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POPULATION
BN PEOPLE
ENERGYCONSUMPTI
ONEJ
ENERGYRELATED
CO2
EMISSIONSGt CO2
DEMANDFOR CEREAL
MT / YEAR
WATER SCARCITY
BN AFFECTED
ARID AREASHA IN
MILLIONS
MEGATRENDS 2010 - 2050
6.9 9.3 490
1000
30 57 2100
3000
0.7 4.1 2550
3125
Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway“This is an example of the need for new and environmental friendly technologies to contribute to both increase the global production of food, but at the same time reduce the global emissions of greenhouse gasses.”
Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, Prime Minister of Qatar“I think this will not be important only to Qatar, but to the whole region and elsewhere where they have the same climate as Qatar. So, I have a lot of hope.”Andris Piebalgs, EU Energy Commissioner“The Sahara Forest Project appears to be a very interesting example of the more integrated and holistic kind of thinking that we will need a lot more of in the future to make our energy, water and industrial systems more sustainable.”
ENDORSEMENTS
Olav Kjørven, Assistant Secretary-General of UNDP“This is a gold standard in a day and age where we have a hot and crowded planet, and we need to move towards a low-carbon future fast.”
By building SFP training centers
For both high and low skilled workers
By producing clean energy and capturing CO2
Because resource security is closely linked to stability and peace
CREATING SOCIETAL BENEFITS
Knowledge Transfer
Employment Fighting climate change
Resource accessibility
355 HA
480 HA
150 HA
75 HA
640 HA 1500 HA
500 HA
300 HA
GREENHOUSE
FODDER CULTIVATION
REVEGETATION AREAS
CSP FACILITY
ALGAE CULTIVATION
HALOPHYTE CULTIVATION
EVAPORATIVE PONDS
INFRASTRUCTURE
SCENARIO: 4 000 HA
SCENARIO: 4 000 HA
RESTORATIVE FOODS170 000 TON
TOMATOS / YEAR
PERMANENT CO2
STORAGE50 000 TON / YEAR
CLEAN ENERGYFOR EXPORT300 GWH / YEAR
BIOFUEL7.5 MIL. L / YEAR
EMPLOYMENTOF 6000 PEOPLE ANDSUPPORT OF 30 000
INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIESIN THE MAGNITUDE OF USD 1.5 – 2 BN
FAO
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations:
“This case study (The Sahara Forest Project) illustrates how an integrated food production facility grows high-quality and diverse food productions in desert areas, minimizing energy and freshwater needs”
“The results of the nexus rapid appraisal show that this intervention performs very well in the Qatar context”
“The intervention has an outstanding performance regarding water (water is transformed into food very efficiently and the amount of freshwater used is low) and employment aspects (few people are needed to produce the energy needed and the vegetables); and water is particularly under stress in the context of Qatar”.
RESULTS
Up to 15 degrees cooling in summer
Yields in pilot stage competitive with leading European greenhouse operations
Water usage is half of comparable greenhouses in the region
Year-round production of high quality crops
Seawater-cooled greenhouse
RESULTS
Evaporative hedges provided up to 10 degrees mean temperature reduction
Greenhouse and evaporative hedges provided wet-cooling efficiencies without cooling towers for the Concentrated Solar Power facility
19 desert plants and vegetable and grain crops successfully cultivated outdoors throughout the year
Hedges, CSP and outdoor vegetation
MATCHING YEARLY IMPORT TO QATAR
Cucumbers8 hectares of greenhouse production
Cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers and aubergines60 hectares of greenhouse production
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