Sahara Forest Project: From vision to reality
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- The first fully operational Sahara Forest Project Pilot Plant is built in Qatar in cooperation with the leading fertilizer companies Yara and Qafco. The Sahara Forest Project is a new environmental solution to produce food, water and energy in desert areas. It is designed to utilize what we have enough of to produce what we need more of, using deserts, saltwater and CO2 to produce food, water and clean energy.
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This is how we should use technology to benefit human kind and not for lethal weapons thank you to all who participate in this project
UnLeash go fuck yourself. you want this stuff done you better be doing it
NwoDispatcher why so angry?
UnLeash GOD bless you sir
Thorium power can! This nuclear energy is free from nuclear proliferation!
All those speaker sucking off the UN and Saudi teat. Enough money producing this nonsensical propaganda could do more good than they are getting out of this project a lot of different ways.
It's time to change the world! We should all help!
+luirocky exactly the most innovative project in ages and how man views ....lousy thousands lol.
To God be the glory , may your project prosper more in the near fututure
To much plastics, glass, CEOs...
To few forests..
You people are the real entrepreneurs. This is amazing.
Please make this video go viral, a lot of african countries need such information. Namibia (formerly known as South West Africa) is geographically located in the far south of the Sub-Sahara region. We have vast and diverse land, with a population of something below 2.5 million people. We seriously need such transformations. Come and educate us, we are hungry for education!! I am a 21 year old Namibian, studying Bsc Agricultural Economics.
What forest? It is not sustainable without the desalination plant as you are only building veggie farms. Real sustainable growth is with permaculture or even Chinas green wall where they plant real forests for decades then water table or aquifers start filling up producing springs and streams
I wonder how this Sahara Forest Project is doing now that five years have passed. It definitely is better than nothing considering that that area of Qatar was essentially devoid of any sort of productivity, but if it devolves into a small-scale project, I doubt it will have much success in getting continued funding from Qatar's government.
This guy gets it.
SaharaVegetableProject. AKA farm.
It's just the beginning.. idont think it's impossible... Good job .. our environment welcome this type of project
have you seen shubhendu sharma?
It's a start. I hope it develops and scales up quickly over the next ten years or so. It will have to if its aims and the benefits to humankind are to be fully realised! Good luck!
Wonderful seems the world still has hope.
I love it plant trees clean the trash up.
Where is the forest there?? Cucumber forest??
Tubal Cain where? west murderd gadafi all funding and projects lost
Cucumber tree exist...XD
In Quter in Arabi gulf and the experience is for all world
Tubal Cain hHahHaha I ask myself the same the Chinese are better at this that all this Europeans bureaucrats
In a desert a little dandelion is a forest
* Sahara -> Nope, it is in Qatar.
* Forest -> Nope, it is growing cucumbers in a greenhouse.
* Project -> Yes, luckily it is a project..
I have been thinking about the potential of this for years and am so glad to see it actually being tried. If the organic waste material can be sown into the ground it could lead to more arable land and the biggest carbon sink in the world. Nicely done!
Biochar
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This is priceless and incredible. We need more of this in Africa
Africans can't afford this.
If you want to grow food in the desert you should look at the permaculture design.
You make me proud of what yiu do !!! Thanks for doing this !!!
Pues ya saben lo que tienen que hacer, ponerse manos a la obra. Que el futuro no espera.
Permaculture can do the same thing, much cheaper, faster, with less water. But big business is not involved, so it won't be acted on. See Greening the Desert on Utube.
Better project south of Mecca. Guys in the Sonora Desert turned a few days of wet per year into water running on the surface for 10 months of the year.
Sounds very promising. This project definitely needs more passionate people. The two executives who were just reading from the script lacked passion n seemed they are there for the Money. People with enthusiasm and real love for mother nature can do magic to such environmental projects.
Anyways, Very good luck to Sahara Forest Project.
The desert is like a house. If it is occupied the home is sustainable. If abandoned the home will quickly degrade. We only have one planet. FOR NOW. Lets take care of our home. Makes sense
There are so many aspects that man can start do differently, using human waste to fertalize the deserts, like Isreal and Saudia Arabia do. Growing soil building plants like Hemp, Moringa, and beans. Planting drought resistant trees, planting millions of trees in general. Start using no till farming techniques.
