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“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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