Alessandra Giabbani's Blog – March 2010 Archive (8)

I imagine myself in some peaceful place in the world, sharing my meal with friends. I imagine a place with big trees and hearing the sound of the sea. The meal would be delicious, with perhaps some kind of meat, plenty of vegetables, aromatic plants, different breads, a good wine and lots of fruits.

I would like to imagine that on march 2020 more people in the world, will be working for food security for everybody, or at least for much more people than today. I imagine a better world with… Continue

I work with an organization that helps families to build their own home garden. There are new tips about food secutity I've just learn and that I will include in my work. To know more: http://www.inta.gov.ar/extension/prohuerta

I'd like to share wth you what this organization is doing in India, I find it challenging: http://www.villgro.org

This is a real challenge to me.

To begin with, I live in a country in which agriculture is one of the basis of economy. Agriculture goods, wether raw or processed, still earn over half of Argentina´s foreign exchange remaining an indispensable pillar of the country social progress and economic prosperity. In the other side, the urban poverty rate is 20%.

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The World Bank have 7 active programmes on agriculture in this moment.



So, just to understand what is going on, I will… Continue

I like to tell you about spark: a man: Alfredo Olivera, his team: patients of a psychiatric public hospital and his project: a radio station.



While Alfredo was studying psychology at Buenos Aires Health University (Argentina, Southamerica) he realized that mental illness was much more a social problem than a medical one. He thought that a radio station could be the key to remove physical limits as hospitals wars, and social prejudice about crazy people.



He started with a… Continue

In 2020 when Alchemy calls me to aid in Japan's food crisis I hope we’ll be proactively working with communities transforming the world and be ready to answer him in a responsible way. All of

this, if we don’t work in 10 years left, to enhance food security!…

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I live in a poor country and I have heroes all arround me! in the shadows, that think and work for a better social world. It seems I have to choose, so I choose Ashoka's Fellow Beatriz Pellizari for thinking different, being creative and being a visionary woman.

You can see Beatriz profile here:…

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Think like a child helps me to be a social innovator, because it requires new ways of thinking, different perspectives to create what doesn’t exist yet, to achieve a vision.