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Food+Drink
for All
Dialogue study
Process similar to Delphi-Method with an OpenSpace-Online®-Session
1. Dialogues with 25 very diverse people based on the overview of issues
below.
2. From these, an easily readable summary will be published
3. The 25 partners in a dialogue exchange with another 30 people from
very different backgrounds talk
 about
their experiences, commentaries, suggestions in an Open-Space-Online® in
small groups.
These
group workshops are completely documented and summarised.
4. From this a second easily readable summary will be published.
At the present time we are looking for sponsors for the dialogue study.
OpenSpace-Online supports a creative exchange with concrete results without
travelling. Each participant works from his/her own PC and is facilitated
through the program in the easiest way with hardly any preparation necessary
and no individual post-processing (all done automatically, see http://www.openspace-online.com).
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Organic
Tomatoes from an Oasis in the Sahara
The northern rim of the Sahara is as close to Central Europe as the south of
Spain, where most of the vegetables in winter come from. But the rim of the
Sahara has 2 major advantages:
• Even in winter, the sun shines every day (contrary to the
Mediterranean, a “winter-rain area”)
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Half the transport is by ship, which is cheaper and more environmentally
friendly and still takes only
48 hrs. to the German border.
There are date palms with delicious “Deglet Nour” dates
in the oases on the rim of the Sahara, some of them certified organic.
They drill deeply for water to grow more date palms and they get
artesian water with a temperature of 60 – 80° C. That
is too hot for irrigating. It’s being used to heat greenhouses,
because it gets very cold at night in winter. 95 % of the water
is used afterwards for irrigating the date palms and only 5 % for
the tomatoes, cucumber and bell peppers. All of this exists already
in the south of Tunisia, but not in certified organic quality.
Alex van Winden, a greenhouse expert, who has run greenhouses in
Saudi Arabia for 5 years, Mohamed and Raja Fareh, who operate a
small agricultural trading house in the area and Conrad Thimm,
who does the project management and marketing are collaborating
in the project. Now they are looking for investors for 300,000 € for
the first 4 ha. The location allows for up to 40 ha in cultivation.
The project is heavily subsidized by the Tunisian government as
a lighthouse project for employment in a region with huge unemployment.
80 – 800 women will be employed in the greenhouses.
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