Organic and Agroecology Initiative (ORAIN)
...a coalition of organic and agroecology organizations in Nigeria
Presents
Upscaling Organic and Agroecological Practices in Nigeria Series:
May 2024 Edition
Pauline von Hellermann
(@)pvonhellermannn(@)mastodon.green #ClimateDiary more on #UK harvest disaster this year. Particularly heartbreaking to read about struggles of an #agroecology farmer, who fears her veg box business might go bust.
Hidden Lotus Herbs is getting ready to move to our new #farm site and really ramp up our operations!
For some backstory,
I was the recipient of a fund from @coop to start a worker-owned #cooperative and decided to make it an herbal apothecary!
We've been operational for around six months and are now starting our regenerative agroecological farm and increasing the capacity of our free clinic.
However, the #renewableenergy systems we're building are more expensive than we budgeted for, and we could use some help getting the farm and clinic going financially.
We're really needing help from our community to make all this cool stuff happen!
If you can spare some $, please consider supporting our transition and future. If you can't, please share far and wide!
#ClimateDiary more on #UK harvest disaster this year. Particularly heartbreaking to read about struggles of an #agroecology farmer, who fears her veg box business might go bust. These are people who are trying to provide alternatives, pathways to transition - it worries me deeply that climate change is making this impossible.
Reminded again of Roger Hallam’s trajectory (founder of XR): it was his struggles as a #permaculture farmer that brought him to protest.
Explo'De "Explore to Discover" is a program of the NGO AVES (Association des Volontaires pour l'Environnement Sain), which promotes ecological transition through sustainable agriculture and responsible tourism;
Sítio Caminhos da Floresta is a farm that carries out regenerative agriculture practices, agroforestry systems, environmental education, organic food sales and courses and workshops on vegan and living food following the principles of agroecology.
Huerta Flor de Cactus trabaja desde 2002 en sistemas regenerativos de vida, agroecología, permacultura, comercio solidario, soberanía alimentaria, construcción natural, tecnologías apropiadas. Desde Ecuador, con incidencia en Latinoamérica
COOPESAFRA is a Popular Solidarity Economy Cooperative for Family Farming, Reforestation and Agroecology that aims to produce agroecological products for consumption and commercialization by its members.
We make the Agroecology Map data available in GeoJSON format so that you can use it in your analyses. You can now export all data and use it under the Creative Commons 4.0 (BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.
See how easy it is to use the Agroecology Map data in the QGIS tool
We are delighted to launch a new version of the Agroecology Map Platform. We've made minor improvements and enhanced usability. We've also fixed some bugs and improved integration with other maps.
The platform has now also been translated into French as well as English, Portuguese and Spanish.
We are proud to be part of the International Degrowth Network (IDN). IDN is a network of organizations, activists, researchers, professionals, educators and artists committed to the degrowth movement.
We believe that the Degrowth movement and the Agroecology movement have many ideas and ideals in common.
The #coffee is growing strong. It's been a struggle to keep these babies watered in this prolonged dry season, but there they are. 2024 is dedicated to getting them all in the ground across about six hectares.
They're growing fast, so getting the prep work done for their planting is the main focus.
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El #café está creciendo fuerte. Ha sido una lucha mantener a estos bebés regados en esta prolongada secia, pero ahí están. 2024 se dedica a plantarlos todos en unas seis hectáreas mas o menos.
Crecen rápido, así que lo más importante ahorita es preparar la tierra para recibirlas.
Everything is a learning curve, right? In the beginning of our #coffee planting journey, we fell into the trap of making the nursery with plastic nursery bags. There are so many issues with pests and weeds, it seemed like the most obvious solution.
But damn, that's a lot of plastic on an organic farm. And we couldn't always get the right sized bags to allow for optimal growth.
In his research, Michael re-discovered an even more traditional nursery technique - he's done it for smaller, annual plants, but never at this scale or for this kind of tree.
This is our second nursery, which consists of deep beds - they are lined with plastic, but we've avoided all those little bags. When the time comes for transplanting, the walls will be broken down and the plants carefully extracted one row at a time. The hope is to give them optimal conditions for growth and to prevent root damage upon transplant.
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Todo es una curva de aprendizaje, ¿verdad? Al principio, caímos en la trampa de hacer el vivero con bolsas de plástico. Hay tantos problemas con las plagas y las malas hierbas, que parecía la solución más obvia.
Pero eso es mucho plástico en una granja ecológica. Y no siempre conseguíamos bolsas del tamaño adecuado para permitir un crecimiento óptimo.
En su investigación, Michael redescubrió una técnica de vivero aún más tradicional: lo había hecho para plantas anuales más pequeñas, pero nunca a esta escala ni para este tipo de árbol.
Este es nuestro segundo vivero, que consiste en camas profundas; están forradas de plástico, pero hemos evitado todas esas bolsitas. Cuando llegue el momento del trasplante, se derribarán las paredes y se extraerán cuidadosamente las plantas, fila por fila. La esperanza es darles unas condiciones óptimas para su crecimiento y evitar daños en las raíces en el momento del trasplante.
Faharetana has been working for sustainable agriculture in the highlands of Madagascar for nine years, maintaining a completely self-sufficient farm using trees as the basis of its agronomic systems