I'll write the content as full paragraphs later. You can help by formatting the headings ;-) And adding categories, links to portals or whatever else needs doing for this page to be a proper member of appropedia (in the public domain). Nah, I'll do it. Thanks anyway. :-)

Please, use the "discussion" tab to add your comments and ideas. I just need some time to write all this done. Thanks for your patience.

Oh, and much thanks to L and V for their ideas, comments and support.

LucasG 11:21, 19 July 2008 (PDT)

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• • public domain 20080719
  • LucasG
  • http://www.globalswadeshi.net

Why

Context

• 6 ways to die
  • Hunger and Thirst, directly
  • Too hot and Too cold, food gives shade, shelter and fuel
  • Disease, food gives nutrition and farmacy, and waste treatment is good for health
  • Injury, food gives shelter and more importantly one less reason to fight each other
• Food just grows vs Food systems are ill
  • Globalised
    • External dependency
    • Just In Time = No Stocks
    • Economic efficiency = No Redundancy
    • Cheap food != Good for you
  • Outcome
    • Poverty
    • Bad health
    • Supply risk
• Levels from individual to global
  • Individual, household, town (50% FAO?) < 10 km (walk, bike)
  • Region (25% FAO?) < 100 km (car, truck)
  • World (25% or less FAO?) > 100 km (boats, trains, planes)

Aim

• Food: 2000 cal/person-day
• Water: 15 liters/person-day
• Irrigation: 100 liters/person-day?

Goal = Help

• Assess
  • Present situation
  • Assetts
  • Distance to horizon
  • Blockage points
  • First steps
• Change
  • Motivation
  • Design
  • Principles
  • Methods
  • Do
  • Help doers

Product = Deliverable

• Open content
• Text
• Video
• Translations

What

Food growth

• Place
  • Land
    • Surface per yield
    • Surface per person
  • Containers
  • Square Foot Gardening
  • EarthBox
  • Bag Garden
  • KeyHole Garden
  • Vertical
• Soil
  • Features
  • Mixtures
  • No-till
• Nutrients
  • Companion plants, green compost
  • Compost, tea compost, humanure, chicken tractors, worms, algae
  • SolarCone, Akvo.org (sanitation)
  • Waste
    • Plants, Kitchen, Humans
• Water
  • Rain catchment, Pyramid, Akvo.org (water)
  • SODIS, WaterCone, deep seawater (cold)
  • Pumps, Selfwatering methods
• Seeds
  • Seedballing, networks, dry, store, select
  • Which crops?
    • Calories
    • Yield
    • Simple to grow
    • Robust crops
    • What do people use all over the world, and locally?
• Protection
  • From
    • Sun, Wind, Pests, Excess water, Animals
  • With
    • Cover, other plants, chemicals, counterbugs, mulch
• Time
  • 3-4 months or more
  • Seasonality - related to storage of food and seeds
• Knowledge
  • Plants
  • Weather
• Work
  • People
    • Attention
    • Bend back
    • Work seated
  • Tools
    • Simple
      • Cup, pencil, etc
    • Complicated
      • Irrigation system, LifeTrac, etc
    • Open design?
  • Kinds of work
    • plant, care, harvest, process
  • # Hours
  • # People
• Climate-Weather
• Non-plant food
  • What: eggs, meat (poultry, rabbits, pigs, cows), fish (sea, ponds, ferrocement tanks), fungi, algae
  • Nutrients, "housing" & care, process, market

Food system

• Transport = catchment area
  • Walk <10 km (individual, town)
  • Bike < 30 km (individual, town)
  • Motor > 30 km (region, world)
• Store
  • Cold
    • Pot in pot, deep sea water, in ground
  • Conserve
    • Solar dryer, Salt
• Cook
  • Solar cooker, cushions, stoves
• Economy
  • Price of food
  • Workers wages
  • Price of inputs
  • Taxes and subsidies
  • Local currencies
    • Buy local means Grow local
    • Fab Lab makes coins?
  • Futures markets = measure risk
  • Business oportunities
    • Grow, Food industries, Sell
    • Support with know-how, make tools, share tools
    • TTT = training, tools, trade
• Regulations
  • Land
  • Food industries
  • Public health
  • Machinery
• Mindset
  • Different people's points of view
  • I'm a farmer, I grow my food, We grow our food
  • Changes here are powerful (Donna Meadows)
  • Changes here may be beyond your sphere of influence

How

Global

• DNA of the project
  • Define
  • Refine
  • Share
• Aim = Usable Content
  • Text
    • 200 pages
  • Video
    • 10 hours
  • TV
    • 200 hours, see Vinay's project
• License
  • Template: ask for open license: what, Why, What, How
  • If not, find open alternatives
  • If not, re-invent, re-photo, re-video
• Ecosystem of cooperation (**)
  • Create content
  • Compile
  • Translate
    • dotsub.com
    • traduwiki.org
    • etc
  • Use
  • All benefit
    • like linux developers
    • linux user groups = local geeks
    • linux end users

Local

• Motivation = Energy for Change
  • Want to
    • Mindset shift
  • Have to
    • Urgent need
• Grow
• Teach
• Business
• Science
• People
  • Available time
  • Skills
• Ecosystem of facilitation (**)
  • Accelerate
  • Leverage
  • Business model(s)
    • Open franchising
  • Transition
    • From fossil-based fertilisers and pesticides
    • From global to local