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150 cashew farmers to graduate from Farmer Field Schools

Imagine... you are a cashew farmer, your main income is from the sales of cashew, but you never learned about cashew farming in school. This year the yields of your cashew trees dropped, but why? is it a disease? loss of soil fertility? where can you go to ask for advise?

INTRODUCE YOURSELF HERE- Meet the Project Team

Welcome to the village of Rebecca Dulo! We are so happy that you've chosen to join our group.

Please take a few moments to post a message introducing yourself so that we can get to know you better. If you have a specific skill set that you think may be useful to our project, we'd love to know more. We are very grateful that you have chosen to volunteer your time with us and look forward to joining hands with you to make our project a success.

Votes of Support are Needed for new Nabuur Village in the Philippines!

64 more votes are needed by January 24, 2009! Please welcome the new Nabuur village of Rebecca Dulo in the Philippines by showing your support at GiveMeaning.com.

Masasi Farmers make charcoal from agricultural waste using ARTI technology

Firewood and charcoal made from tropical hardwood are the main sources of energy for the rural households in Masasi - southern Tanzania. Encroachment of natural forest has led to environmental degradation, and tropical hardwood is getting scarce.

time to look for alternative sources of energy

FARM Africa - Maendelo Agricultural Technology Fund to support Masasi Cashew Farmers

Masasi cashew farmers started joining in village associations in July 2007, since October 2007 the farmers are supported by Maendeleo Agricultural Technology Fund

Find funding for Poultry and ground nut enterprise.

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Can you search for funders that fund this kind of project we already have a plan and budget for this project.

The health care and nutrition program will become funded from within the community through the groundnut enterprise, and high protein nutrition be available from the poultry farm (eggs, chicken meat) Patients unable to be rehabilitated into the community will gain opportunities for employment.

Small-scale Farming Project Plan: Training

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The goal of the Small-scale Farming Project Plan task is to make a practical and well-founded plan for a school garden that provides the most essential food for the school children. The third phase in achieving our goal is to develop training material for the children and teachers. Our core project team (http://www.nabuur.com/en/user/marte/profile) in this work need help to create and complete the following information:

* Recommend methods about how the schoolchildren be involved in the gardening

Small-scale Farming Project Plan: Implementation

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The goal of the Small-scale Farming Project Plan task is to make a practical and well-founded plan for a school garden that provides the most essential food for the school children. The second phase in achieving our goal is to develop a school garden in the following manner:

* Recommend a list of simple, cheap, sustainable, small-scale crops to the CBSM group, as well as low-tech agricultural techniques

* Recommend methods about how the schoolchildren be involved in the gardening

* Plan and implement a school garden at the CBSM school

Small-scale Farming Project Plan: Research

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The goal of the Small-scale Farming Project Plan task is to make a practical and well-founded plan for a school garden that provides the most essential food for the school children. The first phase in o achieving this is to do the following research:

• Analyse which crops are suitable (regarding to nutritional values, soil, water, climate, resistance against illnesses, costs, yields etc.)

• Research the Nabuur forum, (e.g., Khaparapada), for discussions about organic farming, no digging, no tilling, no outside inputs, permanent beds, drip irrigation etc.

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