6. Grow local Eat Local
SEANET helps schools develop school gardens that feed students and
stimulate community gardens that feed locals
7. CATCH, KEEP, USE RAINWATER
Katosi womens development trust train women masons in the
community in the skills rainwater harvesting and building water
tanks.
8. Community and kindness
In Todmorden they grow food everywhere and encourage people to take what they
need. They show kindness works, and it is spreading to 33 other towns.
9. Let nature do its work
In Growing Power’s aquaponics plants clean the water that is fed to fish by
gravity. The fish put nutrients into the water which is pumped to the plants
10. Intimate knowledge of where you live: Indigenuity
CHRP in Maharashtra State: Community members create a detailed map of
the village to identify water catchment areas. Then they ladscape.
11. Influence government using what works
The municipality of Port Elizabeth is willing to pay for watershed services
and is in negotiation
12. Bring Science close to people
MSSRF set up Village 17 village knowledge centres to bridge the rural-urban
knowledge divide