Mali's government is lending a hand to the more than 70 percent of its people who depend on agriculture for a living. An agriculture project is helping diversify and improve crops, as a means of improving farmers lives. For more information, please visit: World Bank in Africa go.worldbank.org World Bank in Mali go.worldbank.org To learn more about the food crisis, visit www.worldbank.org
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MONDAY 23 APRIL: Released on the eve of the World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty in Washington DC, April 23-26, 2012, two new films reveal widespread violations of people's rights and environmental destruction from land grabbing in Africa. [1] The films, released by La Via Campesina and Friends of the Earth International, are first-hand accounts of how privatisation of land, and corporate-friendly policies promoted by the World Bank lead to violent displacements, hunger and facilitate the global takeover of community land by private interests. In Mali, Libyan multinational corporation MALIBYA has been awarded 100000 hectares of prime agricultural land to grow export crops and livestock. The 25 Billion dollar project includes building one of the largest irrigation canals in Africa allowing Mali's precious water supply to be used by MALIBYA. The project is intended to develop agricultural industry through foreign direct investment -- a strategy aggressively promoted by the World Bank. In reality it has already violently displaced hundreds of families and demolished entire villages. Farmers are deprived of their livelihood and the capacity of the local people to feed themselves is hampered. In Uganda, the World Bank has provided millions in funding and technical support to a large scale expansion of palm oil at the expense of local food crops and forest. Communities are losing access to land for farming, firewood, forest products and water supplies. Despite promises of ...
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The Graphs Farming By Mali Brothers (Shri Ram Agro Farm) in The Kasabe Wangi Kadegaon Taluka Sangli Dist. Different types of variety are developed By Mali Brothers using their huge experience in Graphs farming.
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Aminata Sidibé represents the Federation of Business and Professional Women Bamako, and is also the Secretary of the Youth Action Association for Women's Development. "We work on awareness campaigns for women in our community on fundamental issues such as development, education, health, income-generating action, citizenship education and vocational training," she says. Since farming is one the most important sources of income for rural women in Mali, Sidibé also focuses on activities to improve their access to micro-finance and income-generating activities. By attending CSW, Sidibé hopes to learn more about others' efforts to improve women's civil rights elsewhere. She is attending the Commission as an Yvonne Hebert scholar, a scholarship programme facilitated by UN Women.
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Aminata Sidibé represents the Federation of Business and Professional Women Bamako, and is also the Secretary of the Youth Action Association for Women's Development. "We work on awareness campaigns for women in our community on fundamental issues such as development, education, health, income-generating action, citizenship education and vocational training," she says. Since farming is one the most important sources of income for rural women in Mali, Sidibé also focuses on activities to improve their access to micro-finance and income-generating activities. By attending CSW, Sidibé hopes to learn more about others' efforts to improve women's civil rights elsewhere. She is attending the Commission as an Yvonne Hebert scholar, a scholarship programme facilitated by UN Women.
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ONE allies Africare, Oxfam, and World Wildlife Foundation brought three farmers from Mali, Vietnam and India to Washington, DC to speak at the House of Representatives and at the International Trade Center about a style of rice farming that is little-known but rapidly spreading.
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REPORT: With the actual textile crisis, Malian farmers recently decided to grow organic cotton. (Report: FX. Freland)
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Tidiane Diarra, a young farmer from Mali, describes how the rainfall patterns have changed over the last years and how the village have had the opportunity to receive a weather station, which is helping the farmers of the area to adapt to changes. They can thus better monitor and predict the rainfalls. Tidiane also talks about the importance of capacity building and training for a farmer these days. Farmers need to receive proper support so that they can adapt to the climate changes, he explains, and be introduced to different seed varieties, selected according to the forecasted rainfall.
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Mahamane Diallo is a cattle farmer from the village Bouwéré in Mali. In the video he talks about how the villagers have had to change the way they feed the cattle because of the reduced space to graze due to the scarcity of water. Instead of feeding of grass the cattle is now allowed to feed on their crop fields after the harvest as well as being herded in other countries. As a way to cope with the loss in cattle, the villagers have started using the waterholes as fishponds to create additional income.
