Imagine transforming barren and empty landscapes into abundant food forests, layered with mangoes, legumes, garlic, herbs and corn.

SwaYYam in South India is doing just this by using agroforestry and alley cropping to revitalise soils, produce an abundance of crops and educate local farmers.

Agroforestry and alley cropping allow multiple crops to be stacked in one space, with tree crops providing shelter for low-lying plants and holding water in the soil with their roots. Fast growing biomass plants are used as groundcover and then as a mulch to feed the soil. Nitrogen-fixers make nitrogen available in the soil for other plants and a range of crops are grown for year-round food.

Swales and ploughing on the contour work with the land's orientation to maximise water capture. Deep irrigation and pitcher irrigation take water deep to the roots of trees, especially young sapling plantings.

SwaYYAm and their educational centre, Open Shell Farm, enables local farmers to learn regenerative farming methods, helping them create their own sustainable incomes through healthy soils and bountiful harvests.

SwaYYAm is a recipient of the 2020 Permaculture Magazine Prize: https://www.permaculture.co.uk..../articles/2020-perma

Malvikaa from SwaYYam shares the story of the project and some of their techniques in PM108: https://www.permaculture.co.uk/issue/summer-2021

⁣Agroforestry - How it Works

Sustainable Land Management: Integrated Soil Fertility ManagementOther: Climate Change Adaptation.

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A Maasai farmer from Kenya, Selina founded the Nashipa Maasai Project, which has rescued more than 250 girls from early marriages by offering them an education and opportunity to learn about organic farming.

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Agro processing in Nigeria involves adding value to Nigeria agricultural produce. Value-added agriculture generates several billions in economic impact of a country. In fact, adding value to agricultural products beyond the farm gate usually has several times the economic impact of the agricultural production alone.
Agricultural producers receive a much smaller portion of the consumer’s naira than do food processors, especially processors who produce brand name items. Capturing those additional naira by adding value to farm or ranch products is a goal of many producers.
Agro processing in Nigeria today can act as a catalyst towards starting or commencing your own value added business. Visit www.exportbusiness.com for more information

This is a step by step instructional video on how to make a Micro Home/Kitchen garden. It is one in a series of videos produced under the 1 Million Home/Kitchen Garden Initiative by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock Fisheries and Cooperatives in Kenya. The initiative is part of Government of Kenya's response to the global outbreak of the COVID-19 Corona Virus.

This video, from 1986, demonstrates hand-powered percussion water well drilling. Developed in China in 1100 B.C., it was used until the late 1800's, when larger, motorized versions became prevalent.More information, including our drilling manuals, can be found at: http://www.wellspringafrica.org©1986-2016 Wellspring Africa and Cliff MissenThis video is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.This means you may copy the video and share it widely. If you can, please let us know when you do. It makes us happy.You may re-use the materials on this CD-ROM for your own purposes, as long as you give Wellspring Africa credit and freely share the resulting works.

Many hand dug wells dry up at the end of the dry season, because more water is taken out than is coming in by the natural recharge. Reasons of limited groundwater recharge are heavy rainfall in short time, (climate change) compact topsoil layers, erosion because of loss of vegetation, etc. Options to increase the recharge of ground water are above or underground dams, the planting of trees and plants such as vetivar grass, making contour canals etc. An other option is the so called “Tube recharge”. This low-cost option combines a manually drilled hole with a drainage tube, a filter and a small pond. Rainwater, that otherwise would run off to rivers or evaporate, thus penetrates into the ground and reaches the first aquifer.
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