Learn Grow Lessons From The Solomon Islands Launch 2010
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A description of the Learn Grow Project and its key concepts and lessons learned from its recent launch in the country of Solomon Islands.
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- 1. Lessons from the Solomon Islands Project Launch August 13-20, 2010
- 7. Wrong plant Wrong place Wrong methods Wrong food
- 9. Cabbage: Wrong Plant - Wrong Place Many plants have 10 to 100 times the amount of iron when compared to cabbage. But how would you know? The iron content of just some of the leafy green vegetables found in tropical regions of the world.
- 10. 4 times Protein 8 times Vitamin A 20 times Vitamin C 8 times Iron 4 times Zinc Cabbage Momienh OR And it suits the tropics!
- 12. Vitamin C content of various tree fruits Note on chart to right that the only citrus fruit named (Oranges) has the least amount of Vitamin C.
- 16. Buz Green, an agri-business consultant, and a member of the Rotary Club of Devonport North of District 9830, Tasmania, Australia heads the Rotary Committee for the Learn/Grow project. Rotary Teams: Are Key to Project Implementation!
- 20. Official Launch of Solomon Islands Project August 17, 2010
- 36. The Learn Grow Team : Volunteers are being sought to join the Learn Grow team. Do you have a skill in: writing, communication, IT, project management, program leaders, marketing, sales, promotion, graphic design, agronomy, science or whatever, there is an opportunity for you in this project.
- 37. Rotary can make a difference! www.learngrow.org
Editor's Notes
- This an actual aid poster from Africa that highlights a key problem of western food aid Wrong plant – a plant better adapted to the location would be appropriate Wrong place – cabbage is a temperate plant not well suited to be grown in the tropics. Wrong methods – Rows are not necessary unless machines are being used and it is more sustainable to grow plants in mixed communities than in a mono-culture. Wrong food – cabbage has very low food value and is not appropriate for malnourished communities – explained in following slides.
- There are 67 plants with 10 times the amount of iron in cabbage, ....and 8 plants with 100 times the amount, out of 500 potential leafy green tropical food crops.
- Monienh is a common tropical weed. Western agricultural advisers usually do not have knowledge of its nutritional value and regularly recommend this weed be removed to grow western food crops such as cabbage. This highlights the need to re-think food production for starving communities. It is necessary to turn modern agricultural training around and in this case pull out the crop and eat the weeds!
- Ask anyone what to eat if you want to get vitamin C and most will say “Oranges”. Oranges and other citris plants do have reasonable levels of vitamin C but other food plants have much higher levels. For people deficient in any vitamin or mineral it is best to identify and grow the best available plant with the richest source of the missing nutrient. For tropical countries guava has three time the amount of Vitamin C as citrus and is much better suited to the tropical environment.