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Bougouna Sogoba, the Director of AMEDD (Association Malienne d'Eveil au Développemeny Durable), describes in the video how the NGO is working to connect the research done on food security with the farmers, to disseminate the use of adapted seed varieties as an adaptation measure to the effects of climate change, and in particular to changed rainfall patterns, which may otherwise lead to famine.
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Amadou Fane is both a farmer and a blacksmith from the village of Bouwéré in Mali. He describes how he built a seeder to use micro-dosing technique on his farm and how this has helped to optimize the use of fertilizers as well as increase his yields. The seeder and the new techniques in farming were needed since the climate has changed along with less fertile soil, space and yields. The villagers have now adapted to the changes by including new ways of farming.
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Ashok mali is not a regular farmer, he is professional doctor from sangli district. ashok mali started farming in 2008. farming should not be left to the people not interested in it, it is specialized job. He proved it with bumper harvest of grapes. A world Record In Grape Production with help of organic farming.
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To learn more and take action, go to: www.oxfamamerica.org
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Points from Wayne Pacelle (President and CEO of The Humane Society) on factory farming (WARNING: 7:09-7:26 and 10:08-10:28 includes disturbing factory farm footage), and Lee Camp (political comedian) on hydraulic fracturing (aka, 'fracking') are discussed by Mariana Tosca (actor and social activist), Armaiti May (veterinarian and activist), Adam Sakellarides (animator - Pictures In A row), and guest host Michael Shure (host - TwenTYTwelve). The group also discusses the encouragment letter a 7-year-old boy sent to San Francisco 49ers player Kyle Williams who received hatemail that included death threats after he lost a critical fumble in the NFC Championship loss to the New York Giants who are headed to the Super Bowl to face the New England Patriots. Watch More Points: www.youtube.com Wayne Pacelle's blog: hsus.typepad.com Lee Camp's site: leecamp.net Lee on Twitter: twitter.com More about factory farming: www.farmsanctuary.org www.mercyforanimals.org (source for animal abuse footage shown in this episode) My Water's On Fire Tonight (Fracking Song): www.youtube.com Mariana Tosca homepage: www.mtosca.com Armaiti May homepage www.veganvet.net Adam Sakellarides www.adamsakellarides.com More Adam: picrow.com Michael Shure's TwenTYTwelve: www.youtube.com Michael on TWitter: twitter.com
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In this video employee Arouna Bayoko describes the work of AMEDD, an NGO that works with groups of local farmers to help them adapt to climate change through the dissemination of adapted seed varieties and reforestation together with regulating firewood use.
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Mitch McCaskell discuss the need for missionary investment in Mali.
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MONDAY 23 APRIL: Released on the eve of the World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty in Washington DC, April 23-26, 2012, two new films reveal widespread violations of people's rights and environmental destruction from land grabbing in Africa. [1] The films, released by La Via Campesina and Friends of the Earth International, are first-hand accounts of how privatisation of land, and corporate-friendly policies promoted by the World Bank lead to violent displacements, hunger and facilitate the global takeover of community land by private interests. In Mali, Libyan multinational corporation MALIBYA has been awarded 100000 hectares of prime agricultural land to grow export crops and livestock. The 25 Billion dollar project includes building one of the largest irrigation canals in Africa allowing Mali's precious water supply to be used by MALIBYA. The project is intended to develop agricultural industry through foreign direct investment -- a strategy aggressively promoted by the World Bank. In reality it has already violently displaced hundreds of families and demolished entire villages. Farmers are deprived of their livelihood and the capacity of the local people to feed themselves is hampered. In Uganda, the World Bank has provided millions in funding and technical support to a large scale expansion of palm oil at the expense of local food crops and forest. Communities are losing access to land for farming, firewood, forest products and water supplies. Despite promises of ...
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