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World leaders identify solutions and call for immediate action As the youth takes to the street and the Amazon continues to burn, Councillors of the World Future Council and Recipients of the Right Livelihood …
Cairo, September 12th, 2019: Prof. Dr. Mohamed Soliman, Representative of the Egyptian Minister of Agriculture and President of the Agricultural Research Center, Uwe Gehlen Head of German Development Cooperation in …
On its desert farm in Wahat El-Bahareyya, SEKEM wants to reclaim 63 hectares of desert land through sustainable agriculture and supported by a crowdfunding campaign. Here is update number 4! …
The concept of an “Economy of Love” has been an integral part of SEKEM’s economic activities already for many years. It had been an important concern to SEKEM founder Ibrahim …
All the efforts that have been put in our project to green 63 hectares of desert land show first results. A few weeks after we started planting the first seeds …
On the international World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, on June 17, 2019 the Demeter Association for Biodynamic agriculture calls for a rethinking of agriculture and an effective climate …
Forty years after the SEKEM Initiative was founded, on June 15, 2017, its founder Ibrahim Abouleish passed away. One year later, the SEKEM community published a vision for the next …
In April, the first students of the Faculty of Organic Agriculture at Heliopolis University for Sustainable Development spent two weeks on SEKEM’s farm for practical training of the Biodynamic course …
On Thursday the 18th of April, in the golden field, in sunny Egypt, SEKEM’s colleagues and friends got together with Heliopolis University Students to reap the harvest they have sown …
The SEKEM Shop now offers carbon credits by which you can reduce your own footprint and at the same time support the Greening the Desert Campaign. The returns from the …
Recently, Heliopolis University (HU) was honoured by a visit from Dr. Michael Braungart, innovator in the field of sustainable development and co-founder of the concept of Cradle to Cradle (C2C). …
On the 8th of April, Prof. Dr. Evert Du Marchie van Voorthuysen, a Dutch expert from the renewable energy sector, gave a lecture at Heliopolis University (HU) on the contribution …
SEKEM invites you to the second phase of Let’s Seed the Future event, next Thursday April 18 on SEKEM’s main farm. We want to harvest the wheat we planted last …
The disposal or organized reuse of waste, especially plastic, is a particularly challenging problem in Egypt. Only about 60 percent of the waste is collected and less than 3 percent …
About 40 participants from Organic agriculture institutions from Southern, Eastern, Western and Northern Africa and supporters from Europe recently got together on SEKEM Farm for 3 days in order to …
Support the Campaign! Since 1977, the SEKEM Initiative in Egypt has already reclaimed and cultivated more than 680 hectares of desert land. Back then, greening the desert had been already an important …
Recently, the bfz gGmbH (Training and Development Centers of the Bavarian Employers’ Associations) and the BMZ (German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development) launched their cooperation project Organic Egypt. …
“How a living and learning community is going to develop is one of my main thoughts since the SEKEM Vision came to my mind. From the beginning, there was this …
In the framework of the Winter Conference of the Farmers Society/Demeter in the North, which took place at Landgut Stemmen in Northern Germany from 12 to 13 January, SEKEM member Maximilian …
SEKEM was announced by the World Future Council as an Outstanding Practice in Agroecology 2019 advancing the transition towards agroecology from the global South. For its leading role as a …
