Promote sustainable agriculture to end hunger for good — 3 inspiring solutions
According to the UN, 1 in 9 people in the world today are undernourished, while 1 third of all the food produced is thrown away.
What if we could end hunger for good thanks to sustainable agriculture?
For Impact Journalism Day, more than 50 newspapers from all over the world are publishing 60 stories of change! Among these, we drew up a list of 6 inspiring solutions responding to this issue. Discover a selection of these solutions to fight against hunger and find more sustainable agriculture like the initiatives of Yacouba Sawadogo, Provenance & Hello Tractor.
Yacouba Sawadogo — Burkina Faso
In the 1980’s, Yacouba Sawadogo decided to do all he could to stop the desert encroaching. He adapted and improved an ancestral cultivation technique, called le zaï. He had the idea to use the help of ants, which improve the quality of the soil, enabling water to infiltrate & be conserved. Despite the skepticism of the region’s inhabitants, he persisted and years later, a forest covering around 15 hectares is staving off the advancement of the desert. The inhabitants who had left came back to tend to their fields. Thanks to Yacouba, more than 3 millions hectares of dry Burkinabe land have become fertile again.
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Provenance — UK
Every day we buy products that impact our planet. Opaque supply chains are devastating environments & compromising the wellbeing of people, animals & communities. Provenance is a platform that uses blockchain technology to empower brands to take steps toward greater transparency by tracing the origins & histories of products, giving customers information to make positive choices about what to buy. Currently working with the Co-op Food group in the UK, Provenance has successfully tracked fish through supply chains in Indonesia.
Hello Tractor — Nigeria
Social enterprise improving food and income security by building a network of “Smart Tractor” owners, enabling small-scale farmers to request & pay for tractor services via SMS & mobile money, as and when they need specific services. Hello Tractor also coordinates low-cost financing to facilitate the purchase of a Smart Tractor. Since its launch in mid-2014, farmers who participated saw their yields increase by 200 percent using a machine that’s 40x faster than manual labor. WEF Circulars Award Finalist 2017.
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Favela Organica — Brazil
Favela Organica aims to brings changes to the culture of food consumption and waste, by demonstrating that when food is used in a complete way, people buy less and generate more meals with the same amount of products. The company offers workshops & lectures on the food cycle: from grocery planning to meal prepping & waste disposal, as well as insight into the nutritional value of food sources typically discarded as waste. Recipes include “colorful peels & stems rice”, “banana peel brownies” & “broccoli stem quiche”.The project has already traveled across several Brazilian states & to other countries, such as Italy, France & Uruguay.
