# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yacouba-sawadogo
# Generated: 2026-08-15T19:03:14.986Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yacouba-sawadogo"
name: "Yacouba Sawadogo"
slug: "yacouba-sawadogo"
description: "Yacouba Sawadogo 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."
tagline: "Burkinabé farmer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yacouba_Sawadogo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1946"
deathDate: "2023-12-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.073085846867751
  historical:           15.63308933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump