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when Alchemy calls for the Tokyo food crisis, I will be encouraging small agricultural business owners on how to solve the hunger crisis in Nigeria by designing credit products which will enable them borrow at low rates and spread repayment at evvry harvest season, with insurance cover during bad harvest.
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Comment by Nick Heyming on March 6, 2010 at 7:29am -
Thats really cool. Supporting farmers in purchasing their capital at the beginning of the season is important, so long as they're not taken advantage of.
Some of the farms that I admire here in North America do a system called Community Supported Agriculture or CSAs, where members buy a portion of the seasonal harvest ahead of the season, giving the farmer the capital up front to buy his seeds and sow them.
Then over the course of the season they receive a bundle of vegetables at regular intervals, usually weekly.
The current prevailing system where banks and huge seed and machine companies have undue control over farmers is hopefully going out of style... localized, diverse systems are promising, but inherently harder to scale.
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