Many of mans practiced farming ideas have failed misrebly, through many, many generations of improper interactions with the planet. Man has to work to fix things. nature knows the way
So poetic.
Loser
As much I love such things, as an expert in the area I dont see nothing new. Just simple greenhouse techniques with extra energy consuming and high cost. Not practical. Seems a skim to get money from the rich oil countries.
I have a few new ideas though ...
we draw air from the atmosphere into condensers and filters. using water falls on clean mineral stones for implosion to bring the water back to life. Using garden dome homes . That is such an awesome way to go. Following natures way is the best way. I want to help. I want to turn the deserts green it has been a dream of mine for a long time... Garden dome home and water cleaning power plants...
i am so excited , happy and sirious , how i learn my people in nepal .they have good gifted beautiful land rivar mountain himalays agriculter fild. but when they learn this chapter.man do every thing when they want. i solut sahar forest project , really apriciate.
I like the thought of countries share there knowledge if we are to advance our population at our current rates learning different methods of developing inhabitable lands for agricultural products is great and because of collection of moisture from the roofs of the green houses could well feed tress
Too High Tech!
It's not that it can be done through technology, bravo for that, but the cost must be outrageous.
Try Permaculture first and then implement other additional systems.
History shows us that bigger is not always better.
What will happen when the money runs out?
May Qatar fine a sustainable systems for their people.
+Jose Benitez no actually it could happen with moderate cost especially when you stretch the project on large scale....second thing any technology becomes cheaper after a while so optimism is conceivable here.
+New world Thank you for your response and there is no lack of optimism here.
I understand just how vested anyone is in a project of this magnitude.
Don't misunderstand, we have the technologies, but I yet to find any systems that can stand alone.
Can one walk away from this systems or have minimal input? No.
Will these systems create micro climates outside of their enclosures? No.
Are these systems capable of being run by the common man or woman? Probably not. (i.e. swales on contour and fog nets)
If We cannot implement simple and inexpendives systems it has been my experience that these systems are difficult to sustain over time.
Wishing you all the success in the world.
We're trying to tell you this adventure can go deeper and revive more and require less resources and labor as the permaculture design implementation has a lot of perennials you need to let it grow in for a few years before it picks up more and more self-reliance and strength. anyway, dream large, one-straw revolution
they make this way more complicated than it needs to be
Wouldn't changing the desert harm the indigenous dessert life there? Producing more food leads to population growth.
Good first step .. but promising. Long way to go.
I Love you guys ,one day our paths will cross and I will do my part
Trying is honored bless there effort 🙏
seems like some quite expensive cucumbers
Thanks for the info, good luck!
Thanks but no thanks. "in cooperation with the leading fertilizer companies Yara and Qafco" tells me all I need to know.
Where are you today guys?!
This video is only showing a dream!
Thanks in advance for your updates
The energy consumption for this is insane. Clickbait nonsense.
Luckily, they can harvest enormous amount of solar energy with very little effort.
No forest, and Qatar is nowhere near the Sahara.
Allan Turpin Agee, these people are seriously ignorant, It’s hurting me to think about it!!!!!
Allan Turpin These People are atrocious with geography, that is hilarious 😆!!!!!
Religión is killing those countries..
I agree. Qatar is in Arabia!
"Sahara" means "Desert" in Arabic, I believe.....though I do agree there is something very ignorant about this project...but hey, I'm not a licensed scientist ..that spends millions of dollars on cardboard technology
Just plant trees thats all we need to do. And fruit trees and grasses for the animals.
This is so amazing and needed.
Space ambition is an iddle dream there is no return of investment but in sahara forest project a lot of gain can be harvest from climate change to food sources oxygen and land for forestry
These projects are good if they have a positive effect on the overall environment. Such as helping reduce the death rattle of higher temps by growing a positive infrastructure which will help achieve that goal. Doing this just to ensure a supply of food and some basic small scale cover from advancing encroachment of the sands will be a net loss due to the high initial expense in energy, dollars and manpower. The key in the future will be to preserve the environment to allow it to maintain cold and freezing conditions, which are the root of our worlds weather patterns. If the cold cannot maintain stable temps and cold precipitation in snow, ice, etc then we're doomed. Once the heat starts going up, that's the end. But, that will happen without universal cooperation, not the kind Trump and US leaders want or the Russians or Israelis want the change that will work for all people. For once, the poor, the people who have nothing and don't expect much, the marginalized by society and by their actions and the doomed all must come together with the haves of the world.
