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    What’s in a potato? A visitor to Ethiopia tastes the seeds of change

    06.01.2016

    It is a platter of boiled potatoes. Steaming, damp, large, plain boiled potatoes. That’s all it is. But of course, it is infinitely more than that. For one, it’s a shaft of sunlit hospitality from a deeply kind and generous people. After a long chat in a cornfield in the village of Michael...

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    9th World Congress on Snow and Mountain Tourism

    06.01.2016

    The World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) and the Government of Andorra, in collaboration with the parish of Sant Julià de Lòria , will organize the 9th World Congress on Snow and Mountain Tourism (2-4 March 2016). Since the first edition, the main objective of the Congress has been to provide a...

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    Ethiopia: Harnessing Water Resources for Renewable Energy

    05.01.2016

    Traditionally, Ethiopia is referred the water tower of Africa. The abundant water resources are manifested by rivers, underground water, ponds and lakes. The availability of seasonal rainfall in Kiremt and Belg seasons makes the water volume to increase. In addition, the mountainous physical...

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    Now NASA wants to grow potatoes on Mars for real

    05.01.2016

    In the hit movie, “The Martian”, NASA astronaut Mark Watney survives by planting potatoes in one of the modules of the Mars base who is stranded at. The plot device received a great deal of praise from space agriculture experts, according to a recent story in Popular Mechanics. Of course,...

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