Aqaba forestation project finds support at London initiative – Jordan The Sahara Forest Project (SFP), Bellona Foundation and Ernst & Young (EY) signed a new partnership agreement during the London initiative to boost climate-smart food production and a desert greening project in Jordan using sunlight and seawater. “We are proud to be invited to this important high-level conference in London in order to launch a new milestone agreement for the SFP operations in Aqaba, Jordan”, Frederic Hauge, founder of the Sahara Forest Project, said in statements made available to The Jordan Times. Aqaba forestation project finds support at London initiative – JordanHIWI042019-03-03T08:14:32+01:00
Growing crops from seawater takes root in arid Jordan desert The innovative facility brings together saltwater cooling and solar-powered desalination technology to produce both vegetables and fresh water. Water-poor Jordan has launched a project that uses seawater coupled with clean energy to produce crops in an arid desert not far from the Red Sea. Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, which contributed most of the $3.7 million cost, inaugurated the facility in the kingdom’s port city of Aqaba this week. Haakon told reporters he was “impressed by the way innovative ideas have been translated into a plant the size of four football fields.” […] Growing crops from seawater takes root in arid Jordan desertDME GmbH2017-09-11T17:34:57+02:00