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Contents 1 Action Ideas 2 Why it matters 3 Global News 4 Village cinema 5 Resources 6 Random facts 7 Related 8 External Links

[edit] Action Ideas

Articles Community orchards 'Guerrilla Gardening' Permaculture Kitchen garden Seed saving, swapping and sharing Yardsharing	Wanted pages City farms Community-supported agriculture Allotments Community gardens Community vegetable gardens	other ideas Visit an organic farm - Information from the Soil Association (UK) Gardening match up service Organic gardening clubs Urban forest gardens Wwoof - see international links Community Farm Land Trusts - see UK links Keyhole gardens - see external links

[edit] Why it matters

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[edit] Global News

July 2009

• Worldwatch Institute launch two-year project to point the world toward innovations in agriculture, supported by a $1.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, July 8 ^[1] The project will focus specifically on sub-Saharan Africa. Among the many innovations and approaches that Worldwatch plans to examine are

• Adding nitrogen-fixing plants into crop rotations as a low-cost solution for enriching soils and breaking weed and pest cycles;
• Overcoming freshwater shortages with rain harvesting, efficient irrigation, micro dams, and cover cropping;
• Strengthening local breeding capacity, including the use of farmer-run seed banks and genetic markers of important crop traits;
• Tapping international carbon-credit markets to reward farmers for enriching their soils and planting carbon-sequestering tree crops;
• Involving women farmers in decision-making at all levels.

[edit] Village cinema

[edit] Resources

• SeedSaving1-0 (PDF file)

[edit] Random facts

• An estimated 800 million people are involved in urban farming worldwide. Source: Worldwatch Institute

[edit] Related

SCA Food Biodiversity Mess Micro Environment Subsistence System - Optimize growing conditions for your home food area. Seasonal UK Green New Year resolutions	Wikipedia Sustainable agriculture Community-supported agriculture City farms Raised bed gardening	Wikisphere Permawiki, started 17 October, 2005 Green gardens on greenlivingpedia

[edit] External Links

• Urban Agriculture in the Middle East and North Africa
• A Keyhole Garden for Households in Africa

• International WWOOF Association - World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms
• Permaculture Research Institute

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References

1. ↑ Worldwatch Institute, July 8, 2009