Calum James Wright's Blog (23)

In sub Saharan Africa the main challenges facing food security must be; population growth, poverty and a lack of knowledge resulting in undedeveloped agricultural production capabilities. While poverty is a challenge facing South African agriculture it seems that the sharing of agricultural knowledge could help ease such problems. A brilliant initiative which aims to tackle these issues, has been set up in association with "World Vision Africa" who have set in motion the running of school… Continue

The main hero I have chosen to shadow is Hugo van Vuuren from Lebone but this is simply because he has South African origins and I have to pick an individual but in truth my interest is with the Lebone group as a wh***. Hugo is one of the six founders of Lebone who are forerunners in fighting the huge energy problems that Africa faces. The members of Lebone are young innovators and prime examples of people who are willing to put in the hard work needed, to produce a simple solution to a major… Continue

The secret for social innovation which most spoke to me was Paul Polak's tip to "think like a child – children have no limit to their thinking". The words of advice reminded me of Picasso and the quote, “It

took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a

child”. It is quite widely known that through his exploration within the cubist

art movement Picasso aimed to recreate the approaches and mentality which a

child naturally…

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