• This Ecosia video is about a forest garden that provides food and income to a family in Senegal. 
• The garden is planted among trees and native plants, which helps maintain biodiversity, increases soil health, and provides nutritious food to the family. 
  

Positives

• This is a great example of a win-win climate solution that can reduce poverty and hunger, benefit biodiversity, and reduce damaging land use changes, such as deforestation.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• You may want to periodically pause the video to make sure your students have time to read the closed captioning and translated text.
  

Differentiation

• Social studies, math, or economics classes could use this resource as a way to discuss personal finances, the financial and social benefits of growing some of your own food, or to estimate a family's annual savings if a home garden was able to supply a certain percentage of their groceries.
• Science classes could use this resource when discussing the carbon cycle, photosynthesis, nutrient cycling, or ecosystems.
• Other resources to consider on this topic include this lesson about regenerative farming, this video about regenerative farming, and this table of solutions to climate change.
  

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