Three years of development have resulted in a Demonstration Farm in the Community of Bana aimed to help Palliative Care patients have food to eat! A school garden teaches children the principles of Conservation Farming. Seeds are promoting reintroduction of protein crops (peanuts, beans), corn adapted to the altitude and cover crops to add enrichment to the soil. Bana Farm Field School utube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbI3m2xtl_o&list=UUKLdLUrOXVJPkIJuTTJxaAQ

1. Food Security
An Introduction To Our African Experience in the
Community of Bana
2011- 2014
Presentation
Prepared By
Allan and Lydia Sorflaten
September 20,2014

2. - Pre-Departure -
Meet In Winnipeg With Canada Food Grains Bank
(October 2012)

3. Develop Conservation Agriculture Study Guide for
Farmer Field Schools

4. Nutrition Manual Prepared for Two Day Seminar

6. .BANA
BEFANG
BAMENDA
BANA

7. Mme. Oussematou
Dynamic & Determined/Caring & Compassionate
----- A Powerful Personality Who Gets Things Done ----- !

8. Bana

9. Problems Identified....
• Depleted soil
• Insufficient food supply
• People poorly nourished
• People without money to buy food, seeds or
fertilizer
• No social safety net
• People suffering HIV AIDS, malnutrition,
diabetes, hypertension, rickets, blindness

10. Highly Leached Tropical Soils
Vulnerable to Effects of Long Term Erosion and
Poor Cropping Practices

11. Inadequate Supplies of Food at the Bana Market

12. A Mother Of Five
No Money to Buy Food
No Social Safety Net

13. Elderly Blind Diabetic Without
Family. Has Food When Someone
Happens To Bring Him Some.

14. Approach the Problems....
2011- Presented an introduction to Conservation
Farming and Basic Nutrition
2012-Full week seminar
-Demo plot using Conservation Farming
Principals
-Allocation of land for Demonstration Farm
2014-Conservation Farms Bana Demonstration Farm,
School Gardens, Rogers’ farm and others.
-Development of a Pallative Care Program (home
visits, rice, soap, matches, beans and toilet paper)

15. Opening Day of Week Long Seminar

16. Participants Appreciate their Study Guides

17. Practical Demonstrations Introduce Basic Principles

18. Show Differences Btw. Various Soil Types

19. Demonstration Plot As Part of Conservation Farming
Workshop

20. Bana Farm Field School Participants

21. Foods Prepared From Local Products
(Cassava Leaves Are Not Normally Used But Are High In Vitamins)
Cassava Leaves

23. Certificates of Completion Are Proudly Displayed

24. Meeting the Traditional Chief of Bana November 2011
(On Left is Joseph Tafrey, President of IDF & Farmer From Befang)

25. 2012: King Designates Land For
Demonstration Farm

26. Land Clearing Demonstration Farm

27. Rocks Are Split By Hand And Contoured

28. Planting Done Using Conservation
Farming Principles

29. Our Visit To The Farm March 2014

30. Bringing
Water By
Pipe To The
Lower Part Of
The Farm

31. Hand Watering On The Flat Allows For Growing Year Round

32. Delivering Food To Palliative Care
Patients

33. Bana School Garden Results

34. Seeds For All

35. Thank You To
Mme Oussematou for her Dedication