Casa de Farinha: Tradição, fortalecimento comunitário e sustentabilidade às margens do Rio Capivara
The project aims to serve male and female family farmers in the Discovery Settlement, in the Municipality of Milton Brandão-PI, located in the Alto Rio Poti Landscape, on the banks of the Capivara River, aiming to increase the production of quality flour and starch, generating income for the settlers through the implementation of a cassava processing system (flour house), consequently boosting its cultivation. On the same horizon, there is a search for organizational strengthening of the Settlement, with the inclusion of women, the elderly and young people, in debates and decision-making. The project will include training processes through workshops, lectures and courses for beneficiary families. It will guarantee quality water for family consumption and environmental protection with the implementation of a cistern to capture and store rainwater, through the implementation of 8 16,000 liter cisterns. The activities will be developed and carried out with the help of the people who would benefit through compensation, on a collective and sharing basis.
Project Snapshot
Grantee:
Associação para o Assentamento Descoberta
Country:
Brazil
Area Of Work:
Biodiversity
Grant Amount:
US$ 36,350.00
Co-Financing Cash:
Co-Financing in-Kind:
Project Number:
BRA/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/BD/2023/35/21
Status:
Currently under execution
Project Characteristics and Results
Capacity - Building Component
- Capacity building for flour and starch production and equipment handling ? All beneficiaries of the project. It will be taught by a farmer who already has experience in flour production.
- Culinary workshop for the production of pêta and cake ? Aimed at women and young people, the Milton Brandão Rural Workers Union will provide someone to teach.
- Youth and culture week ? Construction of a program aimed at young people that involves entertainment and training around the community's culture. The program will be created by young people from the community.
- Exchange to get to know a flour mill that already works and exchange experiences ? All beneficiaries of the project
- Capacity building on correct water use ? Everyone in the community will be taught by a person who has experience with ASA cistern projects.
Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods
? Implementation/Construction of the flour house ? construction of a structure with a total area of 98 m2, carried out in stages from planning to choosing the location, hiring a professional (engineer), purchasing the material, defining the helper workforce, through joint efforts, with the people of the settlement themselves, inclusion of women in helping to prepare food during the execution of the activity, in planning, monitoring, controlling and delivering material and painting the flour mill;
? Capacity building to improve flour production, adding value to the product ? holding 02 workshops with the participation of all beneficiaries, consultancy/monitoring and teaching material for participating people;
? Implementation of eight (08) 16 thousand liter cisterns to store rainwater ? Built in accordance with the experience of ASA Brasil's 1 Million Cistern Program. The labor of the helpers, digging the hole, and food will be compensated by the benefiting families. Bricklayer labor will be paid for by the resources raised through the project;
? Capacity building on correct use of water ? The course will be carried out by a person who has experience with cistern projects using the methodology used by ASA Brasil, and who has already advised on the Water Resource Management course. Participation will be with everyone in the Settlement;
? Holding 02 Workshops ? Two (02) workshops: one for the production of flour and starch, with all beneficiaries of the project, taught by a farmer who already has experience in flour production and handling household equipment flour, through theory and practice methodology; second workshop on pêta and cake production, aimed at women and young people, in partnership with the Union of Rural Workers of Family Agriculture of Milton Brandão, through the advice of the Culinary Workshop;
? Implementation of a bed for growing cassava seeds and a 1-hectare organic farm ? Installation in the flour mill area for collective use of a bed for growing cassava seed/manaiba, a water point will be placed to carry out irrigation weekly. Farmers place their seed reserves to be cultivated during the dry period, so that at least twelve (12) farmers with cassava seed reserves in the Settlement. The field will be for collective use, and carnauba straw (bagana) will be used to make mulch;
? Implementation of a community kitchen ? The kitchen will have an area of 12.4m² and a deposit to store the flour during the production period. The kitchen space will mainly benefit women and youth who use it throughout the year to carry out culinary activities such as peta and cake production. The construction will be carried out by an experienced bricklayer in the field of civil construction, with the voluntary help of the people who would benefit;
? Workshop for making garbage collectors for the community, making it easier for the truck to collect it ? construction of a container for families to place their garbage and seek, together with the municipal Public Power, the guarantee of weekly garbage collection in the Settlement, preventing the garbage reaches the capybara river.
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SGP Country office contact
Ms. Jessica Pedreira
Phone:
55-61-3327-8085
Fax:
55-61-3327-8085
Email:
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Brasília, Distrito Federal, 70.750-515
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