regenerated under the project “Terre Verte” developed in Guìé.

Sorghum (Sorghum vulgare) is one of the plants often used to cultivate the land regenerated by projects against desertification, adapting to drought conditions and providing a cereal that can be used for human food.

The neobé, the cowpea (Vigna unguiculata), one of the vegetables traditionally grown in Burkina Faso, is among those suitable for the land torn from desertification.

As part of the "Terre Verte" project to combat desertification, selected seeds are used to withstand conditions of water scarcity.

In the Namassa market, the vegetables produced by the “Terre Verte” project against desertification developed in Guié are sold. Thus providing local people with a source of income.

In Burkina Faso, one of the consequences of climate change is disastrous floods which, in one night, can destroy an entire crop or, in cities, tear down homes and small businesses.

Floods, which in Burkina Faso, due to the climatic changes taking place in the country, occur more and more frequently even outside the canonical rainy season, can block the life of cities, including schools, for days.

A small soap factory run by an NGO was almost completely destroyed by a violent hurricane who struck the city of Ougadougou. Meteorological events of this type are increasingly frequent in the African country due to climate changes that have been going on for years.