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Jewish women, like their Muslim and Christian sisters, went out into the street wrapped from head to toe in a cloak of sorts (ferace) topped with a veil (marama).
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Thanks to several people in ECHO's network, we are able to offer marama bean seed to those working in very arid regions.
3: Staple crops 1996
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Tropical Legumes states that "of all the plants described in this book, the marama bean is perhaps the least developed" in scientific study or plant breeding efforts to improve it.
3: Staple crops 1996
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Notes are given on the potential of some more obscure tropical fruits, including those belonging to the Solanacea and Ammonaceae, arid zone crops including tepary beans (Phaseolus acutifolius) and marama beans (Tylosema esculentum), valuable resource shrubs and such N-fixing trees as Leucaena leucocephala, Acacia mangium, Mimosa scabrella and Calliandra calothyrsus.
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When Kamburona, who lives in the Omaheke region, 400 kilometres north of the capital Windhoek heard that the University of Namibia had begun experimental cultivation of the marama bean, he was among the first to volunteer.
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Scientists in the United States declared the marama a potential candidate for domestication in the early 1960s, and according to the FAO it is being grown in Australia.
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Ko te katoa o te whakawhiu mo tera he toru marama i te whare herehere, he whaina mo te
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Chimwamurombe and two fellow researchers joined Kamburona and 11 other locals to prepare two hectares of land and plant marama seeds.
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Another 44 farmers across the Namibia are also planting experimental fields to assess the possibility of domesticating marama in this project funded jointly by the UK-based Kirkhouse Trust of the United Kingdom, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the University of Namibia.
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Dr Percy Chimwamurombe, the principal investigator on the marama domestication project, said planting of the plant got off to an enthusiastic start in February.
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