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Innovations from FSG staff

Innovations from FSG staff. Presentation at Follow up PID workshop Polokwane, 28 March 2006. Process. Introduction to PID Reflect on relevance for project work Assignment to identify local innovations and processes Award: trip to Limpopo Six submissions, range of innovations Winner….

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Innovations from FSG staff

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  1. Innovations from FSG staff Presentation at Follow up PID workshop Polokwane, 28 March 2006

  2. Process • Introduction to PID • Reflect on relevance for project work • Assignment to identify local innovations and processes • Award: trip to Limpopo • Six submissions, range of innovations • Winner…..

  3. Substitute for funeral slaughter • Impact of AIDS in communities: Soaring death rates, funerals &expenditure, decrease in cattle nrs • Buying a whole beast as is tradition enhances HH vulnerability • Families in Msinga Top now buy from butchery parts of beast critical to funeral: head and intestines • Origin not clear; nor uptake; needs further investigation By Maxwell Mudhara

  4. Measure for planting in rows • When working as extension worker he had to advice farmers to plant in neat rows • Mr Mbanjwa from Vulindlela designed a device to measure and indicate rows for planting his maize • His first design was made from wood, and later from iron • Not shared with other farmers; documented in field report and thesis By BJ Njokwe

  5. Prevent moles from eating plants • A farmer in the Table Mountain area (Pmb) successfully prevented moles from eating sweet potatoes • How: by planting amadumbe (taro) in between rows • FSG staff want to try this out in some of their projects By BJ Njokwe

  6. Pulling together By Michael Malinga • In Potshini, seven men have revived and adjusted the practice of “ilimo”, working together on the field • Only two members receive pension, others are unemployed and don’ receive remittances. They own a total of over 60 head of cattle • They formed a group in 2000 and formalized this in 2004: “Isixaxa Mbiji”: Pulling Together in cropping and livestock farming (planting five fields of over 1.5 ha), and buying inputs in bulk • Members pay R100 pm, they have a bank account and three storage rooms. No records were available • They are overwhelmed by request from other community members to assist. The group is now living off farming. They intend to buy a Nguni bull and own their own farm. • Uptake: One group in the areas is trying out the idea • Issues: Patience, mutual respect, give and take. Some family members don’t support the idea of sharing and unity.

  7. Food insecurity • A man in Msinga lost his job and didn’t have money to buy food. He had livestock: 32 sheep and lambs, 60 goats and 17 cows. He wanted to keep his status as a man and not slaughter his livestock. He then came up with the idea to cut the sheep’s tail to feed his family • The story was told by a neighbour. The farmer has passed away. It is not known how long the family lived off this, what issues emerged, and uptake • Other staff said that commercial farmers cut of tails of livestock to prevent diseases, and whether this farmer might have observed this By Ncengimpilo Khanyile

  8. Sorghum – bird protection • Burn mixture of trees [Msuzwane, Tyre, Melethned] every three days; smoke goes in sorghum and sticks to grain, so birds won’t eat them • New? Did not hear it before • Remark: environmental risk? • Mr. Dlame by Kees Swaans, Msinga - Mkhupula

  9. Home garden – HIV-infection • Woman build a small home garden in a river bed, protected by thorn trees against goats/cows. Her 11-year old boy helps her in the garden. • New? Community garden too far; so she took initiative herself (only example I saw) • 26 year old woman by Kees Swaans, Msinga - Mkhupula

  10. Funeral donation • In one area, collect 5 R and bread per household to give to affected household (up to 600 R) • New? Before saving scheme (10 R per hh to bank account for hh and two relatives – up to 1000 R for hh, 600 for relatives). But not possible to maintain (why?). • Interesting: various donation/saving schemes • Mkhuphula – Nhlungwane by Kees Swaans, Msinga - Mkhupula

  11. Stock-theft protection • People buy/sell a goat/cow with ID in presence of witness (neighbours); anyone walking around with goat/cow can be asked where they bought it. • New? Did not exist in area or neighbouring areas before; Induna had to ask Inkosi for permission to introduce system. • Msinga – Mkhuphula by Kees Swaans, Msinga - Mkhupula

  12. Farmer Life School • Stakeholders in health and agriculture get together to improve food security and well-being among HIV/AIDS affected households via farmer learning groups (incl. focus on innovation) • New? Builds on experiences with FFS in Africa; and experience with FLS in Asia (focus on innovation in combination with HIV/AIDS seems new. • Msinga – partnership between FSG, Sinozwelo d.i.c., Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and three support groups by Kees Swaans, Msinga - Mkhupula

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