In this week’s episode, Nourishing the Planet discusses how the Breadfruit Institute is working to provide farmers with a sustainable, low-input, and nutritious crop.
Video: http://youtu.be/wylO9wAhyVs
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In this week’s episode, Nourishing the Planet discusses how New Course is connecting on-the-ground conservation efforts with funders to ensure women farmers are involved in environmental conservation.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIGs1bG103k
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In this week’s episode, Nourishing the Planet discusses a program organized by the Resource Identification and Management Society (RIMS)- Nepal that is empowering small-scale farmers with the tools they need to adapt to climate change.
Video: http://youtu.be/-Uq_KuN0Edk
To purchase your own copy of State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet, please click HERE. And to watch the one minute book trailer, click HERE.
In this week’s episode, Nourishing the Planet discusses the Better Cotton Initiative—an international membership association made up of cotton retailers, producers, and non-profit groups—that is working in Pakistan, India, Brazil, and West and Central Africa (Benin, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso) to promote sustainable cotton cultivation that is less damaging to the health of farmers and the environment.
Video: http://youtu.be/TnVt_Y6Ysdg
To read more about the Better Cotton Initiative, see: Innovation of the Week: Better Cotton, Better Livelihoods.
To purchase your own copy of State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet, please click HERE. And to watch the one minute book trailer, click HERE.
In this week’s episode, Nourishing the Planet discusses how the Kasisi Agricultural Training Centre (KATC) is working to teach farmers in Zambia low-cost and sustainable agricultural practices. KATC offers a variety of short courses, lasting from three days to two weeks, which allow participants to gain experience in agroforestry, conservation tillage, and organic pest management.
Video: http://youtu.be/bnigw5UGMF0
To read more about the Kasisi Agricultural Training Centre, see: Innovation of the Week: Teaching Sustainable Practices to Sustain Livelihoods.
To purchase your own copy of State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet, please click HERE. And to watch the one minute book trailer, click HERE.
In this week’s episode, we discuss a program helping farmers in Tanzania work together to earn a sustainable living, while healing the land. CARE International’s Equitable Payment for Watershed Management (EPWM) program encourages, and works closely with, smallholder farmers to use intercropping and terraces to help restore—and hold in place—the soil.
Video: http://youtu.be/wGyTtJeuxkA
To read more about CARE International’s EPWM program, see: Innovation of the Week: Improving the Harvest, From the Soil to the Market.
To purchase State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet please click HERE. And to watch the one minute book trailer, click HERE.
In this week’s episode, we discuss how incorporating an Integrated Food and Energy System (IFES) can give rural and impoverished communities better access to food and reliable energy. Farmers can incorporate IFES in two ways–by using intercropping methods and growing food and fuel-generating crops, such as acacia trees, or by integrating livestock onto their farms and using biodigesters from their manure to generate energy.
Video: http://youtu.be/gPlSroOqNaY
To read about IFES, see: Innovation of the Week: Creating Farms that Produce Food and Energy.
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