Agroforestry And Container Gardening
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Container gardening is related to agroforestry. Vegetables and trees can be grown in bottles and pots. It is an inexpensive and simple method to alleviate hunger and poverty, and a contribution to limit global warming through reforestation.
![AGROFORESTRY, CONTAINER GARDENING AND CLIMATE CHANGE Prof. Dr. Willem VAN COTTHEMHonorary Professor University of Ghent (Belgium)Beeweg 36 - BE 9080 ZAFFELARE (Belgium)willem.vancotthem@gmail.comhttp://desertification.wordpress.comhttp://www.seedsforfood.orghttp://containergardening.wordpress.comhttp://zadenvoorleven.wordpress.com Recently we have been discussing with colleagues and friends the need to link forestry and agriculture (agroforestry) in order to motivate local people in the drylands to do the fieldwork of a reforestation project by offering them first a family garden at the very start of the project. Hungry people with an empty stomach don’t plant thousands of trees easily and with enthusiasm. We have never been in favor of ‘Food for Work’, because it is not changing the cause of hunger. We would rather change it into ‘A Kitchen Garden for Work’.The ‘Seeds for Food’ action is heading for a remarkable success (http://www.seedsforfood.org). People from all over Europe, even from Canada and the USA, are nowadays sending us seeds of vegetables and fruit trees. After proper treatment they are sent for free to different development projects in the drylands, e.g. to refugee camps, where people start constructing family gardens and school gardens.We believe that people, in particular children, are strongly interested in container gardening. We have published a photo album on Facebook about some simple experiments we did at home, growing avocado seeds in plastic bottles and yoghurt pots:,[object Object]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/agroforestryandcontainergardening-100212191236-phpapp01/85/Agroforestry-And-Container-Gardening-1-320.jpg)
