permaculture

[gil carandang <gil_carandang@hotmail.com>]

hi amy!
i wish i could find you some funding to help the indigenous communities you 
are supporting in colombia.  i however can be of help in teaching and 
empowering them through our "earth-team" global gardeners network.  we 
specialize in setting up sustainable farming communities through ecological 
farm planning and microbial farming systems.  we specialize in helping 
farmers how to culture their own beneficial indigenous microorganisms and 
bionutrients to improve soil fertility and pests/diseases control.
 
gil carandang
herbana farms philippines
 
> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:04:21 -0400
> To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org; permaculture@openpermaculture.org
> From: amylittle@hvc.rr.com
> Subject: [permaculture] Funding for Agroecology School in the Colombian 
> Amazon
> 
> For anyone looking for Kristina's contact:
> kristinalyo@gmail.com
> 
> 
> >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, Antropología
> >Universidad de California, Davis
> >
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