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Family Vegetable Garden Manual
Resumen
The 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa has affected our countries not only from a sanitary but
also from a socio-economic point of view. Increment on food prices, food scarcity and hunger
are some of the unwelcomed consequences of the Ebola pandemic. Families and indeed entire
communities are facing now those challenges with hope and creativity. We would like to
present one more initiative which we call the "Family Vegetable Garden" Programme.
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The 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa has affected our countries not only from a sanitary but
also from a socio-economic point of view. Increment on food prices, food scarcity and hunger
are some of the unwelcomed consequences of the Ebola pandemic. Families and indeed entire
communities are facing now those challenges with hope and creativity. We would like to
present one more initiative which we call the "Family Vegetable Garden" Programme.
This programme was created in Argentina by INTA (National Institute of Agricultural
Technology) and implemented in several countries in order to improve food production and for
the feeding of hundreds of thousands of families, especially in countries which were facing
natural disasters and calamities.
The main aim of this programme is therefore to improve food security, increasing availability,
accessibility and production of food with an agro-ecological approach. It fosters the
participation and organization of our communities to that aim so that they become
protagonists in a gradual process of social and economic growth.
Specific objectives of this programme are:
• To better and diversify the feeding of families, schools and community organizations.
• To increase food production and the income of the beneficiaries of the programme.
• To promote the participation of the community in food production.
• To spread appropriate technologies to produce vegetables and crops.
• To promote alternative activities for food production integrated in a market view where the
person and the families are at the centre.
This initiative is highly relevant for our countries because it fosters the local production of food
utilizing appropriate technologies which care for the environment and securing at the same
time access to appropriate nutritious feeding for all those who are suffering the socio
economic consequences of the Ebola outbreak.
In this booklet you will find how to improve your family feeding, what to do in order to start
your garden cultivation of crops, which resources are needed, how to improve the fertility of
the soil, how to plan the sowing, how to produce seeds and seedlings and how to care for the
items and products of the soil.
Our gratitude to all those who authorized the use of these materials, those who worked in the
translation and designing of the booklet. A big thanks to all those who believe in this
programme and have contributed to implement it in our countries!
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Fecha
2015
Editorial
Ediciones INTA
Serie
Colección Recursos
ISBN
978-987-521-595-5
Tipo de documento
libro
Proyectos
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Palabras Claves
Derechos de acceso
Abierto
