Solidarity erases darkness

un article par Natalia Rocha and Omar Salinas

Video: Un invento interesante con una botella de plástico)

Development has become crucial for improving the quality of life. The video “Un invento interesante con una botella de plastico” (An interesting invention with a plastic bottle) shows how people can create alternatives to the conventional energy resources through solidarity, a key factor for the implementation of the Culture of Peace.

Lite on devolpment

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Because of people’s economic limitations, the topic of Sustainable The reuse of waste that normally would go to the garbage is the essential element to illuminate each of the houses of Maligaya, a little town in Philippines, where due to the kind of construction of the houses, they lack sunlight and enough economic resources to pay the service of electric energy.

The mix of plastic bottles, chlorine and water embedded in the ceiling of the houses makes easier for the sunlight to come into the houses as if it were a light bulb. This solar bottle, which was the idea of one inhabitant’s mind, has benefitted 643 houses and they have improved their human development because now they have access to light. Furthermore, this has contributed to citizen participation as all people contribute to the development of their community and they get involved on the activities. Finally, what could have been a socio-environmental problem, for this community has become a contribution to the construction of the Culture of Peace.

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Meeting the food security challenge through organic agriculture.

States should integrate organic agriculture objectives within national priorities, FAO says.

Rome, 3 May – “Organic agriculture is no longer a phenomenon in developed countries only, as it is commercially practiced in 120 countries, representing 31 million hectares and a market of US$ 40 billion in 2006,” FAO underlines in a paper Organic Agriculture and Food Security presented here at an International Conference on Organic Agriculture and Food Security (3-5 May 2007).

The paper identifies the strengths and weaknesses of organic agriculture with regards to its contribution to food security. analyzes attributes of organic supply chains against the Right to Food framework and proposes policy and research actions for improving the performance of organic agriculture at the national, international and institutional levels.

“The strongest feature of organic agriculture is its reliance on fossil-fuel independent and locally-available production assets. working with natural processes increases cost-effectiveness and resilience of agro-ecosystems to climatic stress,” the paper says.

“By managing biodiversity in time (rotations) and space (mixed cropping), organic farmers use their labour and environmental services to intensify production in a sustainable way. Organic agriculture also breaks the vicious circle of indebtedness for agricultural inputs which causes an alarming rate of farmers’ suicides.”

The paper recognizes that “most certified organic food production in developing countries goes to export” and adds that “when certified cash crops are linked with agro-ecological improvements and accrued income for poor farmers, this leads to improved food self-reliance and revitalization of small holder agriculture.” (…) Organic Agriculture website: http://www.fao.org/organicag/

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Cet article a été mis en ligne le February, 22, 2012.

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