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Internationally acclaimed filmmaker films Avalon project in South Africa
Finding Common Ground - The Art of Healing the Earth is a series of socio-eco short films to be released later this year by the internationally acclaimed film maker John D. Liu and his team from the Environmental Education Media Project (EEMP). For the first episode, footage was shot in South Africa. In Cape Town, the film crew visited several partners of ‘Farming for the Future’, an organic urban farming project of the Avalon Foundation, which is a Dutch-based organisation that promotes organic farming and agri-environmental programmes. This video is an extract of the first episode, featuring the project partners and activities of ‘Farming for the Future’ in Cape Town. |
Avalon-project runner-up in competition The Best Idea of South-Africa
The Avalon-project Farming for the Future is second prize winner of the competition The Best Idea of South-Africa. This was a competition in The Netherlands in which contestants were challenged to present an innovative concept for commercial chances and concepts that result in more than just financial profit. The competition was organized by The Southern African Netherlands Chamber of Commerce (SANEC).
Farming for the Future consists of three components: First, breadwinners (mostly ‘caregivers’ of the Family Strenghtening Programme of SOS Children’s Village South-Africa) will be trained in organic urban farming so they will be able to feed their families better and healthier meals. Second, some of them can develop as semi-commercial urban farmers to supplement their income. And last, a selection of the urban farmers will receive a one-year education to learn how to be an urban farmer on a fully commercial basis. They will not only learn about food production, but also about marketing, finance and management.
Farming for the future is a six year project, which will lead to an estimated amount of 20 million improved meals and 630 jobs.
The Best Idea of South-Africa competition was won by Zizi Fernandes for the project Mama Taxi.
The Avalon-project Farming for the Future is second prize winner of the competition The Best Idea of South-Africa. This was a competition in The Netherlands in which contestants were challenged to present an innovative concept for commercial chances and concepts that result in more than just financial profit. The competition was organized by The Southern African Netherlands Chamber of Commerce (SANEC).
Farming for the Future consists of three components: First, breadwinners (mostly ‘caregivers’ of the Family Strenghtening Programme of SOS Children’s Village South-Africa) will be trained in organic urban farming so they will be able to feed their families better and healthier meals. Second, some of them can develop as semi-commercial urban farmers to supplement their income. And last, a selection of the urban farmers will receive a one-year education to learn how to be an urban farmer on a fully commercial basis. They will not only learn about food production, but also about marketing, finance and management.
Farming for the future is a six year project, which will lead to an estimated amount of 20 million improved meals and 630 jobs.
The Best Idea of South-Africa competition was won by Zizi Fernandes for the project Mama Taxi.