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La solidaridad elimina la oscuridad
an article by Natalia Rocha and Omar Salinas

Video: Un invento interesante con una botella de plástico)

Debido a que las personas cuentan con recursos económicos limitados, el tema del desarrollo sustentable se ha vuelto crucial para mejorar la calidad de vida de los mismos. El video “Un invento interesante con una botella de plástico” muestra cómo la población puede crear alternativas a las energías tradicionales a través de la solidaridad, un elemento clave para la construcción de la Cultura de la Paz.


La luz del desarrollo

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La reutilización de desechos que, comúnmente irían a parar a la basura, son el elemento esencial para iluminar cada una de las casas mostradas de Maligaya, un pequeño poblado en Filipinas que debido al tipo de construcción de sus casas, carecen de luz solar y de los recursos económicos suficientes para pagar el servicio de energía eléctrica a lo largo del día.

La mezcla de botellas de plástico, cloro y agua, instaladas en el techo de cada hogar facilitan que la luz solar entre a las casas como si se tratara de una bombilla eléctrica. Estas botellas solares, que surgieron de la idea de uno de los habitantes, ha beneficiado a 643 casas y ha mejorado el desarrollo humano de las personas al tener acceso a uno de los servicios indispensables para ser productivo. Pero además, ha contribuido a fomentar la participación ciudadana, ya que todas las personas contribuyen al desarrollo de su comunidad y se involucran en las actividades. Finalmente, lo que para muchos sería un problema socio- ambiental, para una comunidad la botella solar contribuye a la Cultura de la Paz.

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Meeting the food security challenge through organic agriculture.

States should integrate organic agriculture objectives within national priorities, FAO says.

Rome, 3 May – “Organic agriculture is no longer a phenomenon in developed countries only, as it is commercially practiced in 120 countries, representing 31 million hectares and a market of US$ 40 billion in 2006,” FAO underlines in a paper Organic Agriculture and Food Security presented here at an International Conference on Organic Agriculture and Food Security (3-5 May 2007).

The paper identifies the strengths and weaknesses of organic agriculture with regards to its contribution to food security. analyzes attributes of organic supply chains against the Right to Food framework and proposes policy and research actions for improving the performance of organic agriculture at the national, international and institutional levels.

“The strongest feature of organic agriculture is its reliance on fossil-fuel independent and locally-available production assets. working with natural processes increases cost-effectiveness and resilience of agro-ecosystems to climatic stress,” the paper says.

“By managing biodiversity in time (rotations) and space (mixed cropping), organic farmers use their labour and environmental services to intensify production in a sustainable way. Organic agriculture also breaks the vicious circle of indebtedness for agricultural inputs which causes an alarming rate of farmers’ suicides.”

The paper recognizes that “most certified organic food production in developing countries goes to export” and adds that “when certified cash crops are linked with agro-ecological improvements and accrued income for poor farmers, this leads to improved food self-reliance and revitalization of small holder agriculture.” (…) Organic Agriculture website: http://www.fao.org/organicag/

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This report was posted on Febrero, 22, 2012.