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Check out a video from our visit to Kristof and Stacia Nordin’s Permaculture project outside Lilongwe, Malawi:
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Nourishing the Planet
A Worldwatch Institute Blog
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Worldwatch Institute's Sustainable Agriculture Program highlights the benefits to farmers, consumers, and ecosystems that can flow from food systems that are flexible enough to deal with shifting weather patterns, productive enough to meet the needs of expanding populations, and accessible enough to support rural communities.
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For those keen on farming I would like to draw your attention to ‘Crow’s Footing,’ which is a way of planting seeds that was told to me by my grandfather. Instead of planting seeds in a set distance between rows (in squares) we can use equilateral triangles to plant the seeds. The rows are closer together but the seed rows are planted out of sync with the rows on either side. In this way I found it possible to increase food production by 30%. This is an interesting statistic for those with ‘green fingers’ and I have been campaigning to have it used in the Third World for many years. Not only can the amount of ‘cash crops’ can be increased, but more importantly, so can subsistence crops, which are much more important. Fertilizer and insecticide is also cut with this way of planting.