I LOVE seeing projects that reverse desertification and reforestation, but I think it’s a big mistake to use artificial fertilisers from those 2 companies. What should be used is the human and veg waste from towns and villages etc. It could be composted on site or in the towns and villages. That would help build Humus into the desert and change its make up into soil and would be a better growing environment for Trees and other plants. People would have and feel like they have a real connection with what grows in the desert!. Millions of tons of Fruit and Veg peelings and scrap is being chucked away every day in Qatar in Landfil sites etc, even if a few Lorries have to bring Veg matter to the project every day it still would be better, even if not pre composted it could just be dug into the sand to give it substance and fertility!
You might be the dumbest person on here.
Where do I even begin.
Copper Rabbit oh yeh, what was dumb? seeing as you ‘don’t know where to start’ perhaps at the beginning!. Also 1 point at a time and I’ll gladly oblige so long as you don’t use offensive language again!.
Minimize food waste and meat consumption, share overproduced food instead of througing it away for better market prizes, etc... We dont need more food - we need to learn how to manage our current resources. Projects like this are just a drop on the hot stone.
Be realistic, your pilot project is nothing near to forest or trees. It is just some veggies. After sometime you will start to sell these veggies and same time will start production of fertilizers as well.
Had so much hope for you 6 years ago. Lease land in the Masdar solar field come to a partnership to supply cucumber sauce, Dubai Sustainable City. The real Sahara Forest Project is Africa's Great Green Wall, Geoff Lawton Green the Desert.
We also need a world-wide birth halt in a sustainable and step-wise manner that doesn't obliterate the worlds economies until a sustainable number of human beings is reached. 520 million.
@Sahara Forest Project. Ive got a good news for you. Its going to rain in northern Oman like anything else with constant rainfall next year. YOur going to see the most beautiful rain in Muscat and surrounding mountain regions.Its going be wet all day in and around mountain ranges.In past in 2014 .It happened for months and its going to come back. No more Hot desert for the northern part of Oman.😉.Pls compare recent weather conditions of oman.
👍👍👍 interesting ...
The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “The Hour will not begin until the land of the Arabs once again becomes meadows and rivers.” Narrated by Sahih Muslim 157. Meadows refers to spacious land with a great deal of vegetation.
Is this technology regenerative, or merely sustainable, or including all infrastructure, a net environmental loss?
With the money from Oil i have always thought that by putting Canals of sea water into the desert,this will evaporate and cool the air,may be even plant Mangroves along its edge,select a rushes or sedges that are salt tolerant ,like a filter,soon to have ,less salt,through the roots of these plants,so enable other plants.this im sure can work,if the will is there!
The title is wrong!!! Its an agriculture project in the desert! Which is a good investement. About the forests yes we need to Invest in that
STOP FLARING OFF GAS !
They need to Terraform it fully
Going to a desert to fight desertification is like going to the ocean to fight flood..
what will happen to the desert foxes and lizards if we make it a farm?
I'd like to invest in this, if you are making a forest. Thats a beautiful idea
Date palms will protect small plants in its shades
Israel is the best example! Thanks to the studies and commitment of goverment and population of the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel has a surplus of water!
lets get it over with. lets pave the rainforests and savannah over with concrete
The only thing we have too many of is people. 9 billion of them. The world needs to stop having so many children. After let's say, 100 years, there will be plenty of resources for everyone. No food shortages, a lot less pollution, no wars for resources, no refugee problems. etc.
Nice. Keep going never give up.
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Technological solutions like this are too brittle. Only by understanding and working with Nature and her processes will we heal the deserts
Well said .....
Heal the desert. What type of stuff are you smoking? The deserts are not sick, they are a natural ecosystem. There have been deserts for millennia and there will be deserts from millennia as long as there is a global weather system. This type of project is like plowing in the sea. A complete waste of money, resources, and a great change of destroy some endangered ecosystems. All in the name of some corporation making some quick cash of government hand outs.
You need to convert a portion of a desert into tree forest first. Establishing the trees, before you try to grow vegetables. I would suggest you to see and learn how China converts desert into forest successfully. Trees have deeper, larger and longer roots, they keep the ground moist. Don't get into this vegetables growing first, care for the land first. People are so greedy.
