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THE PROGRAMS
B)Fighting with The Poor - 18 months Africa Program
B) Fighting with the poor - 9 months South America Program
This 9 months program of Fighting with The Poor will take a courageous and
futuristic view of issues the poor face in Brazil .
Currently Brazil has huge divide between rich and poor. Less than one percent
of the population owns more than fifty percent of the land, while fifty percent
owns less than one percent. Brazil is a very dynamic society with almost any
nationality represented.
We will look at and discuss the problems and the big issues regarding the future of
Brazil . Through our studies, we will gain a better understanding of how and why
this divide was created and why it still continues. This will enlighten you to the
real consequences, and harm that is caused by economic policies as well as ways
to create sustainable programs and changes for the poor.
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While Napoleon never quit
How dare Ferguson chance his chance
The poet raped the villages of poetry
Just speaking wonderful languages
The best around, yet quite sadly portrayed
We lacked understanding of those poets
New languages fear us and its teachings?
We are old to hear these issues
It is not really late for us to stop and think
This sounds good for our minds
As villagers like to see transformed townships
Yet townships have village roots, yes!
We are eventful opportunists for participation
Groundbreaking are our actions towards growth
It can't be done this way, not my way
But the best way, no better way
The best cos action makes things done
Movement pulls the sands with the times
The rivers dances to the waves
Does the great rivers and oceans understand?
Understand us more than you do?
Something sounds like probability
Aren't we humans?
The least we want to see, feel and respect
Is Africa out of the world's attention
What better alternative for our limits
For our participation from our base
We are uniting children and youths
For change
Definitely our yes is unfolding surprises
Possibilities. Opportunities. Development
Impossible alternatives would stay back
It's only our voice that can be my voice
Your voice is also my voice and leverage
Find your voice and live it
Express it. Be you
Raise you voices for youth involvement
Our challenges require children and youth
Our voices are each level of development
We deserve work and our rights
I dare you say the opposite without hate
It is not a matter of give us the ball
Make the way for us to chose
To own the balls
I dare you to proclaim with us
Change for our community is on the move
With youthful ideas, action and voices
Global citizens of our communities emerging
This is true for our generation so raped
Youth involvement is sustainable development
Count me in and count us blessed
I am the child
I am the youth with a change. Let's go there!
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IS DYING
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Actividades prácticas para escuelas primarias y secundarias
La enseñanza de los Derechos Humanos
Actividades prácticas para escuelas
ARTICLE : GM no solution to global hunger
In 1998 the GM giant Monsanto launched an aggressive advertising campaign
to persuade reluctant Europeans they should accept GM foods: "As we stand
on the edge of a new millennium, we dream of a tomorrow without hunger…
Worrying about starving future generations won't feed them. Food
biotechnology will."
Such claims drew a critical response not just from many development
organizations with decades of on the ground experience of helping the poor
and hungry in the developing world, but even from the head of GM firm
Syngenta UK (then Novartis Seeds UK), Steve Smith. Smith told a public
meeting, "If anyone tells you that GM is going to feed the world, tell them that
it is not…To feed the world takes political and financial will.
Delegates from 20 African Countries to the Food and Agriculture
Organisation of the UN also responded sharply to Monsanto’s PR campaign,
issuing a joint public statement in which they declared: “We strongly object
that the image of the poor and hungry from our countries is being used by
giant multinational corporations to push a technology that is neither safe,
environmentally friendly nor economically beneficial to us."
But a decade later, in the face of massive food price inflation affecting some
of the poorest countries in the world, claims that GM crops are the silver
bullet that can deliver cheap and abundant food for all are once again being
made. The evidence to support such claims, however, is scant to non-existent,
as noted by the recently concluded International Assessment of Agricultural
Knowledge Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD), a process
involving 400 scientific experts initiated by the World Bank with the cosponsorship of the United Nations.
