Bread with herbs from Schlockerhof
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Dossier

Food

Enough to eat and good ingredients are the basis for a healthy life. In our dossier, we present examples from all over the world that focus on nutrition. These include an agricultural cooperative in India that is promoting organic farming, and farmers in Ethiopia who fight against the erosion of their agricultural land. In the Rhine-Main region, a nursery with the cultivation of local herbs provides more spice for cooking and at the same time preserves biodiversity.

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Dandelions in the cheesecake

450 people with disabilities are employed in the workshops of the Schlocker-Stiftung charitable trust in Hattersheim. The plant nursery cultivates local wild herbs in the Rhine-Main region with the support of KfW Stiftung.

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Banking of agricultural land in Ethiopia

Using knowledge to combat erosion

Agricultural land in Ethiopia has to feed more and more people. To stop the degradation of their land, many farmers are actively committed to a KfW project that promotes sustainable land management and ensures water supply in their country.

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organic farmer india

On the road to success with organic agriculture

The agricultural cooperative Sahaja Organics promotes organic farming in India. It helps Indian farmers switch to organic farming, sells their products and has become a role model for this approach.

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Ackerdemia is growing vegetables together with school children

Crops in the schoolyard

Ackerdemia is bringing the veggie patch into the school and convinced the jury of the KfW Entrepreneurs' Award 2018. The project won the Social Entrepreneurship special prize 2018.

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Woman cooking on biogas stove

Smoke-free cooking

Cooking over an open fire is dangerous. Every year, millions of people are killed by toxic smoke. Biogas stoves help to protect the health of mainly women and children. A report from Bangladesh and Nepal.

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A passion for bread

An economist worked in business administration at a municipal electric utility for ten years, until an extraordinary business idea formed from his passion for good bread. The 2018 KfW Entrepreneurs’ Award jury selected the 35-year-old Sebastian Däuwel as state winner for Rhineland-Palatinate for his start-up, Die Brotpuristen (“The Bread Purists”).

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Philippine cook in training

Culinary ambassadors

Two chefs from North Rhine-Westphalia travelled to Manila to teach German cuisine to Filipino apprentices. What they didn’t expect: they also learned a lot from the experience. We report from a country that is rich in young people, but poor in training opportunities.

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Water supply in Uganda

Fast aid during droughts

ARC drought insurance quickly provides African states with funds in the event of an insurance claim. With the new Replica model, international organisations can extend the insurance coverage of the countries and thus help more people faster when a disaster occurs.

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Field in Buchkewadi

Terraces bear fruit

When there is no harvest, many families flee to the city. But the residents of the village of Buchkewadi in India have banded together to stop the leaching of their arable land. One of the village elders explains how they have done it.

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