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Edition
05: 01 November, 2010.
Edition
07 : 22 December, 2013.
01. E-course : Diploma in Integrated Development (Dip. Int. Dev)
SECTION A : DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMS.
Study value :
04 points out of 18.
Indicative
study time: 112 hours out of 504.
Study points
are awarded only after the consolidated exam for Section A : Development
Problems has been passed.
First block : Poverty and quality of life.
Study value :
02 points out of 18.
Indicative
study time: 57 hours out of 504.
Study points
are awarded only after the consolidated exam for Section A : Development
Problems has been passed.
First block : Poverty and quality of life. [57 hours]
First Block : Section 1.
Analysis of the causes of poverty. [26.50 hours]
First Block : Section 2. Services needed for a good quality of
life. [26.50 hours]
First Block : Exam. [ 4 hours each attempt]
First Block : Section 2. Services needed for a good quality of
life. [26.50 hours]
Part 2 : In depth
analysis of the services needed for a good quality of life. [14.00 hours]
01. In depth - the bases of a
good quality of life.
02. In depth - physical
safety.
04. In depth - drinking water.
05. In depth - well/borehole
area.
08. In depth - health and
sanitation.
09. In depth - complete system
for waste recycling.
10. In depth - dry composting
toilet.
11. In depth - education for
all.
13. In depth - social security
system.
Report on Section 2 of
Block 1 : [06.00 Hours]
Part 2 : In depth
analysis of the services needed for a good quality of life. [14.00 hours]
07. In depth - food security.
(At least 60 minutes)
Read
document 09.56
Towards Food Sovereignty : A Future without Hunger, Pimbert M., IIED,
Look at slide :
“It is more effective to prevent child undernutrition than to treat it
[Ruel et al, 2008] and therefore investments aiming at improving nutrition should focus on the thousand day
period [from conception to two years of age]. There is a clear window of opportunity
for addressing malnutrition and after
age two this window closes rapidly. “ (Grebmer K. et al, 2010 Global Hunger index : The
Challenge of Hunger, Welt
Hunger Hilfe, IFPRI International Food Policy Research Institute, Concern
worldwide, Bonn, Washington D.C., Dublin, October 2010, p.26). The cited reference is to Ruel, M.et al, Age-based preventive targeting
of food assistance and behaviour change and communication for reduction of
childhood undernutrition in Haiti : A
cluster randomised trial. The Lancet,
Local production for local consumption.
“The seed, the source of life,
the embodiment of our biological and cultural diversity, the link between the
past and the future of evolution, the common property of past, present and
future generations of farming communities who have been seed breeders, is today
being stolen from the farmers and being sold back to us as “propriety seed”
owned by corporations like the US-headquartered Monsanto…… The commodified seed
is ecologically incomplete and ruptured at two levels: First, it does not
reproduce itself, while, by definition, seed is a regenerative resource.
Genetic resources are thus, through technology, transformed from a renewable
into a non-renewable resource. Second, it does not produce by itself; it needs
the help of purchased inputs.” (Shiva V., Great seed robbery, Deccan Chronicle, Secunderabad, 30 April, 2011.)
Seed is therefore in the process of being genetically transformed from
“a renewable into a non-renewable resource.”
The following illustration
shows a tin of tomato concentrate with a net weight of 68 gr. The basic product
(the concentrate) is imported in bulk , often from
Look at the photograph :
The
You have already read the article How America is Betraying the Hungry
Children of Africa, by Alex Renton, Observer, 27 May 2007.
“The ideology reflected in
[Kenya’s] “Vision
1. Opinion.
Considering the comments made in the
initial section Analysis :Food
security, especially those on the local production of food,
make a two-page report on the need
for international commerce in food, who benefits from it and how. On the first
page, take the point of view of industrialised countries. On the second page, take
the point of view of developing countries.
Read the report written by Rice T. Meals per gallon (Action Aid,
2. Research.
On one page,
analyse the possibilities for small scale, sustainable production of Jatropha
for fuel for local use in your chosen project area.
Cultivation of food at household level: local food
production for local consumption.
In
the Analysis: Food security, we saw that waste
and grey water in a household of five people amount to
Homes in developing countries are often small. Their roofs are not
always flat. Space around the dwellings is not always available. Vertical
gardens offer a simple solution to the problem. We are not talking here of
large industrial constructions for large towns in industrialised
countries ! This is about very simple structures.
Look at the following :
Facilities for the storage of locally produced food
for local consumption.
3. Research.
On one page, make a list of the 10 staple
foods most used in your project area, indicating whether they are locally
produced. If they are not locally produced, are there any alternatives to them
which could be produced locally?
Make a calculation of the total amounts
of each of the ten staple foods consumed in your project area each year.
For each of the staple foods which can
be locally produced, make a graph with
two lines. One line shows the harvesting month by month of the foodstuff in
question. The other shows typical month
by month consumption of the foodstuff throughout the year. You can use, for
instance, a continuous line for the harvests, and a dotted line for the
consumption.
On the basis of your graph, make a
calculation of the maximum volume to be stored in your project area for each of
the staple foods in question.
Use and cultivation of
seeds.
Read
the short note on how to harvest and conserve seeds.
Once
local money systems have been set up in each of the integrated development
project areas, production of seeds and plant nurseries using local seeds can begin, starting with local seeds, for
sale to «domestic farmers ». This will become an important sector of
productive activities in each project area. The activities can be carried out
at individual level, family level, or by cooperatives.
Three
levels of activity are foreseen :
a)
at tank commission level – the most common plants.
b)
at well commission level – «supplementary plants » which will not be
grown by all the families.
c)
at project level– more specialised plants.
Obviously,
everyone is free to take his/her own initiative. A person, family, or
cooperative interested in promoting specific plants or applications is always
free to do so. Consider, for example, medicinal plants or the (careful !
informed !) introduction and distribution of species not yet known in the
project area.
On
interesting aspect of plant nurseries is that they can provide hundreds of productive occupations for blind and
handicapped people.
4. Research.
Take the list of seeds you prepared
during your preliminary
analysis, re-group the list of seeds produced in your area into
the three levels given above - (tank
level -250 persons, bore-hole level –
1.500 persons , project level 50.000 persons) and calculate the requirements in
plants needed at each level. Where it is not necessary to cultivate a product
because of its availability in the wild, or where it cannot be produced locally,
make a note of this on your list.
For a general resource on current levels of hunger in the world, refer
to van Grebmer K. et al, 2009 Global Hunger index, Welt Hunger Hilfe,
IFPRI International Food Policy Research Institute, Concern worldwide, Bonn,
Washington D.C., Dublin, October 2009.
◄ First block :
Poverty and quality of life.
◄ Index : Diploma in Integrated Development (Dip.Int.Dev)
