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A Taste of 2012 – Top Posts Favor Colonial Era; Food; Ancient Egypt
2012 was an excellent year for blogging. Daily reads ranged between 200 and 300, with a few entries going over 500. Readers were most interested in posts that stress the colonial era of African history, together with wildlife, traditional farming … Continue reading
Posted in Africa-Central, Africa-General, Africa-West, Agriculture, Burundi, Caravan routes, Colonialism, Contract-Farming, David Livingstone, Egypt-Ancient, Ethnicity, Food, Hotel Club du Lac Tanganyika2, Indigenous crops & medicinal plants, Lake Tanganyika, Organic Gardenig, Research & Development, Stanley and Livingstone, Wildlife
Tagged Africa, Ancient Egypt, Egypt, Fenugreek, hotel club du lac tanganyika, Indian Ocean, North Africa, West Africa
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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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Banana Beer and other Fermented Foods in Africa
Fermentation is one of the most important technologies used in pre-industrial societies to transform agricultural and wild products into highly edible and nutritional products. The fermentation process is associated with a variety of attributes, some of the most important being … Continue reading
Posted in Africa-General, Agriculture, Appropriate technology, Fermentation, Food, Food Security, Indigenous crops & medicinal plants, Research & Development
Tagged Brewing, Burundi, Central Africa, fermentation, food, Juice, Kumasi, science, Small enterprises, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tanzania
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“Efforts of Missionaries among Savages”
[First posted May 2010, Updated 30 October 2011] David Livingstone captured the imagination of Europeans and Americans in the 19th Century, many of whom saw missionizing as THE way to ‘civilize’ African populations. I shall content myself with showing to you that even … Continue reading
Posted in Africa-General, Agriculture, Colonialism, Crop harvests, Dark Continent, European colonizers, European explorers, Explorers & exploration, Hotel Club du Lac Tanganyika2, Humanitarian Assistance, Living here, Race, Religion, Research & Development, Technology, Third World
Tagged Africa, Africa-General, Christianity, David Livingston, Humanitarian Assistance, Middle East, mission, Nigeria, Sub-Saharan Africa, United States, White Man's Burden
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Mixed Cropping: A Successful Organic Strategy for Small Farmers
Long before Europeans were on the scene, Africans were practicing companion, or mixed cropping (or planting), which is a highly successfully strategy for outwitting many bugs and diseases. Continue here: Mixed Cropping: A Successful Organic Strategy for Small Farmers.
How to Make an Organic Slurry with Goat Dung, Pt.I
In our organic vegetable gardens we are working to ‘legitimate’ fertilizers that are non-chemical. By that I mean, through formal extension staff as well as by word-of-mouth, villagers have learned and/or been taught to buy chemical fertilizers in place of … Continue reading
An Upcountry Training in Semi-savannah Crop-Livestock-Tree Dynamics
I was delighted to discover that my CD of 100s of pictures, taken before my recent hospital adventure, would work – but only on a computer other than my own! Great fun to see these pictures, of recent training in … Continue reading
Posted in Africa-Central, Agriculture, Burundi, Indigenous crops & medicinal plants, Livestock, Research & Development, Research and Development
Tagged Africa, Agriculture, Burundi, Goat, Horticulture, Hutu, Lake Tanganyika, livestock, Non-governmental organization, Potato, Refugee, Tanzania
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