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Category Archives: Environment
Post-War Peace on the Shores of Lake Tanganyika: Riding High!
Civil war officially ended in Burundi in 2006. For several years thereafter, there have been sporadic fights and attacks, but these, too, have dwindled to almost ‘zero’. What changes has a blanket of peace brought? This blog concentrates on post-war activities on the … Continue reading
Thanksgiving – and A Military Coup – in Sudan
Reposted for Thanksgiving 2012: In 1988 I became COP (Chief of Party) of the field component of a large natural resource management project in Western Sudan that was funded by USAID (US Agency for International Development). Situated south of el-Obeid, … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Food, Food & Politics, Humanitarian Assistance, Research & Development, Social Life, Sudan
Tagged el obeid, Geographic information system, Geographic Positioning System, gum arabic tree, Sudan, Sudanese, Thanksgiving, United States Agency for International Development, united states geological service
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More Pig and Pork Stories
[First posted July 2009, Revised 09 December 2011] Pigs have had a contentious history. To begin with, they usually reside near the bottom of the livestock prestige pyramid, with cattle, horse and camel occupying the higher niches, sheep, goats and poultry found … Continue reading
Colonial Musings on Mount Cameroon: Out with the Plantains! In with the Coffee & Sugar!
Colonial world views were, on the whole, extraordinary. Explorers and missionaries marched out to record, save and reorder the world according to notions of Progress that placed Europeans at the apogee of Civilization (self-defined) – and ‘Everyone Else’ pretty far … Continue reading
Cuisines and Crops of Africa, 19th Century – The Limits of Pastoralism as a Lifestyle
[First posted 24 Oct 2009 Revised 04 November 2011] With the Horn of Africa so much in the news now, I am updating and reposting several links that focus on limited resources in the area. Summary: The importance of the relationship … Continue reading
Posted in Africa-East, Breeds of livestock, Colonialism, Cuisine, Environment, Explorers & exploration, fat-Tailed sheep, Food, Horn of Africa, Humanitarian Assistance, John Hanning Speke, Kenya, Livestock, Middle East, Nomadic lifestyle, Pastoralism, Somali, Somalia, Sourcd of the Nile, Swahili coast, Third World, Wild honey
Tagged Africa, East Africa, Horn of Africa, John Hanning Speke, Middle East, Mogadishu, Nile, somali, Somali people, somalia
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Batwa Pots in Burundi: Traditional Clay Pot Cuisine, Pt. 1 of 2
[First posted in 2009, Updated 25 October 2011] The Batwa pygmies of central Africa were the earliest inhabitants of the area, being later joined by Bantu agriculturalists who migrated over time from West Africa. As hunter-gathers, theirs has been a … Continue reading
Posted in Africa-General, Batwa, Burundi, Colonialism, Cuisine, East central Africa, Environment, Explorers & exploration, Hotel Club du Lac Tanganyika2, Humanitarian Assistance, Pottery production, Technology, Uncategorized
Tagged Africa, Africa-General, Bantu languages, Batwa, Burundi, Humanitarian Assistance, Pygmy peoples, Roger Blench, Twa, West Africa
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Sorghum ‘Stew’, Dry Land Bamboo – & Spatial Analysis in the Gum Arabic Belt of Sudan
The last blog entry mentioned that in the area of the Blue Nile in which Sir Samuel Baker was traveling in 1861 there had been extensive stands of dry land bamboo, and that in the early 1990’s I was part … Continue reading
Posted in Africa-General, Agriculture, Cuisine, Environment, Middle East, Research & Development, Uncategorized
Tagged Acacia Senegal, Agroforestry, Al-Ubayyid, Bamboo, Blue Nile, GIS, GPS, Jebel Dair, Khartoum, Sahel, Samuel Baker, Sorghum, Southern Sudan, Sudan, Tropical Africa
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