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In my life, there are lots of animals, but some will for always stand out a little more than others.
When my beloved Aslan had piroplasmosis a few months ago and died despite a very positive prognosis, I couldn’t blog about it. In life, there are a few things that happen that just aren’t “fair game”, […]
Today is Anette’s birthday, and so what better than to post some Isolde highlights from her first week in life? Here is a post for all horse-lovers!
DAY ZERO: Arwen hasn’t more than come back from her afternoon walk when she starts foaling. Ali heads out to inform Anette, who arrives 12 minutes later to a […]
Cash handouts - the solution for West Africa or another way of keeping the aid circus running?
IRIN (Integrated Regional Information Networks), which is part of the UN but supposedly editorially independent, recently published an article about aid and cash handouts, entitled “West Africa: Do high food prices warrant a cash response?”
Experts say many of […]
On Sunday, Hanna and I wanted to venture down the Falu Mine on a guided tour. We were joined by Rachelle from the Cayman Islands; a relative of Hanna who was in Stockholm for the weekend to attend a wedding and who came to Falun for the day. Having never been down a mine before, […]
Famine food or luxury food?
Hanza beans & wild Swedish mushrooms, both straight from Nature’s Pantry!
On July 16th, Sean Callahan, a top Catholic Relief Services (CRS) official, appeared before US congress to recommend “urgent response” to the people affected by the global food crisis:
In some regions of Niger, families have started eating only one meal a […]
An expat friend wanted to see the Zinder race track, and so I offered to bring him there on horse. As Arwen is heavily pregnant and Sahara was still limping slightly, Ali brought over Maya and Freya from Gill’s concession and the four of us headed out on a very pleasant excursion.
The track was vast […]
The following chronical was originally published in Bergens Tidende on april 28th. Entitled “Apologize, Egeland”, it was my response to Jan Egeland’s dead silence concerning his dealings with the Niger 2005 famine scam, a “famine” he was so involved with that he credited himself for having solved the entire issue. With Egeland having recently visited […]
Where were you, twenty years ago?
This very day, twenty years ago, I was visiting the field station with my family to see the development of the new mud buildings that Eden was setting up in Dalli, 13 km south of Tanout city.
Although the buildings themselves were nice, the field station did not make that much […]
Copyright Eden Foundation
I hear aid workers in town talking about the need for emergency food operations in Niger again, and on UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund site, I read the following about Niger’s current state:
Almost 30% of the population is in need of emergency food aid
CERF 2008
And there we go again… It’s a never ending […]
Copyright Eden Foundation
The Eden farmers and their families mix the cooked Maerua crassifolia leaves with crushed peanuts, decorate with an onion and sell it in the village. There is a lot of money to be made this way, because the meal is good!
And so when making one of the two casseroles I was going to […]
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