[Pil-pc-oceania] FW: [asfs] sustainable farming in africa. FORWARDED REQUEST FROM ANOTHER LIST.

[Liane Colwell]

Hi Gang

Some of you might like to contribute or respond to this email below from
another list. The bulk of them are in America so there will be a delay of a
few hours in getting a reply.

Fondest always

Liane 

PS Wasn¹t Landline fantastic on Sunday! Food Forest was one of the best
segments ever!

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From: Nathalie Jordi <nathalie.jordi at gmail.com>
Reply-To: ASFS ListServ <asfs at lists.nyu.edu>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 13:16:57 +0100
To: ASFS ListServ <asfs at lists.nyu.edu>
Subject: [asfs] sustainable farming in africa

Hello again, ever so resourceful list:
 
My sister works for a university that is building a new campus in Tanzania.
They want to make it ultra-sustainable, and are currently looking into the
viability of growing their own food--or organizing local farmers to grow
it--for 1,200 students.  It's in a coffee-and-tea-growing zone so the
climate is favorable, but nothing of this magnitude currently exists, so
they are having difficulty coming up with answers to questions like: the
amount of land required; the Tanzania-specific price difference between
buying food and growing it oneself; the Tanzania-specific price difference
between growing food with chemicals and growing organically, and so on.
 
They are still in the very early, conceptual phase, so whether this is even
do-able is still up in the air.  But how amazing would this be if it got
pulled off?!  So we are looking for people to talk to about:
 
--sustainable agriculture in Africa
 
OR 
 
--college campuses growing/sourcing their own local food
 
OR 
 
--the logistics of producing enough food to feed 1200 people?

Does anybody know brilliant people who might advise?
 
 
Thanks,
Nathalie
 

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Nathalie Jordi
www.eatingwithstrangers.com <http://www.eatingwithstrangers.com>
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