Sahara Forest Project

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The Sahara Forest Project AS is a Norwegian private limited liability company. The purpose of the SFP AS is to create profitable innovation and development of environmental solutions within the food, water and energy sector. This is achieved by bringing The Sahara Forest Project technology to the market in relevant countries. The Sahara Forest Project AS is operating under the Ethical Guidelines for commercial initiatives set out by The Sahara Forest Foundation. The main shareholders are Michael Pawlyn, Bill Watts and Bellona Holding.

The Sahara Forest Project Foundation facilitates and promotes research, knowledge and the use of technologies which enable revegetation and the creation of new jobs through the profitable production of food, water, biomass and electricity. The SFP Foundation has established a set of Ethical Guidelines applicable to all commercial Sahara Forest Project Initiatives.

Visit www.saharaforestproject.com -- the website dedicated to the project.

ARTICLES
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Magnus Borgen/Bellona

[ 29.11.2012 ]
The first cucumber harvested at The Sahara Forest Project Pilot Facility in Qatari desert – giving hope to climate talks up the road
MEASAIEED INDUSTRIAL CITY, Qatar – Today the first cucumbers from the much anticipated Sahara Forest Project Pilot Facility were served to VIP guests and workers at the site of the facility within the Measaieed Industrial City in Qatar. After 10 months of intense construction, the guests could today also tour the project that promises to turn the desert green, producing their arable land and fresh water, in a program developed by Yara, Qafco and The Sahara Forest Project.
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Ill.: Gerilja

[ 24.04.2012 ]
Studies on green growth show great opportunities for the Sahara Forest Project in Jordan's desert
At a high-level seminar in Jordan today the Sahara Forest Project (SFP) will present three possible studies that have been undertaken since the foundation signed an agreement with Jordanian authorities to testing and explore possible development of the project’s technologies in the country.
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Sahara Forest Project - illustrasjon

[ 19.04.2012 ]
Possibilities for green growth in Jordan to be release next week
Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon will be on hand when the Sahara Forest Project presents the results of three extensive feasibility studies for green growth in the deserts of Jordan at a seminar this Tuesday, April 24.
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Ill.: Sahara Forest Project

[ 27.02.2012 ]
New ambitious environmental agreement signed today: Giant Step towards green desert
The Sahara Forest Project, Bellona’s signature initiative for bringing arable land to desicated climates, has today signed a deal with the QAFCO fertilizer company and chemical company YARA internatonal ASA to build a pilot plant to make the desert green.
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[ 16.06.2011 ]
“We´re going to make the desert in Qatar green!”
PRESS RELEASE: Fertilizer companies contribute to growth of Sahara Forest Project. The Sahara Forest Projects enters into cooperation with Yara, the world largest supplier of fertilizer and the Qatari company Qafco, the world’s largest single site producer of urea and ammonia.
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Sahara Forest Project Foundation / Screenergy

[ 11.01.2011 ]
First Sahara Forest deal kicks off ambitious green desert project in Jordan
A land use deal inked today in Jordan sets the scene for the unfolding of a daring project that may just yet turn Sahara into a green oasis. Bellona’s president Frederic Hauge, who has travelled to Jordan to take part in the signing, called the agreement “a giant step forward in our efforts to realise the Sahara Forest Project."
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