Community Interaction made easy
Stay up-to-date with best practices in Sustainable Agricuture and environmental care. Chakula Bora Network is a community for farmers developed by farmers.
WHAT WE OFFER
We are looking to bring farmers together to discuss their issues regarding best practices around farming. As farmers, the challenges we face are finite and universal. You may have encountered my challenge and overcame and vice versa. Let's share knowledge and everbody wins.
Best Practices
We celebrate best practices around farming bringing a consciousness about our planet to the forefront.
Team Work
Sharing ideas makes us all come out better. We are building with this consciousness.
Collaboration
We aim to bring together people of like minds for effective collaboration.
Knowledge Base
We want to save the best ideas and publish them, so it is freely available to farmers for years to come.
WHO WE ARE
We are a community committed to Healthy Food, from farm to fork for all Africans. Healthy food is nature created. Healthy Food strengthens the human immune system and is the first line of attack against disease. We focus on Africa because the continent is in a battle for its food sovereignty. It is inconceivable that the continent with the most arable land cannot feed itself. Solutions abound to address Africa's food security challenges but most come from those with an agenda of dependency economics and resource extraction. Nature has already perfectly provided what is needed to feed the world's expanding population. Food security comes with a responsibility to align with its principles and be stewards of our environment.
The Chakula Bora community includes: farmers, agricultural students, agricultural extensionists, researchers, economists, ecologists, pastoralists, value addition players, policy influencers, and concerned global citizens.
Chakula Bora
The Chakula Bora Digital Network is an integrated learning management system designed to grow a knowledge ecosystem through a collaborative pedagogical model and with participatory learning. The platform combines professional and academic content with medium and small-holder farmer's local, experiential knowledge in multiple formats and languages.
The network allows for peer-to-peer interaction through knowledge sharing engagements, making the best use of technology such as smartphones and tablets to disseminate information. An SMS technology interface invites collaboration with the simplest of telecom devices. Content is tailored to each user segment.
The digital network intends to be a single source for indigenous knowledge, a central repository for learning, containing publications, instructional videos, guidance notes on best practices, and internet forums
Triple P
We are grounded in the 3Ps: Planet + People = Productivity. We anticipate our collaborations with you will give rise to innovations, actions, resources, and policies which affirm the principles of food sovereignty, agroecological balance, restored biodiversity and strengthened economies for the world's most impoverished of communities, both rural and urban.
Goals of the Network
The goals of the Chakula Bora Network are
To lead innovation on sustainable, regenerative food systems in a time of climate change and residual ecological deficits
To build the capacity of farmers, entrepreneurs, and institutions through collaborative and synergistic alliances
To positively and comprehensively impact the local community eco-system towards resilience in food sovereignty, public health, nutrition, and biodiversity
To facilitate access and bridge gaps in finance for micro, small, and medium-size businesses
To facilitate access to sustainable markets for the farmers' produce
Principles of Open Source
Becoming a member in the Network is free of charge. We embrace the principles of Open Source where:
Transparency. Whether we're developing software or solving a business problem, we all have access to the information and materials necessary for doing our best work. And when these materials are accessible, we can build upon each other's ideas and discoveries. We can make more effective decisions and understand how decisions affect us.
Collaboration. When we're free to participate, we can enhance each other's work in unanticipated ways. When we can modify what others have shared, we unlock new possibilities. By initiating new projects together, we can solve problems that no one can solve alone. And when we implement open standards, we enable others to contribute in the future.
Release early and often. Rapid prototypes can lead to rapid discoveries. An iterative approach leads to better solutions faster. When you're free to experiment, you can look at problems in new ways and seek answers in new places. You can learn by doing.
Inclusive meritocracy. Good ideas can come from anywhere, and the best ideas should win. Only by including diverse perspectives in our conversations can we be certain we've identified the best ideas, and decision-makers continually seek those perspectives. We may not operate by consensus, but successful work determines which projects gather support and effort from the community.
Community. Communities form when different people unite around a common purpose. Shared values guide decision making, and community goals supersede individual interests and agendas.