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Permaculture and sustainable farming resources
'Permaculture' combines the ideas of permanent agriculture and permanent culture.
The importance of Fair Trade
Fair Trade is a small but growing movement that offers a progressive alternative to the conventional model of trade.
Food sovereignty
Food sovereignty refers to the right to produce food on one's own territory. The protection of local biodiversity is key to building natural resistance to turbulent climates and market forces.
The pressures on land use
The world has a limited amount of land available for growing food. And the available land has increasing demands put on it.
The Realities of Fundraising
During the process we describe here, we followed the lines of the folder Guide to Fundraising , which both of us helped to write. For any fundraiser, downloading and studying the guide is the first step.
Before you write that Email requesting Funding
Is you NGO looking for funding? Have you been – or will you be – sending out emails requesting money? Stop for a moment and consider how you do it.
Early Childhood Development
Are you working in the field of Early Childhood Development? Or in a related field – health, education, nutrition? Child Development is important for us all because the future of every country is bound up with the quality of its future adults. We need them to be as healthy as possible, as bright and hard-working and productive as possible.
Assessing a Training Component
National and international consultants are used for evaluations of projects and most have a thorough knowledge of their own specialism. Increasingly, though, projects have training components that also need assessing, even though the consultant is not really a trainer. This paper assumes that s/he is not very knowledgeable and could use a few suggestions.