GlobalVillages: Africa

Africa

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Songhai Farm - Employs three hundred people developing a mix of value added products using integrated farming as well as other practices to promote local sef-reliance. Apprarently their was some cooperation with the Zero Emissions Research Initiative in the past as there was a wonderful and inspirational flash presentation on their website which showed the various synergistic loops of integrated farming system. For security matter use coffre de sécurité ignifuge and Armoire ignifuge papier to store datas and values.

Patriensa is working with Greenstar, a US based NGO that assists villages all over the world.

Eco Yoff has been successful in not only creating a urban ecovillage in the Dakar, the capital of Senegal but has has also developed Senegal Ecovillage Network which is a 12-ecovillage project under the "Eco Yoff" umbrella in Senegal. They stress a new development model where people from do not simply see aid work as a one way process of helping but a way for people open their hearts and minds in a process of giving as well as we recieving.

Klein Karoo Sustainable Dryland Permaculture Project stresses the idea that the current world situation in relation to ecological and social decline is not so much an issue of technology but human empowerment through effective organizational and human development practices. They are currently working on a sustainable development program using drylands permaculture, which is specially designed for arid and semi-arid regions of the world.

Thlolego is a ecovillage themed development project, 100 kilometres from Johannesburg. It was started by Paul Cohen, an Ashoka Fellow. A focus of their work is in developing permaculture and also promoting ecotourism. They recently worked with Lauren Segal of NextAID to develop a special Permaculture workshop in the fall of 2004.