Avalon, a Dutch foundation for sustainable agriculture, is initiator of the Farming for the Future-project. Martien Lankester of Avalon is project leader.
For over twenty years Avalon has been working on the promotion of organic and multifunctional agriculture, agri-environment programmes, agro-biodiversity and sustainable rural development. Besides that, Avalon stimulates the urgently needed paradigm shift in thinking, practice and policy related to food and agriculture. Avalon also supports an extensive international network of sustainable agriculture and conservation organisations.
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For over twenty years Avalon has been working on the promotion of organic and multifunctional agriculture, agri-environment programmes, agro-biodiversity and sustainable rural development. Besides that, Avalon stimulates the urgently needed paradigm shift in thinking, practice and policy related to food and agriculture. Avalon also supports an extensive international network of sustainable agriculture and conservation organisations.
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Abalimi Bezekhaya is a local organisation that will play a very iportant role in the project, as it will provide local training on the ground, based on their well-tested scheme. Abalimi has over 20 years of experience in training the disadvantaged, the poor and the unemployed in producing organic vegetables.
Abalimi Bezekhaya attempts with its projects to alleviate poverty and create self-employment through microfarming initiatives. Their focus is on skills development through training and supporting people and organisations who wish to practice organic microfarming. They promote sustainable development while encouraging initiatives which renew, build and conserve social organisation, self responibility and the natural environment.
Abalimi Bezekhaya attempts with its projects to alleviate poverty and create self-employment through microfarming initiatives. Their focus is on skills development through training and supporting people and organisations who wish to practice organic microfarming. They promote sustainable development while encouraging initiatives which renew, build and conserve social organisation, self responibility and the natural environment.
SOS Children's Villages aims to help improve the situation of vulnerable children by supporting the availability of child care, education, and health care to children and their families, as well as providing quality alternative care for children who cannot live with their biological familiesSOS Children’s Villages South Africais implementing various Family Strengthening Programmes (FSP) throughout the country, in which it supports disadvantaged families by bolstering their capacity to protect and care for their children. Growing food can serve both food security and income generation. Although the interest is there, so far resources have been lacking to provide proper training and startup facilities to reach even a stage of subsistence farming. Avalon and SOS SA have decided to work together in this project to build exactly this capacity among caregivers of different FSP’s.
The COmON Foundation is the main funder of the project. The aim of the COmON Foundation is to help underprivileged people by improving their future prospects. The COmON Foundation helps areas where poverty is rife but potential is present by making simple, structural improvements that establish a basis for economic development and independent growth. The COmON Foundation wants to play a role in the development of people in poor countries by gradually creating the basic conditions for A) a healthy natural environment and B) education and a basic infrastructure in order to enable the next steps in development, such as the productivity of farming and cattle raising, forestry and vegetable growing and trade in agrarian products.
The Western Cape Department of Agriculture is co-funder of the project. It's mission is to unlock the full potential of agriculture to enhance the economic, ecological and social wealth of the Western Cape. It therefore provides a wide range of development, research and support services to the agricultural community in the Western Cape.