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Category Archives: (Human) Development
Alhassan on Mango Grafting – Friday Flims #1
Hi everyone, Sometimes it takes a trip home to remember how much video you have saved up on your computer! I had great time showing videos I’ve taken over the last year when I was home for Christmas so this … Continue reading
Me Talking About Failure and Aid
This is a short update to share a quick one-minute video of yours truly on the Globe and Mail website talking about one of my favourite topics – aid and failure. Check it out at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/leading-thinkers/young-engineer-says-its-time-to-talk-about-failure-in-aid/article1919315/. That’s all for now – … Continue reading
Posted in (Human) Development
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Tech Startups and Human Development: Different Worlds?
This is the first post in what will be some sort of a series or at least a recurring theme on what I’ve been thinking about a lot over the past few months. There is way too much to put … Continue reading
Posted in (Human) Development
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Welcome! (Plus an intro to SLAM)
Hey Everyone, For everyone moving over from my old blogspot blog, welcome to my new online home! I apologize for the extremely long vacation from writing (and for the e-mail of all my past blogs to those of you signed … Continue reading
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Positive Results
Last Saturday started in typical fashion. After a 4:30am wake up and quick trip to Wakawaka so Dery could get some local ‘performances’ done (read: local medicine/magic/whatever) we pulled back into the market square around 9:30am to sit down at … Continue reading
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This Week on the Farm – Episode 2
Hey Everyone! Thank you so much for all of the great feedback from last week’s video. It was definitely a boost to my week! And no, I don’t just do that Ghanaian accent for fun. I remember giving a fairly … Continue reading
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This Week on the Farm – Video Blog
Hey Everyone, After a long hiatus I’m excited to announce a series of videos about life on the farm in Seripe. I’ll be filming a few short clips each week and uploading them to youtube (yes it’s possible, it just … Continue reading
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Seripe
After a few weeks of arrangements I’ve moved into the village of Seripe, just over 15km from Bole, south on the main road. I live with the a farmer named Dery Torwel along with his wife, his three daughters Anita, … Continue reading
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Two Days on A Farm (or Why It’s Hard to Be an Innovative Farmer)
When you’re from the city, two days on a farm can teach you a lot. I’m working in Ghana for the Ministry of Food and Agriculture but man do I have a lot to learn about farming. Two weeks ago … Continue reading
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One Thousand Two Hundred Eighty-Eight
One Thousand Two Hundred Eighty-Eight. The number of days between leaving Ghana in 2006 and arriving in 2010. In some ways it feels like I never left. It was almost deja vu, leaving Toronto, boarding the plane to Amsterdam, spending … Continue reading
Posted in (Human) Development, (Personal) Development
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