How to Start a Community Farm | Adam GantAdam Gant
The benefits of a community farm are plentiful, especially in urban areas, and they are a great way for you to get involved with your neighbors and form lasting connections.
Read the blog at AdamGant.org
How to Start a Community Farm | Adam GantAdam Gant
The benefits of a community farm are plentiful, especially in urban areas, and they are a great way for you to get involved with your neighbors and form lasting connections.
Read the blog at AdamGant.org
YOUR COLOUR IS GREEN - IN WOMEN FOR AFRICA - INNER WHEEL PROJECTLuisa Vinciguerra
A lot of studies on women and environment have shown that women are significant actors in natural resource management and they are major contributors to environment rehabilitation and conservation. In addressing some key environmental problems, women play a dominant role. Women, through their roles as farmers and as collectors of water and firewood, have a close connection with their local environment and often suffer most directly from environmental problems.
Women play an important role in environmental management and progress, full participation is therefore essential to achieve sustainable development.
Women play an important role in green economy too.
Nonprofit Insights: The Untapped Power of Volunteer StoriesVolunteerMatch
Your nonprofit's volunteers help at your events, organize your office, and perhaps even work virtually on grants and social media. They ask only to know that what they do makes a difference.
What you might not realize about your volunteers, however, is that they are a source of great stories to help your organization spread your message and build support. After all, who better to talk about the great work you do than those who are so passionate about it, they help for free?
But what's the best way to capture and share the stories of your volunteers? For the June 2013 Nonprofit Insights webinar, Toan Lam, creator and host of GoInspireGo.com (GIG), and Villy Wang, Founder, President and CEO of nonprofit organization BAYCAT, shared ideas for volunteer storytelling, specifically using video.
Toan provided concrete tips that anyone can use to create poignant video stories, and Villy showed us how her organization has turned volunteer storytelling into an effective and impactful way to build support.
Pink Village-a village name Nanaksagar in Chhattisgarh. This village turns pink due to its pink infrastructure as each of the house in this village is colored pink. pink is the color use here as a indicator of the house having toilet.
initial effort by the village head to make the village free from open defecation slowly followed by the villagers and there combine effort totally changes the face of the village. village head's unique idea and methodology act as a life changing scene for the villager.
within a year the village create its own identity as a pink village free from open defecation.
This village is one of the finest example of community participation in rural development.
Creative Thinking about Developing Rural Food Systemsruralxchange
A May 8, 2014 webinar from the National Alliance for Rural Policy with speakers:
Janet Kagan, Director, Art-Force Inc.
Adele Phillips, Center for Rural Affairs: Program associate, Rural Opportunities and Stewardship Program
Veronica Erenberg, Center for Rural Affairs: Community Foods Specialist, Rural Opportunities and Stewardship Program
For more information, see www.ruralxchange.net/webinars
The Mike O'Leary Travel Bursary enables an Irish veterinary student to travel to a VIVA (Volunteers in Irish Veterinary Assistance) project for a summer placement each year. The 2014 winner was Sarah Irwin.
In contrast to the highly mechanistic food production, distribution, and consumption model applied in the industrialized food system, Indigenous food systems are described in ecological rather than neoclassical economic terms.
An Indigenous food is one that has been primarily cultivated, taken care of, harvested, prepared, preserved, shared, or traded within the boundaries of the respective territories based on values of interdependency, respect, reciprocity, and ecological sensibility.
"Food sovereignty", is a term coined by members of La Via Campesina (International coalition of Peasant organizations representing 148 organizations from 69 countries) in 1996.
Asserts that the people who produce, distribute, and consume food should control the mechanisms and policies of food production and distribution, rather than the corporations and market institutions that have come to dominate the global food system.
http://www.fao.org/agroecology/en/ | Presentation by Parviz Koohafkan of the World Agricultural Heritage Foundation regarding the development of sustainable food systems. The presentation was delivered on January 31, 2017 at the CGRFA Side Event Biodiversity and Agroecology: The Agroecology Knowledge Hub.
While small scale family farmers grow food, and produce 70% of the food in this region, we remain to be poorest, hungriest, mostmalnourished? Why ? First because many of us do not have adequate access , control or ownership of the basic natural resources needed to do farming: land, waters, forests, seeds. Without land rights, we cannot decide what to plant, when to plant, where to market the produce, and in many cases, get only a 30% share of the produce of the farm. Without water rights, the fishes we could have captured in our seas and waters are first captured by big commercial trawlers, leaving so little for the many of us who would like to fish. Without forestry rights, we lose our forests to big mining and logging companies. Without rights to breed, conserve, save and exchange seeds, we will be dependent on the seeds of big and multi-national seed companies..
Second, our yields are low, of inferior quality, and we do not have the money to buy necessary inputs such as seeds, fertilizers or even farm tools or put up needed services such as irrigation, electricity.
YOUR COLOUR IS GREEN - IN WOMEN FOR AFRICA - INNER WHEEL PROJECTLuisa Vinciguerra
A lot of studies on women and environment have shown that women are significant actors in natural resource management and they are major contributors to environment rehabilitation and conservation. In addressing some key environmental problems, women play a dominant role. Women, through their roles as farmers and as collectors of water and firewood, have a close connection with their local environment and often suffer most directly from environmental problems.
