Annual Report 2014

sustainable rural development

“The purpose behind this is to develop the capacities of very small producers, with the idea of promoting crops for internal consumption”, explains Alda Rodríguez, founder of BIO Uruguay Internacional. ORGANIC ORCHARDS This recycling project is complemented with a programme that promotes production alternatives while conserving local natural resources, implemented by the organisation BIO Uruguay Internacional. Under this premise, a proposal was made to strengthen the capacities of the inhabitants of Arévalo for sustainable development and an improvement in quality of life through organic production and the processing of food for their own consumption and sale. “The purpose behind this is to develop the capacities of very small producers, with the idea of promoting crops for internal consumption”, explains Alda Rodríguez, founder of BIO Uruguay Internacional, an organisation that seeks to promote social organisation and community ties. “We intend to develop the skills of the people working together in the community”, stresses the founder. With a view to achieving these goals, in July BIO Uruguay Internacional began to teach workshops at the school, taking the school orchardas an example. During these courses we work together on practical and theoretical issues such as the organisation and planning of the allotment, the assembly of raised

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