It Starts With a Seed-HD.m4v

Short promotional clip that illustrates the vital role that good quality seed has to contribute to efforts to eradicate hunger and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. The clip was produced by Self Help Africa for submission to the Gates Foundation, 2011.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• charity
• cause
• help
• self help africa
• farming
• sub-Saharan Africa
• end hunger
• nonprofit
• human rights
• south
• non-government

[SelfHelpAfricaTV]

You are right - seed alone is not the answer, and the proper care and management of the soil is also vital to ensure that farming is sustainable for millions of African small-holders. Seed is a vital component however, and the timely supply of good quality seed can, and is having a dramatic positive effect on agricultural producers in sub-Saharan Africa.

[neilamillionaire]

Beautiful video, seed really is that important isn't it...

[SheilaKomen]

This is a beautiful short, crips and precise clip on importance of seed. It tells the story of Africa's major problem.

[remelone]

Good quality seed will help, but with monocropping and poor soils (a product of monocropping), the only way to get a good produce is to create more soil. This can be done myriad ways: water harvesting to "plant the rain;" composting; cover-cropping; not tilling up the soil; regular mulching green mulch that's not tilled in, just cut and layed to self-compost; sheet mulching. Pretty much permacultural principles. If you don't give back to the soil each season, what's left for it to give you?