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F The great yield debate





>Hey all,
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>Sorry I have been conspicuously absent from a debate I was pretty involved
>in--been buisy.  A few points--
>Examples like the p[roject in India (with Dr.Venkat) is a shining example.
>I am aware of it only from the global gardener video, and I often refer to
>it.  It is an impressive example of one of the right on ways that aid can
>be a good thing.  I am excited by the people who want to collect all this
>information and develop it into a website or publicity materials.  This is
>spot-on.
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>So in keeping with that,  I would like to mention Zimbabwe.  Zimbabwe
>(ZIM) is a great countly for permaculture.  There's the Fambidzanai
>(staple food) edu. center that teaches permaculture, dryland cropping,
>brick making, beekeeping, etc.  on about 40 acres of land near Harare.  I
>spend 3 weeks there and watched about 50 rural farmers come (free of
>charge for them as they were sponsored) to get training.  Most of them
>were women, which is one of the first good examples of gender recognition
>in African Ag. I have seen.  The project is going strong, but facing
>potential problems as the land and farming issue heats up in imbabwe, lots
>of donors are pulling out.  Still, they have, through education and seekd
>distribution, touched the lives of thousands, and improved them.
>
>The same for Zim's Natural farming network, that works as an umbrella to
>promote organic ag. and PC to NGO's.  They now support a Zimbabwe
>Institute of Permaculture, a participatory land use planning group, a PC
>in schools group, etc.
>
>Again, the country is full of positive examples.
>
>As for yield research, I am about to return to post graduate school
>studing sustainable Ag, and Int. Development.  I will be doing my field
>study on the nutritional and land use impact of PC systems in "developing"
>countries.  This is years away, but I will glsdly contribute all my data
>to any publicity to help prove the worth of PC.
>
>Anyhow, gotta run. keep up the positive work.
>Tim
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>The perfumed flowers are our sisters;
>the deer, thr horse, the great eagle,
>these are our brothers.
>The Rocky crests,
>the juices of meadows,
>the body heat of the pony and the man----
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>All belong to the same family.
>				------Chief Seattle
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