From left: Joakim Hauge, CEO of The Sahara Forest Project, Humoud Al-Mannai, CTO of Qafco, and Pierre Herben, CTO of Yara International. The Sahara Forest Project Pilot Facility in Qatar has successfully met expectations. The key findings from ten months operation prove the concept is effective and competitive.
The Sahara Forest Project pilot operations have verified significant comparative advantages using saltwater for the integration of food production, revegetation and renewable processes.
CEO Joakim Hauge shared the story about The Sahara Forest Project at TEDx Maastricht 2013. 900 event participants at the Theater aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht, Netherlands, and thousands on social media followed the talk. Photo: TEDx Maastricht
The US news program PBS NewsHour has featured the Sahara Forest Project in their special project ‘Food for 9 Billion’. The series travels the world in search of stories that are at the center of the challenges of feeding a planet that will reach a population of 9 billion by 2050.
Sahara Forest Project is featured by the Dutch public broadcaster VPRO TV. In the weekly news documentary series ‘Backlight’ the Sahara Forest Project is shown as an example of how technology can provide all basic needs such as energy, clean drinking water and food for the growing world population. The documentary is already made into an international version for distribution outside the Netherlands.
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