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Applicant: Conrado Tognetti, Bariloche, Patagonia, Argentina
Title: Biointensive Agriculture for Sociointensive Food Safety of low income groups
In affiliation with: CEDHA (Center for Human and Environmental Rights), Director Sofia Bordenave, esq. and ARB (Association of Recyclers of Bariloche), Director Daniel Quintriqeo
Allocated Funds: $3,000.00 |
Funded Activities: Creation of a project utilizing biointensive
agricultural techniques (using greenhouses and low level inputs) to safely
feed the poor and generate income. A group of 30 children and adolescents
(former child laborers in San Carlos de Bariloche's waste site) will
participate in this initiative for sustainable self-reliance. The
goal will be providing basic food needs for their family groups,
generating income, and combine with other groups to further their own
productive and earnings-generating capacities. More about this project. |
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Applicant: Andy Witowski, Co-SINC & Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society (NSAS)
Title: Training in Greenhouse Grow Biointensive Agriculture
Allocated Funds: $500.00 |
Funded Activities: Training in Pennsylvania on the use of Biointensive Agriculture. Andy will put this training to use in Lincoln, utilizing biointensive agriculture techniques with the Lincoln Community Garden Project to provide a balanced diet for low-income people. He will also work with the Lincoln Children's Museum to set up a new area for "Grow Biointensive" vegetable production, extending the museum's outreach to include lower income, migratory, and refugee groups. |
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Applicant: Andy Witowski, Co-SINC (Community CROPS) and
Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society.
Title: GROW BIOINTENSIVEŽ Sustainable Mini-Farming
Workshop
Allocated Funds: $1,500.00 |
Funded Activities: GROW BIOINTENSIVEŽ
Sustainable Mini-Farming Workshop Training for Andy Witowski, Kim
Matthews, Jose Alas, and John Andrews of the Lincoln Community Garden. The
project will empower the low-income and disenfranchised to increase the
health and sustainability of our soil and
community. |
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Applicant: John
Andrews Title: Video on "Greenhouse Biointensive Agriculture" |
Funded
Activities: Transportation and
incidental expenses for the production of a video on Greenhouse
Biointensive Agriculture. Video will be used at the Sustainable Soil
Fertility International headquarters in |