Thanks for your comments and your questions. Your site looks very interesting. Since your questions are directed to EMG, I’ve asked Noel to get in touch with you directly, but feel free to continue any dialogue here as well as I’m sure there are others with similar questions. We’ll also be posting updates on this project, and the work of Heiveld and Wupperthal on our site as well. Thanks again and good luck with your work.

Phyllis

Thanks for your comments on the blog: I visited your site and would like to keep in touch (and I will send you an e mail to respond to your questions). The work that you are doing has a very good fit with what the farmers are doing, and this is a good space to link up. Thanks for your interest!!!

Noel Oettle

e mail dryland@global.co.za

we are very interested to learn how does EMG continue to work with the Heiveld and Wupperthal co-operatives to increase the farmers’ resilience to respond to climate change.

In particular we are keen to learn on how are you doing this, what are the problems you are encountering and how are you going about them.

Extracting some key words from the text could be useful and we welcome you to join our on line discussion dealing with agrobiodiversity and climate change
http://grou.ps/par_cc/home

- Participatory Action Research project, they are working with the farmers to recapture the indigenous strategies of natural resource management used by their ancestors – could you polease let us know about this?

- monitoring the rooibos production in order to develop future climate change mitigation strategies,

- conservation and promotion of agricultural biodiversity, and soil and water conservation.

- control soil erosion,

- promote the conservation of water and enhance biodiversity.

- methods to enhance soil carbon and to reduce soil degradation by using native plant materials to serve as windbreaks.

Thanks!
Paul

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Paul Bordoni
Assistant Scientist
Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research and
Global Facilitation Unit for Underutilized Species
Via dei Tre Denari 472/a
00057 MACCARESE (Fiumicino)
Rome, Italy
e-mail: p.bordoni@cgiar.org
skype: paulbordoni
tel: +39 06 6118-302
fax: +39 06 61979661
GFU – http://www.underutilized-species.org
PAR – http://www.agrobiodiversityplatform.org/climate_change/blog
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