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Dressed up and showing his new watch, Saadu poses between his Eden trees in the heart of the Tanout department: trees that he has sown himself and that are now generating an important income for his family.
Trees in Niger are an asset, and fruiting trees even more so. Eden has an […]
In the Western world, the notion of civilization is mostly focused around technological success, but in the least developed area in the poorest country in the world (that would be Tanout, yes), you will find a world totally different from your own. Here, people have time for each other, the poor laugh and the children […]
After an early lunch and a very enjoyable ride through Tanout endless landscape, we arrived at Eden’s field station, which is situation 13 km south of Tanout city (140 km north of Zinder), in the northernmost Nigerien agriculture zone.
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I am not your typical tree lover, but I work for an organisation that helps people in the northernmost sub-Saharan agricultural zone establish drought-tolerant trees and bushes that bear fruit even in times of need – and I just happen to love my job so very, very much. Knowing the amazing consequences that such long-term […]
Interviewing the nomads of Tanout in 2007 about the 2004-05 crisis
and meeting their gorgeous cows
A few days ago, Swedish anthropologist Björn Dönell responded to my post Why is there so much politics behind aid? His comment concerns the nomads, and roughly translates to:
I was dealing with Niger in 2005. Have 20 years of experience in […]
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