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  • From: bob jacobs <soilfirst@tao.ca>
  • To: permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: F The great yield debate
  • Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:16:02 -0800



>Hey all,
>
>Sorry I have been conspicuously absent from a debate I was pretty involved
>in--been buisy. A few points--
>Examples like the p[roject in India (with Dr.Venkat) is a shining example.
>I am aware of it only from the global gardener video, and I often refer to
>it. It is an impressive example of one of the right on ways that aid can
>be a good thing. I am excited by the people who want to collect all this
>information and develop it into a website or publicity materials. This is
>spot-on.
>
>So in keeping with that, I would like to mention Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe
>(ZIM) is a great countly for permaculture. There's the Fambidzanai
>(staple food) edu. center that teaches permaculture, dryland cropping,
>brick making, beekeeping, etc. on about 40 acres of land near Harare. I
>spend 3 weeks there and watched about 50 rural farmers come (free of
>charge for them as they were sponsored) to get training. Most of them
>were women, which is one of the first good examples of gender recognition
>in African Ag. I have seen. The project is going strong, but facing
>potential problems as the land and farming issue heats up in imbabwe, lots
>of donors are pulling out. Still, they have, through education and seekd
>distribution, touched the lives of thousands, and improved them.
>
>The same for Zim's Natural farming network, that works as an umbrella to
>promote organic ag. and PC to NGO's. They now support a Zimbabwe
>Institute of Permaculture, a participatory land use planning group, a PC
>in schools group, etc.
>
>Again, the country is full of positive examples.
>
>As for yield research, I am about to return to post graduate school
>studing sustainable Ag, and Int. Development. I will be doing my field
>study on the nutritional and land use impact of PC systems in "developing"
>countries. This is years away, but I will glsdly contribute all my data
>to any publicity to help prove the worth of PC.
>
>Anyhow, gotta run. keep up the positive work.
>Tim
>
>
>
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>
>The perfumed flowers are our sisters;
>the deer, thr horse, the great eagle,
>these are our brothers.
>The Rocky crests,
>the juices of meadows,
>the body heat of the pony and the man----
>
>All belong to the same family.
> ------Chief Seattle
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  • F The great yield debate, bob jacobs, 01/15/2002

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