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When most of us see a watermelon, we think of fresh fruit, or a fruit salad to be a little more “adventurous”. Copyright Eden Foundation In Eden Land however, the women cook with it. Copyright Eden Foundation Enjoying quiet days in the village, mother and grandmother Inna shows the Eden field worker the meal she [...]

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Famine food or luxury food? Hanza beans & wild Swedish mushrooms, both straight from Nature’s Pantry! On July 16th, Sean Callahan, a top Catholic Relief Services (CRS) official, appeared before US congress to recommend “urgent response” to the people affected by the global food crisis: In some regions of Niger, families have started eating only [...]

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With the rainy season in bloom, the garden is now full of greens. At first sight, the little plants popping up may look like insignificant weeds (or horse fodder), but on closer inspection, you will find Niger’s nature’s pantry right now in its most generous element. In addition to the hanza beans (whose fruits are [...]

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Copyright Eden Foundation 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… [...]

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Copyright Eden Foundation The Eden farmers and their families mix the cooked Maerua crassifolia leaves with crushed peanuts, decorate with an onion and sell it in the village. There is a lot of money to be made this way, because the meal is good! And so when making one of the two casseroles I was [...]

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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 [...]

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In the Western world, the notion of civilization is mostly focused around technological success, but in the least developed area in the poorest country in the world (that would be Tanout, yes), you will find a world totally different from your own. Here, people have time for each other, the poor laugh and the children [...]

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One of the many things I love about Niger is how people value fellowship. Time in the country of “sei hakuri” (have patience) does not equal money. Here, people live according to a different set of social rules, and do not see spending time with one another as unfruitful. Being together is one of the [...]

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Famine food is supposed to refer to food that is consumed in times of great need and which can act as a indication of famine or extreme difficulties, but more often than not, famine food is a derogative expression for local food in remote places that rest of the world knows little or nothing about. [...]

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Today has been a day of trivialities, where I have been doing a number of seemingly unimportant things that do not generate much inspiration for my part, but which needed to be done nevertheless. I wrestled with the KLM telephone system and finally managed to get through to right person, and got to confirm my [...]

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I slept one hour last night, but I’m doing well. Had to be up at half past five, in order to appear live at quarter past seven this morning on God morgen Norge. It was a nice brief chat with Signe Tynning and Nils Gunnar Lie and I am left wondering what Norway is thinking. [...]

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I just love this picture. Copyright Eden Foundation 2006 The children of Tanout may well be the heirs of the least developed country in the world, but they are rich in fellowship and joy. Despite our great achievements, there is an equation here we have yet to learn from them.

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When preparing for an Eden presentation I’ll be holding tomorrow, I came upon this picture (taken by an Eden field worker) which I just had to share. Copyright Eden Foundation I seem to be one of the few Western/African bloggers who do not believe that technology is going to solve Africa’s numerous issues. I am [...]

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    Copyright Eden Foundation In May this year, I came across a Swedish article that dealt with the findings of a recent report about which country was considered the best for mothers to raise their children in. The report based its findings on issues such as health care standards, female life expectancy, education, financial [...]

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