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Sustainability in 3rd world agriculture
Oz wrote:
sw writes Absolutely. Funny you should mention that, there's a piece in the paper about a local charity operating in Rajasthan. Started when a local doctor travelled out with a school group and saw just how bad things can be in a poor agricultural area. They raised UKP40,000 the first year to fund education, health care and women's programmes, and are now close to UKP100,000 per year. When there was a major drought, resulting in both food shortage and unemployment -- there's no work for ag workers if there are no crops -- the charity mobilised money to build concrete watertanks and construct contour bunding to catch surface water on the fields, paying the ag workers to do the work. End result, they had money to buy food and the improvements improved their lives and crops in the long term. *That's* how aid should work. Now look here! This just has to STOP. It simply isn't acceptable behaviour from either of us. It lets the side down. One should maintain standards. I'm supporting you in another thread, and here you supported me. It just won't do. What will everyone think? That we've finally got the dosage right :-) regards sarah -- Waist deep, neck deep We'll be drowning before too long We're neck deep in the Big Muddy And the damned fools keep yelling to push on |
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