permaculture

[Guillermo <griromero@yahoo.com>]

Look into the model of "Teach a Man to Fish" org.  and ask Martin Burt about 
funding alternatives.


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> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:38:24 -0400
> From: Amy Little <amylittle@hvc.rr.com>
> To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [permaculture] Funding for Agroecology School in
> the
>     Colombian    Amazon
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> >Hello all,
> >
> >I am a Ph.D. candidate in the department of 
> >anthropology at the University of California, 
> >Davis and I work with small farmers in Putumayo, 
> >Colombia-  frontier department and gateway to 
> >the Colombian Amazon. As many of you may know, 
> >the inhabitants of Putumayo (mostly campesino 
> >and indigenous communities) have long been 
> >subjected to repressive anti narcotics policies 
> >and failed alternative development packages on 
> >the part of the U.S. and Colombian governments 
> >vis-a-vis Plan Colombia policies. They have also 
> >been criminalized by the Colombian state as coca 
> >growers and guerrilla sympathizers and have 
> >faced intensive cycles of violence on the part of
> paramilitary actors.
> >
> >I work with a group of campesinos in Putumayo 
> >who are self-taught agroecologists and who are 
> >building their own Amazonian agroecology school 
> >to share their knowledge about how to engage in 
> >a jungle based agri-culture with other small 
> >farmers in the region who have migrated to the 
> >Amazon from the Andean zones of Colombia. They 
> >are receiving no funding from government 
> >institutions and most of the NGOs working in 
> >Putumayo are either alternative development 
> >organizations pushing monocrop, export 
> >orientated agriculture as an alternative to coca 
> >or conservation environmental organizations that 
> >do not fund agricultural projects. These small 
> >farmers are interested in food sovereignty, 
> >community organizing, and sustainable Amazonian 
> >agriculture. I was hoping that some of you might 
> >have suggestions about possible funding sources 
> >for this school.  I would greatly appreciate any 
> >information you can provide us.
> >
> >Mil gracias!
> >Kristina Lyons
> >
> >--
> >Candidata Ph.D, Antropolog?a
> >Universidad de California, Davis
> >
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