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Thanksgiving Adventures – and A Military Coup – in Sudan
Sharing with you an earlier post about Thanksgiving, people and work conducted in western Sudan; Please have a joyous Thanksgiving, my friends! In 1988 I became COP (Chief of Party) of the field component of a large natural resource management … 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, Thanksgiving, United States Agency for International Development, united states geological service
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Soil biodiversity and ecosystem function
It has long been recognised that organisms living in the soil are important for making nitrogen available to plants and for storing carbon in the soil but a new paper in PNAS by de Vries et al… Source: canwefeedtheworld.wordpress.com diana … Continue reading
Posted in Africa-East, Africa-North, Burundi, Climate Change, Desertification, Nile Valley, Research & Development, Research and Development, Sudan
Tagged Africa, Agriculture, Burundi, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, research, Sahel, Soil, Soil biodiversity, Soil type, Sudan
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Helping the most vulnerable farmers adapt to climate change – lessons from a Farm Africa project
See on – Africa and Beyond By Jonathan Finnighan Helping the most vulnerable farmers adapt to climate change – lessons from a Farm Africa project The first thing that strikes me about Mwangangi’s farm is that it looks abando… …The … Continue reading
Mungo Park Discovers a Toll Bridge made of Bamboo in the Western Sahel, 1797
During the several years of travel in the western Sahel of Africa, Mungo Park kept detailed records of the geography as well as of the people and flora and fauna of the areas through which he traveled. In this brief … Continue reading
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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Banana Beer and other Fermented Foods in Africa
Blog updated 19 May 2014 Bananas from the Burundi highlands being brought down to Bujumbura and surrounding areas along Lake Tanganyika. The supply chain for banana beer and other small and microenterprises incorporate a variety of smallholders and workers, such as … Continue reading
Posted in Africa-General, Agriculture, Appropriate technology, Beer, Feasts, 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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