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Well, actually the entire Niger is turning green right now, but I posted a picture of last week at the field station, as that is where I am heading today. In just a few, actually, so I’ve got to run!
See you when I get back, after a day’s work in the sun!
Last week was probably the greatest challenge of the season: the sowing the new experiments at the field station.
It was fun days of hard work, involving the whole team and a lot of efficient work!
Although we aimed for five days, the team had the job done in four, and there was no quality compromise. Not […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Mr Sponheim of the Solar Cooker Archive Wiki contacted me a while back ago, and wanted me to post a profile on their site. We talked over email about solar cooker issues and he was suprised when I told him we’d bought some of our solar cookers from a local NGO in town.
Well, the NGO […]
So here’s the scenario: We head up 06.30 am (on a Saturday, yes), get the work done before the warmest period of the day sets in (when the air around your feet is so hot that it burns your skin!) and then head back in time for an afternoon ride…
If we’re lucky, the preparations for […]
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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 […]
On Monday, we went back to the field station to continue the work that was started some ten days ago.
Image from September 11th 2007
Although I love the field station when its green, I love it just as much when it the grass is dry and many of the trees has shred their leaves. It is […]
We are going back to the field station today to finish off the work that was started when we were there last.
Will probably have some nice pictures to blog about when we come back.
In the meantime, I leave you with a fresh picture for the field taken by an Eden field worker as he […]
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