Project Detail

Tradição e Desenvolvimento Socioambiental: A farinhada no assentamento Salobro, gerando vida e sustentabilidade

The Project aims to strengthen cassava production by adapting the flour and starch manufacturing system, through the implementation of a flour house, with industrial and other traditional equipment with the aim of promoting the processing of cassava in a quality product for consumption and commercialization, generating income for producing families; take advantage of cassava by-products to feed animals through the construction and structuring of free-range pig breeding space; implementation of an equipped kitchen attached to the flour mill to facilitate women's work in preparing meals and better organization of the time of women who work in the flour mill; the project provides training for young people and women, exchanges and a field day to learn about the production area using more sustainable and agroecological techniques; The budget foresees the hiring of a technician to monitor the project during the 24 months, with his work organized and planned on a daily basis, facilitating his remuneration.

Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Associação Comunitária de Desenvolvimento Rural Comunidade Salobro

Country:

Brazil

Area Of Work:

Biodiversity

Operational Phase:

OP7 Y6 (July 25-June 26)

Grant Amount:

US$ 36,387.00

Co-Financing Cash:

Co-Financing in-Kind:

Project Number:

BRA/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/BD/2023/35/16

Start Date:

7/2023

End Date:

9/2025

Status:

Currently under execution

Project Characteristics and Results

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

? Encourage increased production and cultivation of cassava; ? Increase family income through the sale of cassava products; ? Use cassava by-products to feed animals; ? Adjust the quality of flour and starch for the local market; ? Encourage the participation of young people, with the support of adults and the elderly, in the flour and starch production process; ? Use clean energy in the Settlement?s production systems; ? Improve women's working conditions during the flour production period, as well as generating income with the continuous operation of the site with the processing of family farming products.

Capacity - Building Component

? Gum extraction workshop ? women dough washers ? assistance with other farmers with experience in gum extraction; ? Exchange at a flour mill that already works, to exchange experiences ? cassava producers ? 18 people will participate. ? Workshop for learning and handling flour mill equipment ? all beneficiaries ? advice from a farmer with experience in handling this equipment. ? Culinary capacity building on products derived from family farming ? 20 women from the community ? course taught by a cook who knows how to make cake, peta, homemade sweets. ? Workshop on the practice of crop consortium and organic coverage to reduce the effects of droughts caused by climate change and recovery of areas degraded by cassava cultivation ? community farmers ? agroforestry technician, hired on an hourly basis. ? Workshop for preparing animal feed with reuse of cassava by-products ? 20 people representing families who raise small animals - assistance from Ecoescola Thomas a Kempis. ? Field day on cassava production with agroecological practices ? for all farmers in the community ? in a production area experienced in agroecological practices.

Gender Focus

? Providing space for active voice, giving importance to the role of women in building collective activities, listening to their desires, proposals and needs; ? Providing optimization of time in food preparation, through a space closer to the work environment, during the cassava processing period; ? Strengthening women's organizations in the community that encourage women's active search for governance spaces in organizational management.

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

? Sharing learning and cassava by-products on social networks; ? Participating in meetings, seminars, meetings and fairs in the region and in other spaces; ? Giving lectures to publicize the successful results and informing communities for the rich faced in implementing the project; ? Carrying out exchanges to exchange experiences; ? Receiving visits to demonstrate the results achieved with the project; ? Holding fairs in the locality to display and sell community products; ? Sharing samples of community products.

Policy Impact

Holding a meeting with other organizations and public authorities to discuss direct selling policies ? Holding an event to discuss and build concrete paths that help farmers sell their products without the need for a middleman. This space for collective construction of active search for product improvement and commercialization with public authorities and other organizations aiming to encourage public policies that benefit small producers and agroecological-based family farming, the meeting will be held twice a year, on the first and in the second semester.

Notable Community Participation

including young people in maintaining tradition and the elderly in passing on knowledge and knowledge given to them by the land. Active listening is the method we will use to make the exchange of knowledge happen. The work and activities will include all the necessary and important agents to make the process happen, inserting youth protagonism, through their creativity, disposition, ease in using technology and their curiosity for new things, handling digital platforms through the feeding of advertising and product dissemination. Elderly people are a precious source of ancestral knowledge that will help pass on to future generations the traditions necessary to maintain agricultural and organizational activities.

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