Bunker Roy : Apprendre d'un mouvement va-nu-pied. L'Université des Va-nu-pieds. En Inde, des milliers de paysans sortent de la pauvreté grâce à leurs innovations. Identifier, recenser et favoriser la commercialisation des innovations de paysans pauvres, tel est l’objectif de l’ONG indienne Honey Bee Network.
A l’image d’un essaim d’abeilles qui butinent en quête de découvertes, l’organisation a inventorié pas moins de 160.000 innovations depuis 25 ans. Le réseau permet aux inventeurs anonymes et isolés de sortir de la pauvreté en partageant leurs savoirs et commercialisant leur trouvaille. Rompre l’asymétrie sociale. Stimulating the rural economy. TechnoServe, an organisation with international experience in alleviating rural poverty and linking small entrepreneurs and farmers to commercial markets, could show the government how best to tap the assets of the former homelands.
A not-for-profit company, it was started by an American medical doctor and businessperson, Ed Bullard, in 1968 in Ghana. It now operates in 28 countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia. TechnoServe has been in South Africa since 2003 and has 26 staff members working on nine funded programmes, which assist nearly 900 entrepreneurs, 300 of them small commercial farmers. Small-farmer agriculture is its chief focus, but it also runs projects in tourism, construction and light manufacturing. In Southern Africa, it is most famously known for rehabilitating Mozambique's cashew industry, which collapsed after the Portuguese left.
TechnoServe is concerned not only with primary production, but also with the markets and other elements in the supply chain. Barefoot College. The Barefoot_Approach.pdf. Transfer tribal land to individuals: Agri SA. "More than 22 million people could [then] own something that they could develop and sell.
" De Jager was speaking in Johannesburg at a discussion hosted by the FW de Klerk Foundation on the recent African National Congress policy conference. Speaking later, he said there were about 22 million people living under tribal authority in areas formerly known as the homelands. This was residential land and common use land -- land used for cattle grazing for example. "It will be an exercise in wealth creation. " De Jager said a debate was currently underway in African countries such as Malawi and Swaziland over whether the traditional system was necessary.
Malawi had decided that they would abandon traditional systems but Swaziland felt traditional systems would prevail. "In South Africa that debate is not really mature yet," De Jager said. He said former president Thabo Mbeki leaned towards the modern approach, but President Jacob Zuma appeared to prefer the traditional option. Farmers could become extinct: Agri SA. Farmers could become extinct: Agri SA A worker walks between rows of vegetables at a farm. File photo. Image by: SIPHIWE SIBEKO / REUTERS Commercial farmers could become extinct in the near future, Agri SA deputy president Theo de Jager said on Monday.
"The average age of a farmer is 62 years. "This spells danger. African farmers must do more to beat climate change: study. Smallholders have started to plant more drought-resistant and faster-growing crops to keep the harvests coming in, according to a survey of 700 households in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and Tanzania.
“The good news is that a lot of farmers are making changes,” said Patti Kristjanson, who heads a programme on climate change, agriculture and food security at the World Agroforestry Centre in Nairobi and led the study. “So it’s not all doom and gloom ... but much more needs to be done,” she told Reuters. Farmers, backed by researchers and international donors, needed to find better ways to store rain water, increase the use of manure and bring in hardier crops like sweet potatoes, she said. Asia Now Blog » Barefoot College. May 26th, 2012 | Franziska | Human Rights | Barefoot College , Barefoot Solar Engineers , Bunker Roy , Empowerment of Women , Tilonia Tilonia, Rajasthan, India - the village did not have access to electricity until the Barefoot Collage opened its doors.Tilonia, Rajasthan, India - the village did not have access to electricity until the Barefoot Collage opened its doors.
Let me take you on a journey to India. Imagine a small village far away from the industrialization and the development of our globalized world. The village does not have access to electricity produced in the cities. Most of the inhabitants have never left the village and struggle to survive by farming and breading animals. This may sound as an unachievable dream, but it has actually become reality. An Indian woman learning how to install the solar lights Apart from providing education the Barefoot College also emphasizes the importance of solar energy as well as the empowerment of women. Www.grida.no/files/activities/greeneconomy/case-studies-da-india.pdf.