I looked it up:

Wage subsidy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_subsidy :

> A wage subsidy is a payment to workers by the state, made either directly or through their employers. Its purposes are to redistribute income and to obviate the welfare trap attributed to other forms of relief, thereby reducing unemployment. It is most naturally implemented as a modification to the income tax system.

Permaculture and Bill Mollison: perpetual spinach and Swiss Chard do well here. TIL there are videos about perennials and about companion planting. Potatoes in the soil below tomatoes, in food safe HDPE 5 gallon buckets with a patch cut into the side. But that's still plastic in the garden. Three Sisters: Corn, Beans, Squash.

Import substitution industrialization > Latin America,:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Import_substitution_industrial...

"The Biggest Mapping Mistake of All Time" re: Baja and the Sea of Cortez: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hcq9_Tw2eTE&

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is derided as untrue. See also links to "War is a Racket", which concludes with chapter "5. To Hell With War"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit...

Structural adjustment > Criticisms:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_adjustment

Golden rule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule

The "Farming Simulator" game has the user operate multiple labor positions on the farm as concurrently as they can master.

We can't do similar backpackers-style field labor because there aren't travel visas that are also work visas FWIU.

Volunteering while on a student visa is fine AFAIU. Non-commercial open source software development is also something that folks enjoying their travels can do for no money here.

Laser weeding is still fairly underutilized. There's not yet an organic standard for herb. Nicotine is an approved "organic* pesticide, for example.

Here we have Arbor Day Foundation, which will ship 10 free saplings for an easy annual tree survey.

TIL trees can be shipped domestically in a trianglar cardboard carton, in a plastic bag, with a damp sheet of paper around their roots.

It may be the work of Greening Australia that I've heard about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greening_Australia

One of a number of videos about planting trees on YouTube: "Australia's Remarkable Desert Regreening Project Success" https://youtube.com/watch?v=HRo0RG02Mg0&

I've heard that China has changed their approach to fighting desertification in the Gobi desert; toward a healthy diversity of undergrowth instead of a monoculture of trees; ecology instead of just planting rows of trees that won't last by comparison.

Half Moon Bunds look like they are working to regreen the Sahel.
Bunds would require different farm machines than rototilling tractors that cause erosion.

"Mastering the Art of Half Moon Bunds" https://youtube.com/watch?v=XyH6dFlv9dk&

Andrew Million's light board videos are a great resource, as a software dev with no real experience in hydrological engineering for sustainable agriculture.

"Inside Africa's Food Forest Mega-Project" https://youtube.com/watch?v=xbBdIG--b58&

"Flight of the Conchords" (HBO) and "Eagle vs Shark" are from NZ.

From YouTube playlists:
Derek from Veritasium, The Slow Mo Guys, The Engineering Mindset, Morello, Jade from upandatom, Sarah from Chuck, and Synthony are all from AU as I recall.

"Be Kind Rewind" (2008)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Kind_Rewind