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Meet Eden Farmer Alhadji Bukar

Posted in January 8th, 2009
by Esther Garvi in Eden Foundation, Life in Tanout, Sustainable development, Things you want to know about Niger

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Meet Alhadji Bukar, an Eden farmer in the Tanout area.

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14 years ago, Alhadji Bukar joined the Eden program and started to sow edible trees and bushes in his field. Today, these trees and bushes are well established and produce food, even during years where there is little rain. The Eden trees [...]

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Hanza and aid prejudice in Niger

Posted in August 12th, 2008
by Esther Garvi in Aid politics, Cultural differences, Eden Foundation, Favourite posts, Sustainable development, Things you want to know about Niger

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 [...]

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Luxury cooking with famine food ingredients

Posted in July 25th, 2008
by Esther Garvi in Healthy living

Past Tuesday, after coming home from a full day at the field station, my sister suggested we treat ourselves with some good food and a cosy evening in front of the TV. I asked her want she had in mind (foodwise), and she said: “Oh, can’t you make one of those nice pasta dishes that [...]

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Rising world food prices & the Lost Treasures of Eden

Posted in June 9th, 2008
by Esther Garvi in Aid politics, Eden Foundation, Experiencing Africa, Favourite posts, Sustainable development, Things you want to know about Niger

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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 [...]

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Famine food steals the show

Posted in June 2nd, 2008
by Esther Garvi in Healthy living, Life as a volunteer

When I had my Jamaican neighbor over for a ‘famine food’ recipe last week, she thought the Boscia senegalensis was really good, and that it tasted a bit like peas. It was her idea to serve it like a vegetable, so today I had her over for a fabulous-looking new dish, namely the Hanza sallad! [...]

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The ‘Sauce de Tanout’ Solar Cooker Recipe

Posted in May 29th, 2008
by Esther Garvi in Experiencing Africa, Favourite posts, Healthy living, Life as a volunteer, Nigerien culture & traditions, Solar cooker recipe, Things you want to know about Niger

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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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Introducing Boscia senegalensis from nature’s pantry

Posted in May 27th, 2008
by Esther Garvi in Cultural differences, Eden Foundation, Healthy living, Life as a volunteer, Nigerien culture & traditions, Things you want to know about Niger

From a world market perspective - where the global spotlight stays focused on a handful of species that still produce the majority of the food despite the fact that there is a total of 78,000 edible species available in the world (an untapped resource for the upcoming ‘world food crisis’) - it would not be [...]

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