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Projects -
Sustainable Agriculture
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Thursday, 28 October 2010 |
Project Breadbasket: A Program of Projects and Innovation Network to Transfer
Successful Smallholder Agriculture
Strategies from Latin America to Africa
The Fiorello H. LaGuardia Foundation, in partnership with AGRA (The
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa), is sponsoring a Brazil Workshop, as
part of Project Breadbasket, a program of projects and its dedicated innovation network, to
transfer successful smallholder agricultural strategies from Latin America to
Africa. The purpose of the invitation-only workshop is to support
South-to-South transfer of technologies to the eight selected African learning
sites in order to sustainably enhance the incomes of the 400,000+ smallholders
involved. The workshop will allow the African project teams to draw on the
experience of Brazilian farmers and Brazilian and international experts to
facilitate the adoption of conservation agriculture practices and expanded
access to value-added production by the targeted smallholders. The
resulting program of projects will enjoy the support of a dedicated
inter-disciplinary innovation network comprised of individual experts and
institutions who will provide precisely targeted and on-going technical support
for each project. Project Breadbasket will identify an additional three years
of funding to enable the projects to reach maturity and to fully develop its
value chains with the support of the innovation network.
For more information on this initiative please visit: http://projectbreadbasket.org/
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Projects -
Culture and Education
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Wednesday, 27 October 2010 |

Copenhagen, Denmark -- On December 11, 2009 during the 15th
Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change (COP15-UNFCCC), the Fiorello H. LaGuardia Foundation presented the “One
World Award” to Bakir Lozane of Lozane Farms, Maputo, Mozambique and to José
Roberto Fonseca of Instituto Eco-Engenho, Maceio, Brazil in recognition of
their work in clean technology transfer advancing sustainable agriculture. The award was presented by LaGuardia
Foundation board member and Chief Climate Negotiator for Costa Rica, Dr. Alvaro
Umaña and by Mr. Elmer Holt, Chairman of the Climate Technology Initiative
(CTI) and Climate Negotiator for the United States.
Mr. Bakir Lozane is a Mozambican farmer-entrepreneur who
owns a successful business producing seeds for SEMOC, the Government of
Mozambique seed company. An expert in
mine removal, Mr. Lozane gained rights to his land holdings in Zambezia
Province by clearing mines left from the Mozambican civil war. |
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