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Completely stunning photos!
One great plataform is Agroecology Map in Brazil, take a look at “Mapa da Agroecologia” at https://mapadaagroecologia.org/
Hi Marcelo — this is a great resource! Thanks for sharing.
Hallo I am interested to know about the role of community promoters and have tried using email above for enquiries about the project but it has been returned to me.
Please can you make contact and share information about them. I am a volunteer researcher looking at best way to give training and support to local farmers in Malawi
Thanks
Hi Susan, thanks for your comment! We have recently had some problems with our email site, for which we apologize. Please email rbeznerkerr@cornell.edu for any further inquiries. We hope to hear from you soon!
Soils, Food and Healthy Communities X Wikifarmer – A cooperation proposal
Hello,
My name is Aggeliki Milioti, and I am a Strategic Partnership Associate at Wikifarmer. Ι have been following your work for quite a while now and I found it really interesting. As a result, our team would like to promote the amazing work your organization is doing, by building a partnership.
Wikifarmer(https://wikifarmer.com/) has been characterized as ‘’The Wikipedia of farming’’(https://www.fao.org/e-agriculture/news/introducing-wikifarmer-wikipedia-farming) by FAO. More specifically, it is a worldwide collaboration with the mission of empowering and educating farmers across the world. In 2020, Wikifarmer helped almost 4.700.000 users to be informed on agricultural topics and by 2023 this number will multiply, as our platform will be available in 10 more languages.
As you understand, sustainability is for both of us a concept of great importance and for this reason, we strongly believe that such a partnership will empower both sides. Among others, we could exchange content for our websites, discuss new ideas and concepts and promote your actions, like webinars or events, through our platform. Moreover, it would be our pleasure to become part of your network.
Please do not hesitate to contact me for further information and suggestions.
Kind regards,
Aggeliki Milioti
Dear Aggeliki, thanks for your note. I think we responded by email to your offer, please let us know if you have not received our response. Thanks for your support for our work!
Best regards,
SFHC team
Hello,
I was very interested in learning about the incredible work that you are doing in Malawi. Together with my counterpart Kerime, I have been managing a small teaching farm in northern Togo for the past two years. We focus of implementing and training others in agroecological techniques and reforestation to improve food security and protect the environment in the area where we work. While I know that Togo is quite far away from Malawi, I would love to talk sometime to learn more about your experiences and would welcome any suggestions you may have for a newly beginning community agriculture project.
Thank you,
Michael
Dear Michael, Thanks for your comment. Sorry for not seeing it, we had some problems with our website this year and had to get it fixed. Please feel free to write us at sfhc@gmx.com for getting in touch and exchanging about your experiences in Togo.
Sincerely,
SFHC team
Hello, did you received my E-Mail from 10th June? I kindly ask to have a short video call to present our Project CrypDonate and how we could support you with donations. Thanks a lot!
Best regards from Austria,
Christian
Hello Christian, Thanks for your comment. We did not receive your email. Perhaps you can resend?
Best regards,
SFHC team.
Hello,
Just checking to see if you received my email from August 7th or if there is a better way to reach you other than email.
Thanks!
Hello Mel, thanks for the reminder, I will respond by email.
Good evening. My name is Camilo Salcedo and I want to fit with your needs in order to help to protect the environment and encourage the agricultural development of the planet. I am Colombian and my country is really important for the stability of the earth. Here is a video that I did in Warsaw that resumes what I said. I hope we can create an alliance in order to be successful in our purposes. Best regards.
https://www.facebook.com/camilo.salcedo.161/videos/10223712213058814
Having followed the agroecology movement for many years, I admire the way you have applied its ten elements to Malawi. Yet laudable as that is, I believe our most pressing need now is to prepare for impending climate change food shocks – the drastic, destabilizing effect that increasingly extreme droughts, fires, surface water and aquifer depletion, heat waves, and floods will have on our food supply.
I would like to share my research on this topic with someone at SFHC who would be interested to hear how the most effective and feasible preparation is implementing agroecology beyond farming systems. It is galvanizing a healthy, scalable, whole-food production and distribution system that features a food footprint only one percent that of the US industrial food system. (I don’t know how much land is required to feed one person for a year using farm-level agroecology.)
The basic unit of this system is a self-sufficiency garden that supplies a year’s worth of a balanced diet for one on a 35’x40’ plot, using hand tools only, in an enjoyable hour a day. Please let me know if someone at your organization would like to know more about why such “ultra-local” food production provides by far the most powerful, flexible, and reliable way to prepare for food shocks.
My background: MS, PhD in botany, UW-Madison: Humboldt Research Fellow; USDA-funded crop breeder; 37 years of research and teaching university botany, biology, environmental science and sustainability innovation; lifelong gardener.
Regards,
David G Fisher
Greetings from kisii Kenya we are non profit organization upamo NGO supporting agroecology projects among others we are looking for partners to support our project in kisii Kenya Africa
Looking forward to hearing from you soon
Hello, I have cooperated with a small NGO in your region, Sustainable Development Solutions (SUDESO), lead by Rhollent Kumwenda at Ekwendeni. Recently, he proposed to establish a small farming initiative in Emvuyeni community at the Fwiliwindi conical hill. I investigated the area on Google Maps and then came across your organisation operating a training and research centre just a few km away from that location. Are you active in the villages between the hill and South Rukuru River? If yes, would it make sense that Mr. Kumwenda contacts you before starting a new project?
Sincerely
Georg Hansen