Women play an important role in environmental management and progress, full participation is therefore essential to achieve sustainable development.
Women play an important role in green economy too.
Nonprofit Insights: The Untapped Power of Volunteer StoriesVolunteerMatch
Your nonprofit's volunteers help at your events, organize your office, and perhaps even work virtually on grants and social media. They ask only to know that what they do makes a difference.
What you might not realize about your volunteers, however, is that they are a source of great stories to help your organization spread your message and build support. After all, who better to talk about the great work you do than those who are so passionate about it, they help for free?
But what's the best way to capture and share the stories of your volunteers? For the June 2013 Nonprofit Insights webinar, Toan Lam, creator and host of GoInspireGo.com (GIG), and Villy Wang, Founder, President and CEO of nonprofit organization BAYCAT, shared ideas for volunteer storytelling, specifically using video.
Toan provided concrete tips that anyone can use to create poignant video stories, and Villy showed us how her organization has turned volunteer storytelling into an effective and impactful way to build support.
Pink Village-a village name Nanaksagar in Chhattisgarh. This village turns pink due to its pink infrastructure as each of the house in this village is colored pink. pink is the color use here as a indicator of the house having toilet.
initial effort by the village head to make the village free from open defecation slowly followed by the villagers and there combine effort totally changes the face of the village. village head's unique idea and methodology act as a life changing scene for the villager.
within a year the village create its own identity as a pink village free from open defecation.
This village is one of the finest example of community participation in rural development.
Creative Thinking about Developing Rural Food Systemsruralxchange
A May 8, 2014 webinar from the National Alliance for Rural Policy with speakers:
Janet Kagan, Director, Art-Force Inc.
Adele Phillips, Center for Rural Affairs: Program associate, Rural Opportunities and Stewardship Program
Veronica Erenberg, Center for Rural Affairs: Community Foods Specialist, Rural Opportunities and Stewardship Program
For more information, see www.ruralxchange.net/webinars
The Mike O'Leary Travel Bursary enables an Irish veterinary student to travel to a VIVA (Volunteers in Irish Veterinary Assistance) project for a summer placement each year. The 2014 winner was Sarah Irwin.
In contrast to the highly mechanistic food production, distribution, and consumption model applied in the industrialized food system, Indigenous food systems are described in ecological rather than neoclassical economic terms.
An Indigenous food is one that has been primarily cultivated, taken care of, harvested, prepared, preserved, shared, or traded within the boundaries of the respective territories based on values of interdependency, respect, reciprocity, and ecological sensibility.
"Food sovereignty", is a term coined by members of La Via Campesina (International coalition of Peasant organizations representing 148 organizations from 69 countries) in 1996.
Asserts that the people who produce, distribute, and consume food should control the mechanisms and policies of food production and distribution, rather than the corporations and market institutions that have come to dominate the global food system.
http://www.fao.org/agroecology/en/ | Presentation by Parviz Koohafkan of the World Agricultural Heritage Foundation regarding the development of sustainable food systems. The presentation was delivered on January 31, 2017 at the CGRFA Side Event Biodiversity and Agroecology: The Agroecology Knowledge Hub.
While small scale family farmers grow food, and produce 70% of the food in this region, we remain to be poorest, hungriest, mostmalnourished? Why ? First because many of us do not have adequate access , control or ownership of the basic natural resources needed to do farming: land, waters, forests, seeds. Without land rights, we cannot decide what to plant, when to plant, where to market the produce, and in many cases, get only a 30% share of the produce of the farm. Without water rights, the fishes we could have captured in our seas and waters are first captured by big commercial trawlers, leaving so little for the many of us who would like to fish. Without forestry rights, we lose our forests to big mining and logging companies. Without rights to breed, conserve, save and exchange seeds, we will be dependent on the seeds of big and multi-national seed companies..
Second, our yields are low, of inferior quality, and we do not have the money to buy necessary inputs such as seeds, fertilizers or even farm tools or put up needed services such as irrigation, electricity.
Farmer-led Reintroduction of Vicia faba Beans in Ethiopian Highland Farming S...SIANI
This study was presented during the conference “Production and Carbon Dynamics in Sustainable Agricultural and Forest Systems in Africa” held in September, 2010.
Similar to Lobbying: the art of the possible - BioWatch (20)
1. Lobbying success “on the ground”
Lawrence Mkhaliphi
Biowatch Agro-Ecology Manager
2. Who is Biowatch South Africa?
Founded in 1997 as an environmental and social justice NGO,
we work with small-holder farmers, other civil society
organisations and government
to ensure that people have control over their food,
agricultural practices and land within a bio-diverse,
agro-ecological and sustainable system.
Key focus areas:
Biodiversity | Food Sovereignty | Biosafety | Social Justice
Two-fold approach:
• Advocacy, research and networking
• Work on the ground with small-holder farmers
7. 1. Work with small-holder farmers
– training and support.
8. 2. Supply fencing to secure food gardens
– community erects fences.
Need access to water.
9. 3. Seed ritual event
– showcase to local municipality, traditional leaders.
10. Lessons learnt
• Let local government
see and hear what
communities need.
• Identify and
support community
“champions”.
• Show what can be done – producing much with little.
• Show government what they should be doing.
Lobbying is as much about “showing”
as it is about “telling”!