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Severe disease problems on bananas worldwide are making it increasingly difficult for smaller producers to continue cultivating this crop. An enthusiastic banana specialist has dedicated his life to working on producing excellent quality bananas, aimed at improving production and disease resistance for small banana producers. Now, five new hybrid plants are available from Honduras. They are all semi-dwarf, resistant to nematodes and most common diseases and are very productive:
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The role of churches in development In this Bible story from Matthew 14:13-21, Jesus gives lessons in development to his Church, and he chooses to do it through a miracle. Jesus shows himself as a facilitator, using appropriate methods to share ideas. This story could be seen as a lesson on development given by Jesus to his disciples. A good development worker must know how to teach, using educational material like Jesus did.
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Advice from some successful groups Put the trainees’ needs firstIn Uganda the Community Based Health Care Association (UCBHCA) has found that the way training is organised and conducted is very important. They give first priority to making sure the training is relevant to the needs of their trainees, participatory and appropriate for adult learners. They believe that their training is a model for the way in which trainees will, in turn, share what they learn. Their facilitators are therefore ...
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Bees and teams – what do they have in common?
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In Footsteps 37 you had an article on ‘building up your library’. The design shown could be improved by adding bricks under the bottom shelf in case water seeps in, so the bricks – not the books – would be damaged. I also recommend from experience, tilting the library at a slight angle towards the wall. Then if a child decides to climb it, the bookcase will fall inward rather than outward.
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Following community discussions in 1989, people in Ekwendeni identified a lack of food security as a major problem affecting the whole community, particularly during the rainy season when food can be hard to find. After a number of meetings and discussions, grain banks were established in 1992. Each bank is managed by a committee of ten local people, eight of whom are women! They receive no outside support. During harvest time, people need money in exchange for their maize. During the rainy ...
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by Dennis and Meredith Murnyak. The Fish Farming Project is a training and extension programme in northern Tanzania begun in l984 as part of the holistic ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania (ELCT). It promotes and teaches basic techniques on raising tilapia fish in ponds dug in earth. The project focuses on working with subsistence farmers to raise fish as food for their families and for sale to increase their income. However, their ideas for training could be used in many ...
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Being an advocate Read Nehemiah 1-2 and Exodus 2-5 These stories about Nehemiah and Moses show that there are various stages and approaches to learn from, when acting as an advocate.
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by Andrew Wheeler. The Dinka and Nuer people of Southern Sudan had been in conflict with each other for many years. Cattle raiding, armed fights, abducting women and children and fighting over fishing and grazing rights had resulted in a band of ‘no-man’s land’ 50–100 miles wide between them. This strip of land contained much of the best dry season grazing and fishing.
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When we Christians get involved directly in advocacy, whether our concern is to support the life of one individual or a whole community, our participation reflects the maturity and conscience of our shared faith. Individual salvation ceases to be our main aim. Advocacy is the start of a process where we become responsible for what God has asked of us from the beginning: to take care of the lives of our brothers and sisters.
