AfriAquaSys

Poverty, Food Security, the Environment and Empowerment

It seems like the world is caught in a death spiral.

• Poverty and inequality ravage large part of the developing world.

• Water quality and resources are polluted.

• Bio diversity has degraded. Mono culture (in the plant and animal kingdoms) is threatening nature's balance.

• Energy (which is the bed rock of economic development) that is derived from traditional sources is poisoning nature. Worst case scenarios predict "a total meltdown of earth's climate balance, within our life time. "

• Rainfall pattern changes threatens food production and food security. Africa is in the firing line with this phenomenon.

• Climate change is possibly the biggest challenge man kind has ever faced.

In Africa (generally, but not exclusively) there are burning questions around socio-economic development for previously disadvantaged communities.

What is clear, is that the world CANNOT just keep on what it has been doing for the last century.

A new chapter in sustainable, no effluent, empowered farming

Havilah is in the process of developing (and trialling) new technologies that will enable:

1. Smaller pieces of "unsuitable" land to become agri-productive. (This includes discarded, and possible unsuitable due to past use) industrial land.

2. Make these smaller pieces of land economically viable for SME use. (Both in the rural and urban setting)

3. Integrate such produce into (inter)national supply chain with full production traceability and world-best practice. (In line with the Havilah Construction model)

4. Use almost no water compared to traditional practices.

5. In the process use (and clean) polluted water.

6. Be carbon neutral in its farming practice.

7. Subscribe to the "Farm-to-Fork" in initiative of the EU.

Detail will be published as soon as the trial results are in and have been verified!!