生物多様性

During a school visit, we found that urban children don't know that rice came from paddy, or how to differentiate banana tree and cotton tree. Rural children also cannot differentiate herbs and spices. This shows their low knowledge about the food they consume and the process behind. No transfer of knowledge between parents and children about local food culture.

With the global food invasion, local food is left behind. Thus local food culture is threatened, as also local biodiversity. A striking example: picking wild plants as food is considered outlandish against buying food in market.

So we try to educate children to build the knowledge about local food, develop healthy diet, and lead them to take part in environment conservation.

Después de trabajar como antropóloga con comunidades indígenas en Colombia aprendí que la perdida de biodiversidad y de conocimiento entorno a su etnobotánica estaba amenazando la integridad y supervivencia de estas comunidades. Decidí estudiar permacultura, para aprender sobre formas orgánicas y ancestrales de siembra y comprendí la importancia de las semillas como herramienta para la subsistencia. Durante una conferencia, donde el gobierno colombiano discutía con los Awá su plan de supervivencia y escuchándolos hablar sobre la situación de sus tierras, semillas y sus problemas de nutrición pensé en el trabajo de la fundación seedsavers.org. Desde ese momento estamos trabajando con los Awá por hacer este proyecto realidad.

Utilisation de l'approche participative communautaire et d'intégration des bonnes pratiques culinaires endogènes dans la gastronomie béninoise, Africaine et mondiale.

In 2002 in northern Honduras, EcoLogic’s Regional Director visited demonstration plots using an alley-cropping method with Inga edulis trees designed by British researcher, Dr. Michael Hands, at the Centro Universitario Regional del Litoral Atlántico (CURLA). Farmers in our nearby project site had voiced interest in alternative agriculture techniques and the director of EcoLogic’s local partner at the time, the Pico Bonito National Park Foundation (FUPNAPIB), passionately promoted the multitude of community benefits related to Inga edulis trees. Our regional director determined that the technique would strengthen and compliment the forest conservation and community development work already being implemented in this project site.

In 2002 I was doing my research project for my thesis. I studied Food and Nutrition Technology and I wanted something different to research other than industrial foods. After reading so many journals I found an old book about plants in Indonesia wrote by a Dutch. In that book I was amazed by diversity of plants that local people's use to feed themselves. Each community in each island have their own way to process some plants into food. I decided to research about mangrove based on Papuan traditional knowledge processing mangrove seeds for their staple food. Although I got some rejection from my lecturer and bad mark for that research, my passion had grown to search more about other plants and dig out their potential to combat malnutrition.

I was part of Poject under Dr. Afzal Ahmad to study Impact of EM on various crops,vegetables and fruits Which was monitered by INFRC and CDS in Mat Block,Mathura and results were stupendous.I found that people are paying too much for unhealthy food and condition of soil,food quality and farmers are pathetic and there is very little scope.I try to bring a changeIf we Increase awareness of the viability of intensive EM method agricultural alternatives to facilitate a shift toward sustainability which may supplant the need for damaging chemicals in food cultivation, could improve nutrients to the human diet and increase agricultural productivity, then it will pay social and financi

Each year for my birthday, or Christmas, my mother would buy me a puzzle. The ones with a thousand pieces were, and still are, my favorites. The only puzzles that i enjoyed doing were of Norman Rockwell paintings. He was, and still is, my favorite artist. I would sit for hour upon hour studying the nuances of color and light, wondering how anyone could paint like that, all while putting the pieces where they go. This youthful penchant for puzzles has influenced the way I perceive the world and how it is I came to my "Aha" moment. A moment, which for me is still happening. A moment that is being built upon the momentum of a lot of hard work and years of wandering. In 2004 I went to study for a month with Paul Stamets as an internship, while working towards my degree in Biology (microbiology). I was touched by Paul's genuineness and sense of purpose.

was walking through downtown Tofino on a sunny summer day. Hundreds of people are wandering around town looking for something to do. Many are attracted to come here because of the pristine natural environment. Yet our grassroots environmental group does not have adequate funding to run our campaigns to the level we need to. What about if all these people had somewhere to go to learn about the threats to this beautiful place? What if they learned about the history of the successes of our organization, that this is a place on planet Earth where local residents have worked together with local First Nations and succeeded in stopping logging? No doubt we could convince many of them to support our work so Clayoquot Sound remains a place where people will want to visit.

I have been working as a Family Outreach Worker for Haida Child and Family Services. I work predominantly with young men who often have little desire to seek counselling and gain thier support to continue services by providing outdoor activities and education. Young men who I have taken surfing have found partime jobs to buy surfboards and boys that I have taken chanterelle picking now wait for the time each fall when mushrooms begin to flower so that they may pick and sell them to generate sustainable local food. I worked at Talung Slung Cultural Camp and watched the change in young 'at risk' youth who spent a week at a time in the wilderness 6 hours by boat from the nearest community. I weave cedar bark with the elders of Old Masset each week and have recieved their support for more outdoors programming for grandchildren to provide food and live off the land in a more traditional means. The smiling face of a young girl who had caught her first Nuu (Octopus) was my Aha moment.