Posted in October 24th, 2012
The thing I love about birthdays is that it gives you the opportunity (and the excuse!) to do something out of the ordinary, such as going up at 4am in the morning and drive out to your favourite hilltop just to have a cup of coffee and a ‘pain of chocolat’ and watch the sun [...]
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Posted in February 17th, 2011
The sun goes down over Eden’s field station, 13 km south of Tanout… Beautiful sun, beautiful skyline and a beautiful land. To meet the people of Edenland who enjoy these sunsets all the time, go to the Eden blog Stories of Edenland that was launched only ten days ago. I hope you have not missed [...]
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Posted in February 7th, 2011
Dear readers! For nearly three years, you’ve joined me in my corner of West Africa. You’ve solar cooked with me; discovered famine foods of various kinds; ventured into the heart of the Zinder bush on ambling barb horses; explored the land; met the people; visited my neighbours; gone shopping (mostly tissue!) at the colourful Zinder [...]
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Posted in March 24th, 2010
If you can turn a barren field in the heart of West Africa, into a fruit-bearing Eden Garden, you have invested in the future. Your children will grow up eating nutritious fruit, spending much of their leisure time in the field, sowing, guarding and harvesting from the trees you have established. Your Eden Garden will [...]
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Posted in November 17th, 2009
Copyright Eden Foundation Whenever things get rough or crisis occurs, I evaluate the things in life that really matter. Family is one, faith is another. The beloved animals and the endless expanse of the beautiful Zinder bush are some of the highlights that make my everyday life so rich. But at the end of the [...]
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Posted in August 3rd, 2009
Despite it being the least developed country in the world, I always miss Niger when I’m away. It doesn’t matter how well functioning my native Sweden is on the outside – I miss the simplicity of the bush, the blueness of the sky, the joy of a stranger’s laughter as we meet for the first [...]
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Posted in May 29th, 2009
Copyright Eden Foundation As we approach the end of hot season, trucks can be seen throughout the country bringing men come back from their yearly exodus. Twenty years ago, this was also the situation for the farmers of Tanout. Once the millet was harvested, the men would leave their families for a period of nine [...]
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Posted in April 28th, 2009
Last Thursday, on an ordinary day, we were driving through town on our way back to the Eden office- -when an orange truck slammed into us for no apparent reason. It would have seen the car crushed in the middle, had not my father caught a weird look in the driver’s face and thrown the [...]
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Posted in March 17th, 2009
Instead of bringing you my own world today, I wanted to give you glimpse of the world of the Eden families, which is my reason for being in Niger. I do not live in Tanout, and I have never yet had to drink water that looks like my coffee latte. Ever. But many people do, [...]
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Posted in March 13th, 2009
Copyright Eden Foundation 2009 Copyright Eden Foundation 2009 Since 1987, Eden works in the least developed area in the least developed country in the world, helping farmers turn their barren fields into fruit-bearing Eden gardens, that bear fruit all year around and require no irrigation to grow. The Eden trees give hope, that matches their [...]
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Posted in January 8th, 2009
Copyright Eden Foundation Meet Alhadji Bukar, an Eden farmer in the Tanout area. Copyright Eden Foundation 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. [...]
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Posted in November 27th, 2008
The Famine Scam (2008) – as the outside world remembers Niger in 2005 A documentary broadcast on Swedish public television on Tuesday called into question the reputation of Britain’s public broadcaster, the BBC, for filing misleading and inaccurate reports about the severity of a food shortage in Niger in 2005. The SVT report showcased efforts [...]
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Posted in November 17th, 2008
Although the baboons at the Eden office have always been beloved pets, they serve a purpose as they know intuitively what is edible and what isn’t. With so many unknown species in the Sahel, the baboons give us a good inclination on whether or not a species (or a particular part of a plant) is [...]
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Posted in November 7th, 2008
Copyright Eden Foundation I miss my mother so much. Sometimes I have words to describe it, but other times I don’t. Back in the old days, I used to be able to paint emotions with endless words, beautiful words, powerful words. Today, my heart is still. What is there has not changed, and will not [...]
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Posted in November 6th, 2008
The world is still in awe of the historical elections that took place on November 4th 2008, when the first coloured man ever was elected president of the United States of America. According to the experts, this would have been unthinkable only a few years ago. NEW YORK: Barack Obama was elected the 44th president [...]
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