The production of key resources, such as clean water, clean energy and a sustainable production of food represents some of our time’s greatest challenges. The Sahara Forest Project is a new environmental solution that provides a holistic approach to tackle these challenges.

 

The Sahara Forest Project has a vision of creating re-vegetation and green jobs through profitable production of food, water, clean electricity and biomass in desert areas. This is done by combining already existing and proven environmental technologies, such as evaporation of seawater to create cooling and distilled fresh water (i.e. in a saltwater based greenhouse) and solar thermal technologies. In this way The Sahara Forest Project is designed to utilize what we have enough of to produce what we need more of, using deserts, saltwater and CO2 to produce food, water and energy.

 

 

Open position as Cultivation Coordinator

Do you want to be a part of an international and innovative team developing groundbreaking environmental solutions in Qatar?

 

The Sahara Forest Project is hiring for the unique position as Cultivation Coordinator at our Pilot Facility in Qatar. As Cultivation Coordinator you will oversee and operate a state-of-the-art algae cultivation and test facility as part of our Pilot Facility. The facility will be the only of its kind in Qatar and the larger region and will enable commercial-scale research on the cultivation of marine algae. The Pilot itself will provide a unique research platform to demonstrate and optimize environmental technologies to enable restorative growth in desert areas around the world. The size of the pilot is 10 000 m2, combining seawater greenhouses, solar power technologies, mariculture operations and revegetation practices.

 

A full description of the position is available here.

 

 

 

Plans for green growth in the Jordan deserts. High-level seminar puts the spotlight on new opportunities

In the presence of HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway and the Jordanian Minister of Environment, HE Yaseen Khayyat, The Sahara Forest Project presents for the first time the results of their feasibility studies for Jordan. The Sahara Forest Project and The Norwegian Embassy to Amman bring together a wide range of international and Jordanian delegates from academia, industry, governments and organizations.
 
A folder with background information and key results can be downloaded here.

 

 

Fertilizer companies as catalysts for greening the desert

The Sahara Forest Project AS today signed a cooperation agreement for building a Pilot Plant in Qatar together with Yara International ASA and the Qatar Fertiliser Company, Qafco.

 

Download the presentation here

 

 

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