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  • From: Dennis Argall <dennisargall@bigpond.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: indonesian village, micro-loans, etc, was... [permaculture] Re: permaculture Digest, Vol 22, Issue 25
  • Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 18:36:25 +1100


On 23/11/2004, at 10:41 AM, Scott Pittman wrote:


Dennis this is the same dilemma that German farmers found themselves in Germany back in the 1830's which led to the formation of Financial Co-ops which evolved into what we know today as Credit Unions We chose this model when we founded the Permaculture Credit Union.
I also visited a unique banking system in Thailand which was a Farmer's rice bank, in which all the Farmers of a region place a certain percentage of their annual crop into the co-op, where it is stored and can be used by other farmers who have had a bad year as a loan. Basically both of these systems are user owned and because of their structure there is little to no incentive for usury.

I think that this is a great subject and is often neglected in pc conversations - this is the invisible part that is so critical to the sucess of the visible.

Scott Pittman

Gee, Scott, I signed on to this list after LL had copied that message of mine from SANET - and great perseverance brought me to find your message at the end of that toilet roll of digest material!! :-) Hope I haven't missed response from others.

Thanks for the comment.

I am actually at the point of departure for travel until 5 December, Sunday week. Will introduce myself properly when I get back. Will also extend discussion of these subjects then.

Also drawn to my attention is the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh: http://www.grameen-info.org/

and I am also aware of this cow bank concept: http://www.vcn.vnn.vn/duan_detai/ COW%20BANK%20PROJECT%20IN%20VIETNAM.htm

I think somewhere along the way there is virtue in the prospect of having a bank/banks for dealing with micro-needs not just with enthusiasms to chuck money, but also to assist people do those things that in permaculture circles we should be familiar with, to minimise need for cash and indebtedness. This would be banking of a new kind. :-)

I will still have the mail piling up in my absence, will rake through and mulch ideas people put forward in the interim if you want to discuss. The actual project in Indonesia is very small and absolutely at start-up, so I'm not keen to provide a link to it on the web at this point, boat might drown. LL is in though, I'm pleased to say, and can discuss.

cheers

Dennis
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