The whole project only has good intentions 😐
I dont see you doing anything about it
Permaculture is the real solution, not this.
Among those 'nobel' goals the main is "good for business" which is mentioned several times. Who's business? Are they really think about poor people's life or there is financial guru that will soon profit on that?
I would be interested.to participate. I believe the permaculture and ownership of the land is the solution.
I would use solar energy to desalinate seawater, start growing a forest and duplicate/expand.
Live the dream
very good
So what parts of the Sahara have been regreened since this vid in 2013?
this right path
There are plants that can be used to remove salt from the soil. Try searching "plants that remove salt from soil".
If you are evaporating seawater from those pads, they must get you must end up encrusted with salt. What happens to it? Can it be collected and sold commercially?
I think that instead of mining the fossil water under the Sahara to grow corn, as they have been doing in Libya, for instance they should use it to grow trees.
Or instead of growing corn, grow grass and use animals to regreen it all. Soon enough you wont have to drill up the water, because the roots of the grass will it hold it, and water will start flowing by it self.
But cats are scared of cucumbers
Cucumbers in Sahara..is that what forest stand for.. please visit Russia Brazil Borneo etc..
what do they do with salt that is left when the seawater evaporates?
there is this thing called a salt fairy, they put the salt under their pillows and the next morning BOOM, they have 1 million dollars
LOL I grown a forest too in my moniter while painting.
Thanks for sharing!
I could grow a bigger forest then that with stuff that I could fit into my pocket worth less than 3 dollars.
ChiefsChiLLaXN well do it then
it's depressing to see how little these managers know
The Sahara is key for reforesting. This could potentially stop hurricanes and save trillions of dollars.
Sandstorms are a huge factor in hurricane formation.
Dumbass
Copper Rabbit who?
Do your own research
Virginia Corless. Virgem e branca, nao se esqueçam. A embalagem tambem e importante para ele.
Mars next :)
The problem in desert is, there is no wetland, the forest is begin to grow from the wetland, without wetland how the forest will getting support to grow?
Question 1: Where us the forest? I've seen some great ideas for use of technology in this video, however a real forest is the only way to create a self-sustaining system in the desert.
Question 2: Did the desertification proceed so quickly that now Qatar is in the Sahara? There are regions that need these projects, e.g. the Sudan or Jordan where there are many people that are in more need. Also Qatar should question their plans for a the football world cup first, doesn't seem that responsible to build grass football fields in such a hit climate.
three more ideas the project needs to imply the first are that some of the dead biodegradables of the plants can be drye in the sun the and then burned for charcoal for soil and the second is man made aquifer and lakes the third is raising and reintroducing animals. also there should have a big variety of fruits and vegetables
It's 2018. Where is it?
At 2:37 what is that huge gas flare doing?
I was tempted to say that "This is better than nothing" - But I am not sure it is.... with nothing there would still be hope that they found a good and sustainable way to address the problem, with this, they will only focus more and more on doing it wrong...
None of them are evil, I truly believe they do their best to address the problem, but they just do not know, they are focusing time, money and energy on the wrong ideas.
What would be great was if they were to start up some other alternatives, like permaculture and holistic management. Had the things running next to each other, and see after 10 years... what really is the best way... then they could evaluate....
one more idea is that they need to make is big square tents with all four walls opened to connect more tent to one another and each tent can be made higher. this idea if for growing trees and introducing big piece of the forest also this Theory is so that the habitat sustains is self also less shock to the plants from the sun in the forest also the tent and forest should be near,close or a man made aquifers and lakes
sorry i ment near, close, or on a man made aquifers or lakes
Nice
Which plant has the largest leave: Banana tree or Gunnera manicata or raffia palm?
IT IS GOOD FOR BIG FERTILIZER COMPANIES TO GET INVOLVED IN PROJECTS TO REGREEN DESERT Areas and grow food and develop livestock. this is a very useful process.
I'm my opinion, the best location for desertification is in Egypt. The climate is less hostile than Qatar, there's abundance of land and experienced man power in farming. Plus, the Nile dumps more fresh water into the sea that can be reclaimed for such project. Too bad, they have a Government that won't allow such optimistic thinking.
Arabia Forest Project