"... a hundred ideas in a head." With this slogan promoted Zulma Careca from Bolivia for the method "of farmer to farmer" in an event organized by Bread for the world and its Latin American partners at the World Social Forum. The goal is to foster organic farming and promotion of biological diversity. What lies behind the method of farmer to farmer "?
In the method, it is important that the farmers share among themselves their experiences and their knowledge and learn from each other at eye level. "Our main task is to convince the farmers believe that conventional farming is harmful and contaminated the soil. We share our experiences and successes with the other hand, the environmental and sustainable management of the land, "said Zulma Careca. We go out in public, at fairs and form multipliers. Our own experience is often the most convincing. And they can tell of successes:
- formerly contaminated land slowly bring better returns;
- their yields are generally increased;
- by the diversity of growing families can live again by their own revenues and also produce a small surplus for the local market;
- the community in the villages and the confidence of farmers has grown.
reported similar successes representatives from Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala, Cuba, Mexico, Panama and Peru
That Zulma Careca and all the others are on the right track, Angelika Hilbeck confirmed by the Institute of Integrative Biology in Zurich on afternoon at the event "Small farmers, indigenous and sustainable agriculture as a way of food sovereignty in times of global food crisis. " There they presented the results of the World Agriculture Report, written at the UN level of 400 independent scientists. This report confirms that food sovereignty can be secured primarily by a strengthening of small farmers and promoting organic farming methods and the resulting biodiversity in agriculture.
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