Presentation from Father Godfrey Nzamujo of Songhai (Benin) describing the initiatives of the centre related to Agroecology – from the restoration of degraded agricultural land to the production and marketing of the harvest . The presentation was prepared and delivered in occasion of the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition, held at FAO in Rome on 18-19 September 2014.
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Songhai regenerative agriculture: super soils deploying effective and indigenous micro organisms
1. SONGHAI REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
WITH
SUPER SOILS
DEPLOYING
EFFECTIVE
AND
INDIGENOUS MICRO ORGANISMS
By: REV. FATHER GODFREY NZAMUJO O.P.
AGROECOLOGY INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
FAO HQ, 18-19 September 2014
2. Are we not navigating with the
wrong map?
•It is getting clearer that the solutions to our
problems can no longer be found in the present day
logic.
•We have hit a point in history that calls for
changes that are deeper than any “revolution” we
have heard about.
• We need a radical shift not just in our vision of the
world or our mentality and how we think, but in
every sphere of our lives -
3. • Fortunately, modern sciences among other sources, including the
neurosciences are providing us with fundamentally different and
refreshing frameworks on our human dynamics and that of our planet
• We believe that from seeing our planet from this world view, we will be in
a better position to design and re-engineer our way out of these crises.
• Some of the principles at play in this new paradigm are:
• Synergy,
• Symbiosis
• Complementarity, Collaboration and
• Suplementarity
•
4. • The Songhai initiative is basically the harnessing
of these principles to invent and develop new
and appropriate technological and
developmental trajectories. It is an integrated
development system that organically creates
dynamic linkages and synergy between
Agriculture, Industry and services - and also
within each of these sub-systems.
•
• The basis of Sustainability is:
• PRODUCING MORE WITH LESS
6. Integrated Production System
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7.
8. CONVENTIONAL POULTRY PRODUCTION CHAIN
Infrastructures
Day Old Chicks
Labor
Feed
Water
Energy
Water
Energy
Accessories
Water
Labor
Equipment
Infrastructure
Waste Water
By-products
Broilers
Quails
Turkeys
Manure
Sewage
Dead animals
Water
Packaging
Equipment
Labor
Ingredients
Blood
Feather
Bones
Fat
Waste Water
Infrastructure
Refrigeration
Money
STORAGE LEVEL
LOSSES
MARKET
LEVEL
LOSSES
Ducks
CONSUMER
LEVEL
LOSSES
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9. THE ALTERNATIVE THAT
SONGHAI PROPOSES
aquaculture
AGRICULTURE
Bio-gas
PRODUCT
STORAGE
MEAT
SHOP
Smoked
Chicken
ribs
Hams
Sausages
POULTRY CHAIN
INDUSTRY
Brewery
Wastes
by-products of
Food processing
P
R
ODUCTION
- Cake (soya, peanuts,
palm kernel, cotton,
coco, sunflowers…)
- Cassava peelings
FISH
Live
Poultry
Bio-gas
AGRICULTURE
Bio-gas
BIO-GAS
AQUACULTURE
ANIMAL PRODUCTION
ANIMAL
NUTRITION
AGRICULTURE
Meat PROCESSING
ANIMAL
NUTRITION
P
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S
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MAR
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Maize, Rice,
Sorghum, Soya,
Moringa, etc
Dressed
Poultry
Water
Labor
Equipment
Infrastructure
Energy
Labor
Equipment
Infrastructure
Energy
Packaging
Infrastructure
(refrigeration)
Energy
Packaging
Infrastructure
(refrigeration)
Bones
Waste Water
AB
ATT
OI
R
Fertilization of
waste water Water
feather Compost
Blood meal
Blood
Maggots
intestine
Fertilization
Pond
Fertilization
Manure
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11. USE OF WATER HYANCINTH FOR WATER PURIFICATION AND ENERGY GENERATION