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[from amaah] Passive Transfer - the Eden experience in Niger
After reading Esther Garvi's blog about life in Niger, a nice intro to her foundation's approach to deal with desertification in the Sahel. Research on drought tolerant edible perennial plants, eduction of farmers, seeding etc. Striking results it seems
[from amaah] Ghanaian food in London
On the promotion of Ghanaian cuisine in England and more generally the broadening of the palate of the locals...If "Indian" food is the standard Friday night fare for the Brits why shouldn't the Africans get a piece of the pie.
[from amaah] The Case For Indigenous West African Food Culture (pdf)
Eat locally, think globally... worth revisiting 13 years later especially as western palates seek release from manufactured homogeneity. worth also considering the evolution of local tastes and the expediency of modern fast foods
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[from amaah] The weirdness of being' in Zimbabwe
I have adopted a semi-scientific assessment of risk' using what I call my 'squidgeometer'. This tool is my index finger, prodded deeply into a product to try and work out whether I am going to get very very very sick if I allow it to go any furth
[from amaah] The dying state of Ghana's poultry
Ghana now accounts for as much as 30 percent of all poultry products imported into West Africa sub region from the EU. These imports of live birds, frozen chicken parts and full chicken are posing serious threats to the local poultry industry. According t
[from amaah] Choc tactics: Cocoa co-operatives
"Kuapa Kokoo belongs to the farmers," he says proudly with a smile, in his slightly old-fashioned, broken English. "They do not attend school so they cannot do the office work. That is why having English people working for us is good! They represent us an
[from amaah] Ending Famine, Simply by Ignoring the Experts
Fancy that, a country subsidizes its farmers (fertilizer controls), improves food security and now exports. Whither free trade and World Bank prescriptions. I suppose Europe and the US don't provide agricultural subsidies to their farmers, right?
[from amaah] Nigeria's 'land of twins' baffles fertility experts
high incidence of twins has baffled fertility experts.. elaborate traditions... Yam consumption may be one explanation. Yams contain a natural hormone phytoestrogen which may stimulate the ovaries to produce an egg from each side
[from amaah] How African cocoa-growers are moving upstream into chocolate
Divine Chocolate, founded in Britain in 1998, counts cocoa farmers as its biggest group of shareholders. Kuapa Kokoo, Ghana's largest co-operative, 45,000 cocoa growers, owns 45% of Divine and has two seats on its board.
[from amaah] Poverty and Post-Harvest Fishery Livelihoods in Ghana (pdf)
The very poor in post-harvest fisheries are involved in low paid manual work such as fishing, processing, moving fish at landing sites and markets, fish hawking, net mending and firewood collection. seasonal agricultural work and petty trading. The very p
[from amaah] Why does Gabon import bananas when it has forests full of them?
Before oil was discovered in Gabon, the country was self-sufficient in bananas. By 1981 it had become almost totally dependent on bananas imported from neighboring Cameroon. a vast jungle nation where there is no one available to pick bananas off the tree
[from amaah] Black gold: Our love affair with chocolate just got darker
Dark chocolate used to be an acquired taste. The trouble is, we've all acquired it. As cocoa prices soar, and a shortage looms, our changing tastes could be threatening the very source of our pleasure
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