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Growing Power - Millennium Villages

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Growing Power

Growing Power à Chicago aide les collectivités en s'appuyant sur les gens de milieux les plus pauvres pour développer des circuits d'alimentation alternatifs et durables. Des premières initiatives se développent en Afrique sur ce principe: il s'agit notamment de renforcer la sécurité alimentaire pour les enfants scolarisés et les soignants en Afrique du Sud et le Zimbabwe - Ce programme vise à aider les gens à utiliser leurs propres ressources pour cultiver des aliments. Ce modèle est à l'avant garde des "technologie appropriée" sans le recours à des ressources externes, des produits agrochimiques toxiques, et des semences protégées par des brevets.

Growing Power transforms communities by supporting people from diverse backgrounds and the environments in which they live through the development of Community Food Systems - Milwaukee-Chicago - Inspiring communities to build sustainable food systems that are equitable and ecologically sound, creating a just world, one food-secure community at a time.

http://www.growingpower.org/

Video - Growing Power is a short story of Will Allen who is the founder of "Growing Power Inc.". Will Allen, our Chief Executive Officer believes, "If people can grow safe, healthy, affordable food

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozvrp_uTH98

The Growing Power Africa Initiative will strengthen food security for school children and their care givers in South Africa and Zimbabwe - This program is special because it brings Growing Power’s community-based, low-input style of agriculture to Africa to help people utilize their own resources to grow food. This model is brings the notion of “appropriate technology” to the forefront, emphasizing the need for technologies that communities can obtain and use without the reliance on outside resources, toxic agrichemicals, and patent-protected seeds.

http://www.changemakers.com/fr/node/56358

Under the Clinton Global Initiative, Growing Power takes its grassroots-agriculture model to Africa - So Growing Power will be bringing its community-based, low-input style of agriculture to Africa--under the aegis of a group most known for its top-down, Big Solution way of development work. Allen told me. She cited Growing Power's aquaculture setup, where waste from tilapia tanks is used to fertilize watercress, one example of a low-input system that could work in Africa.

http://www.grist.org/article/2009-09-28-CGI-clinton-allen-agriculture-growing-power 

I got Erika Allen, daughter of Growing Power founder Will and leader of the group’s Chicago operations, on the phone Monday to talk about the announcement.

She told me that in the current phase, Growing Power is hoping to raise $2 million to get its Africa initiative started. (The Clinton Global Initiative doesn’t so much fund specific projects as match funders with projects.)

http://current.com/156de4c

Se nourrir autrement

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chez_Panisse

Chez Panisse Foundation : The Foundation envisions a public school curriculum that includes hands-on experiences in school kitchens, gardens, and lunchrooms, and that provides healthy, freshly prepared meals as part of each school day.

http://www.chezpanissefoundation.org/

Tarzile un blog extra de cuisine autrement - La vie est simple - On découvre des produits, des accessoires, un mode de vie.

http://www.tarzile.com/

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Millennium Villages

The Millennium Villages project offers a bold, innovative model for helping rural African communities lift themselves out of extreme poverty. The Millennium Villages themselves are proving that by fighting poverty at the village level through community-led development, rural Africa can achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 and escape from the poverty trap. By applying this scalable model to give them a hand up, not a hand out, people of this generation can get on the ladder of development and start climbing on their own.

http://www.earth.columbia.edu/articles/view/1799 

Through Millennium Promise, individuals, governments and NGOs can join us in ending extreme poverty. Simple solutions like providing high-yield seeds, fertilizers, medicines, drinking wells, and materials to build school rooms and clinics are effectively combating extreme poverty and nourishing communities into a new age of health and opportunity.

http://www.millenniumvillages.org/ 

Through Millennium Promise, companies, foundations, individuals, governments and NGOs can join us in ending extreme poverty.

http://www.millenniumpromise.org/ 

The Millennium Villages project offers a bold, innovative model for helping rural African communities lift themselves out of extreme poverty. The Millennium Villages themselves are proving that by fighting poverty at the village level through community-led development, rural Africa can achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 and escape from the poverty trap. By applying this scalable model to give them a hand up, not a hand out, people of this generation can get on the ladder of development and start climbing on their own. 

With the help of new advances in science and technology, project personnel work with villages to create and facilitate sustainable, community-led action plans that are tailored to the villages’ specific needs and designed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Simple solutions like providing high-yield seeds, fertilizers, medicines, drinking wells, and materials to build school rooms and clinics are effectively combating extreme poverty and nourishing communities into a new age of health and opportunity. Improved science and technology such as agroforestry, insecticide-treated malaria bed nets, antiretroviral drugs, the Internet, remote sensing, and geographic information systems enriches this progress.

Over a 5-year period, community committees and local governments build capacity to continue these initiatives and develop a solid foundation for sustainable growth.To date, the Millennium Villages project has reached nearly 400,000 people in 79 villages. Clustered into12 groups across 10 African countries (Ethiopia,Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda,Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda), the villages are located in different agro-ecological zones that reflect the range of farming, water, and disease challenges facing the continent. Success in these different zones shows how tailored strategies can overcome each challenge.

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