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Dorothee
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| 05:50 PM Jan 14 2022

Dorothee

Germany

When I took the bus yesterday the bus driver had his radio on. I don’t know which channel this was, but a news reporter reported about Nigeria. He said that in addition to Corona this country also faces a spread of yellow fever. Plus many people must flee from certain armed conflicts.

| 04:12 PM Oct 16 2021

Dorothee

Germany

The newspaper ‘Südwestpresse’ now made an article about the enterprise ‘Fairgood’ which sells products made of cashew and mangos. Once the founder learned that most farmers in Nigeria hardly get by due to them getting forced by the buyers of their cashews to not peel the cashews themselves, but to instead send them to Vietnam where they get peeled faster and at lower cost via machine. So the Vietnamese receive a lot more money for just peeling these fruits within less than an hour, while the farmers are paid less for spending months taking care of the cashew plant. Plus this is not environmentally-friendly as the fruits are brought to Vietnam by plane just for profit and then move on from Vietnam to some other country where they get packed. Also most cashew farmers get forced by their bosses/ customers to grow them in monocultures which isn’t environmentally-friendly at all. Anyway ‘Fairgood’ encourages farmers to have plantations where both mango trees and cashew trees are mixed. Also they let the farmers peel the fruits themselves or hire other people from Nigeria to help peeling. Anyway the cashew nuts don’t leave the country to get peeled. Thus the farmers make a lot more money than they would have had they been forced to give away the unpeeled fruit.
By the way: You may be surprised to read in any supermarket that they claim their cashew was made in Nigeria or Burkina Faso…and not Vietnam. They don’t have to mention where they had their cashew peeled. When the cashew tree stood in Nigeria for example they can say their product originated in Nigeria.

| 02:48 PM Aug 23 2019

Dorothee

Germany

The German newspaper ‘Suedwestpresse’ says that in Nigeria the village Gomozo and four more neighboring villages don’t have access to clean water. ‘Unicef’ is going to change that. And the German enterprise.’Gardena’ is going to support them by donating two EURO per donated EURO given by a reader of the ‘Suedwestpresse’. However I’m not sure how they are going to know whether or not the donor reads this newspaper.

| 06:40 PM Jan 11 2019

Dorothee

Germany

The German monthly newspaper ‘GEO’ – January’s sample that is – says that an increasing number of scientists actually wishes that there’d be more insects to buy in Western food stores – like they already do in Nigeria for example. It’s not just that insects are more healthy than for example pork, beef or chicken! The production of insect-based meat would also contain less animal cruelty – after all insects don’t feel pain and don’t mind living in factory farming – and less harm would come to nature as insects neither produce as many waste products nor need as much food as for example cows. Even natives in American rainforests would profit from less soy being produced in their rainforests. Probably even some children would profit as they could go to school instead of having to work on a soy-plantation or guard some cows.

| 12:44 PM Nov 03 2018

Dorothee

Germany

‘GfbV’ says that this week in Nigeria about 50 Shia-Muslims were attacked and killed by the national army. The soldiers behind these killings say that these 50 men had been members of the Islamist, extremist group IMN and their demonstration that day had to be stopped by means of gunfire.

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