The IAASTD process involved a thorough sifting of the evidence about
agriculture and food production, and took four years to complete. Its 2500page report, based on peer reviewed publications, concluded that the yield
gains in GM crops "were highly variable" and in some cases, "yields
declined". The report also noted, "Assessment of the technology lags behind
its development, information is anecdotal and contradictory, and uncertainty
about possible benefits and damage is unavoidable." Asked at a press
conference whether GM crops were the simple answer to hunger and poverty,
IAASTD Director Professor Bob Watson (former director of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and as of 2008, chief scientist at
Defra) replied, "I would argue, no ". The UK Government approved the
IAASTD report on 9 June 2008.
The report not only brought into question GM's claims to be the solution to
global poverty and hunger but also to be a solution to climate change. In fact,
GM crops are seen by many as reinforcing an outdated model of agriculture,
unsuited for dealing with the conditions that climate change and expensive
scarce oil bring for global food security. Many also see GM crops as antiinnovation, because they involve patents which restrict the sharing of
knowledge and technology.
Large sections of the IAASTD report favoured truly innovative approaches to
improving agriculture and increasing food production. These involve
techniques suited to small farmers that minimize the use of increasingly
expensive fossil fuel-derived inputs like fertilisers and pesticides. These
approaches to cultivation and pest control recognise the value, particularly to
the poor and hungry, of low-cost practices using locally available materials
and technologies in an environmentally sensitive manner. They include
integrated pest management (IPM) and agroecological, or even fully
organic, methods.
These innovative farming methods have met with remarkable success, both in
the developing and developed world. The IAASTD report notes that they can
deliver effective crop protection and pesticide reduction and yield advantages.
The yield advantages of IPM have been particularly strong in the developing
world, increasing productivity for poor farmers while enhancing
sustainability. This, the report notes, has significant policy implications for
food security. The IAASTD report also notes that the community-wide
economic, social, health and environmental benefits of these approaches have
been widely documented.
After the publication of one study looking at a large number of projects in the
developing world, New Scientist commented, "Low-tech 'sustainable
agriculture', shunning chemicals in favour of natural pest control and fertiliser,
is pushing up crop yields on poor farms across the world, often by 70 per cent
or more... The findings will make sobering reading for people convinced that
only genetically modified crops can feed the planet's hungry in the 21st
century... A new science-based revolution is gaining strength built on real
research into what works best on the small farms where a billion or more of
the world's hungry live and work... It is time for the major agricultural
research centres and their funding agencies to join the revolution."
Here are some examples of the remarkable gains in productivity that have
been achieved:
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Some 45,000 farmers in Guatemala and Honduras used regenerative
technologies to triple maize yields to some 2-2.5 tons/ha and diversify
their upland farms. This has led to local economic growth that has in
turn encouraged re-migration back from the cities;
More than 300,000 farmers in southern and western India farming in
dryland conditions, and now using a range of water and soil
management technologies, tripled sorghum and millet yields to some
2-2.5 tons/hectare;
Some 200,000 farmers across Kenya, participating in government and
non-government soil and water conservation and sustainable
agriculture programmes, more than doubled their maize yields to
about 2.5 to 3.3 t/ha and substantially improved vegetable production
through the dry seasons;
100,000 small coffee farmers in Mexico adopted fully organic
production methods, and yet increased yields by half;
a million wetland rice farmers in Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia,
Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam shifted to
sustainable agriculture, where group-based farmer-field schools have
enabled farmers to learn alternatives to pesticides, and increased their
yields by about 10%.
The lot of small farmers in the developing world can also be greatly improved
by other practical measures – for example, through facilitating access to
affordable finance (microcredit, grants) or through increasing investment in
rural infrastructure, such as road, transport, and storage facilities. In contrast,
when it comes to helping the developing world, GM technology is failing to
deliver. As Defra chief scientist Bob Watson has unambiguously stated, "The
absence of GM crops is not the driver of hunger today."