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• The Homelands Blog

  Desert food story airs on Reveal TV

  February 9, 2015

  What if we could transform sand, salt water, sunlight, and carbon dioxide into soil, fresh water, vegetables, trees, biofuel, and electricity? That’s what an ambitious Norwegian-led initiative has been doing in the desert near Doha for the last two …

• Jonathan Miller

  Food for 9 Billion

  Could Agriculture Bloom in the Desert?

  Jonathan Miller

  Food for 9 Billion

  Could Agriculture Bloom in the Desert?

  Petroleum-rich Qatar has welcomed innovators seeking solutions to the challenges facing desert areas worldwide, from renewable energy to fresh water to food production.

  Petroleum-rich Qatar has welcomed innovators seeking solutions to the challenges facing desert areas worldwide – from renewable energy to fresh water to food production.

  One of the most ambitious experiments is the Sahara Forest Project, which looks to transform seawater, sunlight and carbon dioxide into fresh water, vegetables, trees, electricity, salt, biofuel, and animal feed.

  The technologies it uses – concentrated solar power, evaporative cooling, thermal desalination – aren’t new. The innovation lies in the combination of so many in one integrated system. Does this kind of complex, capital-intensive, high-tech solution make sense?

  This video was produced by The Center for Investigative Reporting. If the video link doesn’t work where you live, you can watch it on the PBS NewsHour website.

  Reporter: Jonathan Miller
  Producer and Camera: Charlotte Buchen
  Sound: Shiba Ranjan Das
  Editor: Linda Peckham
  Additional Editing: David Ritsher and Adithya Sambamurthy
  Additional Footage: Fay Abuelgasim, Elie Khadra, Fred de Sam Lazaro
  Thanks to: Qatar TV, VPRO Television, Chad Heeter
  Senior Producer: Cassandra Herrman
  Executive Producer: Sharon Tiller

  Date

  June 11, 2013

  Other Contributor(s)

  Charlotte Buchen

  Outlets

  PBS NewsHour

  Tags

  Themes: Food, Environment, Technology

  Regions: Middle East

  Media: Online, Video

  Other Contributors: Jonathan Miller

  Other Tags: Sahara Forest Project, Qatar, desert

• Sandy Tolan

  World Views

  Coming North

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  Sandy Tolan

  World Views

  Coming North

  A visit to a shelter for transients in the Mexican border town of Nogales, where would-be migrants prepare for the harrowing trip across the border to the United States.

  A visit to a shelter for transients in the Mexican border town of Nogales, where would-be migrants prepare for the harrowing trip across the border to the United States. Tens of thousands of Mexicans and Central Americans have passed through the shelter, undeterred by the frequent deaths of their compatriots in the Arizona desert.

  Date

  May 2001

  Outlets

  All Things Considered

  Tags

  Themes: Lives, Economy, Culture

  Regions: North America

  Media: Audio

  Other Contributors: Sandy Tolan

  Other Tags: migration, desert, migrant, nogales, journey, trip, shelter