Principles and Pillars

Principles – For Agriculture to be sustainable, it has to be;

It requires to be underpinned by the pillars as shown.

1

Harnessing Social Capital
Farmers working as an organized group.
2

Local Resources
Use of locally available materials for farm and domestic.
3

Resource mobilization
farmers have to set up and use rural savings and loan schemes. In SACDEP known as Banks without walls or BWWs.
4
To use low-cost energy sources for farm and domestic use.
5
Have to harvest conserve and manage water for farm and domestic.
6
Have to add value to farm produce and market in a co-operative structure.
7
Farmers have to be key players in policy formulation in sectors that affect them directly or indirectly.

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