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Document52 Profiles on Agroecology: Innovations in Agroecology – a case study from the Netherlands 2017
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No results found.In Noord-Brabant, a region in South-West Netherlands, Govert van Dis and his wife Phily Brooijmans are running an organic arable farm. The farm, around 100 hectares, is a family farm for many generations. Govert took over the farm from his parents 1980. The farm is located in a polder of reclaimed fertile clay soil, originating from 1564. From 1978 to 1992 consolidation of land in the region was undertaken to optimise agricultural practices. -
Document52 Profiles on Agroecology: Farmers improve food and nutritional security through agroecology in Mozambique 2017
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No results found.For over a decade ActionAid Mozambique (AAMoz) has worked with strategic partner organisations in the south and north-east of the country to promote agroecology initiatives with 80 farmers’ associations consisting of over 8000 farmers. 96% of the members are women and 30% of them young people, cultivating an average of 90.9 hectares per association and striving to improve agricultural production. Despite being crossed by several major rivers, including the Zambeze in the centre and the Limpopo i n the south, as well as containing a number of lakes, Mozambique has been impacted by severe and increasingly frequent and prolonged droughts over the past 15 years, resulting in long-lasting pockets of hunger. -
Document52 Profiles on Agroecology: Himalayan Permaculture Centre (HPC) 2017
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No results found.Himalayan Permaculture Centre (HPC) is a grass-roots NGO registered at national and district level. It has a focus on remote/poor/resource depleted farming communities in Surkhet & Humla districts of Western Nepal, and especially marginalised populations (women & low-caste), using low-tech appropriate technologies to increase domestic farm productivity through reducing costs of labour, money and other external resources while increasing farm diversity, resilience, health, education and livelihoo ds. The program uses models of design that can be replicated elsewhere and to do that locally trains farmer-trainers that can go to other communities to expand/roll out the working ethics, principles and techniques.
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