INSIGHTS FROM THE WATER AND FOOD AWARD

SNAPSHOTS: FOUR CHALLENGES, SEVEN APPROACHES

OUR CHILDREN POORLY FED

OUR LOSS OF

VARIETIES

OUR FOOD DESERTS

OUR UNSUSTAINABLE

FOOD SYSTEM

Grow local Eat Local

SEANET helps schools develop school gardens that feed students and stimulate community gardens that feed locals

CATCH, KEEP, USE RAINWATER

Katosi womens development trust  train women masons in the community in the skills rainwater harvesting and  building water tanks. 

Community and kindness

In Todmorden they grow food everywhere and encourage people to take what they need. They show kindness works, and it is spreading to 33 other towns.

Let nature do its work

In Growing Power’s aquaponics plants clean the water that is fed to fish by gravity. The fish put nutrients into the water which is pumped to the plants

Intimate knowledge of where you live: Indigenuity

CHRP in Maharashtra State: Community members create a detailed map of the village to identify water catchment areas. Then they ladscape.

Influence government using what works

The municipality of Port Elizabeth is willing to pay for watershed services and is in negotiation

Bring Science close to people

MSSRF set up Village 17 village knowledge centres to bridge the rural-urban knowledge divide