Comments on: Extreme Hunger: Small Farmers to the Rescue? http://mdg.devex.com/mdg1-topic2-eradicate-extreme-poverty-and-hunger/ Making the Millennium Development Goals Happen Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:09:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Making the Millennium Development Goals HAPPEN | NEW IPC-IG Press Room http://mdg.devex.com/mdg1-topic2-eradicate-extreme-poverty-and-hunger/comment-page-1/#comment-6098 Making the Millennium Development Goals HAPPEN | NEW IPC-IG Press Room Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:57:17 +0000 http://wp.fliptopbox.com/?p=21#comment-6098 [...] ‘To eradicate extreme poverty and hunger we must think of alternative approaches and solutions based on local demand, developed in a participatory manner…’ Nazmul Chowdhury, Practical Action [...]

]]> By: Nazmul Chowdhury http://mdg.devex.com/mdg1-topic2-eradicate-extreme-poverty-and-hunger/comment-page-1/#comment-5939 Nazmul Chowdhury Wed, 03 Nov 2010 04:57:31 +0000 http://wp.fliptopbox.com/?p=21#comment-5939 Family nutrition, who has no capability to buy fish from market
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]]> By: Nazmul Chowdhury http://mdg.devex.com/mdg1-topic2-eradicate-extreme-poverty-and-hunger/comment-page-1/#comment-5938 Nazmul Chowdhury Wed, 03 Nov 2010 04:54:00 +0000 http://wp.fliptopbox.com/?p=21#comment-5938 Nutritional access for resource poor and additional income by using low cost technology.
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]]> By: Nazmul Chowdhury http://mdg.devex.com/mdg1-topic2-eradicate-extreme-poverty-and-hunger/comment-page-1/#comment-5937 Nazmul Chowdhury Wed, 03 Nov 2010 04:46:23 +0000 http://wp.fliptopbox.com/?p=21#comment-5937 Floating gardens, Farming on flood.
An innovative solution for resource poor in NW Bangladesh and future hope to cope with the changing climate.
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]]> By: Nazmul Chowdhury http://mdg.devex.com/mdg1-topic2-eradicate-extreme-poverty-and-hunger/comment-page-1/#comment-5936 Nazmul Chowdhury Wed, 03 Nov 2010 04:37:39 +0000 http://wp.fliptopbox.com/?p=21#comment-5936 To eradicate extreme poverty and hunger we must think alternative approaches and solutions based on local demand, develop on a participatory manner. With strong believe Technology/solutions within the community, by the community and for the community same as the democratic principal of the great president Abraham Lincoln. To do this we just need to consider the followings so far;

1. Create fuller access for the resource poor communities to the common property natural resources, supported by ear marked policy
2. Low cost Innovations and appropriate technology (based on Schumacher’s philosophy Small is beautiful” which is affordable and accessible by the large segment of the resource poor in the world.
3. Promotion of community based service system for self-employment and for sustainability.
4. Capacity and skills for the school dropout adolescent boy and girls to cope with the situations, who lead the coming decades and eras.
5. Undertake comprehensive approach to address basic needs of the HHs and community for growth and development.

The Photograph is only the example out of many innovative solutions i.e. sand bar cropping, floating garden, cage fishery, rang of small enterprise options, rural resettlement and disaster risk reduction model, development of basic services and facilities run by Practical Action in NW Bangladesh.

Photo with example of benefit by the use of barren lands for the river eroded landless households in NW Bangladesh.

1327 farmers have produced around 33,000 Mt of pumpkins worth around 5million pound based on urban market value of the product from unfertile river basin during the dry season in 4 years period 2005-2008 in NW Bangladesh. Now it is scaling up another 4 districts with the financial assistance of DfID and GoB shiree project.
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]]> By: Joseph http://mdg.devex.com/mdg1-topic2-eradicate-extreme-poverty-and-hunger/comment-page-1/#comment-5384 Joseph Thu, 21 Oct 2010 21:51:50 +0000 http://wp.fliptopbox.com/?p=21#comment-5384 Lets show the way.Yes,we can eradicate poverty.This can happen through doing the small things that bring positive transformation in life among the poor.We need to reach the most marginalized communities and identify those income generating activities that we can boost them on.Through training and capacity building,i have seen CHANGE.And i am convinced that if we work hard with love for each other,then Sustainable Development will be achieved.Socio-economic development should be done Bottom-up.Lets all go to the grass-roots and start work.Water,Education,Agriculture are Key!We welcome those who share common goal with us to join us in Kenya and lets do community development in order to eradicate poverty.Remember that if we empower women,we will win.

Joseph.
Founder/Executive Director
THE MUINDE KAVIRI FOUNDATION
http://www.muindekavirifoundation.org
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]]> By: Godfrey Eneas http://mdg.devex.com/mdg1-topic2-eradicate-extreme-poverty-and-hunger/comment-page-1/#comment-3862 Godfrey Eneas Fri, 08 Oct 2010 02:13:08 +0000 http://wp.fliptopbox.com/?p=21#comment-3862 The Bahamas and the Caribbean are essentially small farmer localties. In recent years,small farmers have been adversely affected by national and global policies which have endangered small scale farming.
Some of these policies are related to Market Access resulting from commodities which are highly subsidized entering local markets and destabilizing these markets in most Caribbean states. This has t created competitiveness issues for small farmers.In far too many instances, small farmers leave the rural areas for urban centres because they are unable to compete with cheap, highly subsidized food commodities.

]]> By: kalibongo Robert http://mdg.devex.com/mdg1-topic2-eradicate-extreme-poverty-and-hunger/comment-page-1/#comment-1138 kalibongo Robert Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:43:23 +0000 http://wp.fliptopbox.com/?p=21#comment-1138 As journalists we are trying to sensitise the local community on the challenges of MDGs especially on areas of martenal health and HIV/AIDS but the major challenge is reaching the rural people.

]]> By: kalibongo Robert http://mdg.devex.com/mdg1-topic2-eradicate-extreme-poverty-and-hunger/comment-page-1/#comment-1137 kalibongo Robert Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:35:15 +0000 http://wp.fliptopbox.com/?p=21#comment-1137 As i earlier stated political corruption is the main challenge! farm inputs like ox-ploughs, seeds and tractors are given to pro-government supporters in the case of a country like uganda and this makes the minority rich become more richer ,the cost of the basic neccesities like sugar, soap cooking oil among others is incredibly not affordable by a common man ,the price of farm inputs is apallingly too low and farmers cannot reap enough from their produce coupled with inflation rates country like uganda may not realise the dream of MDGs .

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