Imagine Rural Development Initiative

Waters Edge and Moringa

Steven Putter — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 14:47:31 +0000

Just landed on Waters Edge, a 18 000 hectare game farm where we will be clearing the old airstrip to plant Moringa, tomorrow morning early we will start, hopefully to be done by the beginning of December, we are in the process of buying all the equipment and should have 16 000 000 trees in [...] Read more »

Urban Sustainable Development Getting Go Ahead

Steven Putter — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:25:06 +0000

IRDI Urban training Center We have been allocated the land for the Urban Training center, for an update the project plan is included here Business & feasibility overview Aquaponics BY STEVEN PUTTER ON AUGUST 2, 2012 Business and feasibility overview for Zambia-based Sub-Saharan Africa development model Maximum return on investment, capitalizing on an Aquaponic [...] Read more »

Africa Silence before the Storm

Steven Putter — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:47:22 +0000

It was a busy, busy month with lots going on on all fronts. Processing Moringa on small scale is one thing, making ready for tons at a time something else. Milling Moringa leaves to the finest powder comes with its own set of problems, apart from being fine grained, Moringa is incredibly light and most [...] Read more »

Last update from our UK team in Malawi

Steven Putter — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 19:14:35 +0000

Monday, September 3, 2012 [8:14:38 PM] Simon Simfukwe: hi steve Mathias here [8:15:28 PM] Steven Putter: hi sunshine [8:17:01 PM] Simon Simfukwe: cool would you love speak to Timmy before he sleeps about what l told you and peharps say bye [8:17:32 PM] Steven Putter: yes please, what do you mean before he sleeps it [...] Read more »

Climate Change Moringa & Development

Steven Putter — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 09:40:01 +0000

And it is almost here, as soon as that “low” stays above 17 degrees Celsius we will start planting, if you plant Moringa at temperatures below that the seeds will go dormant and just rot, not a good thing if the target for the first round of planting is close to 1 500 000 trees. We are basically sitting on the edge [...] Read more »

So Far…

ukstudents — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:12:18 +0000

Project Development in Africa

Steven Putter — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 09:01:42 +0000

People that follow IRDI and DigIT will be used to the words emergence and transition by now and we will be hearing much more about it as the project unfolds. The current situation in the project is a knowable, the Meta Vision or big picture is a knowable as well, it is the path from [...] Read more »

creating independent change agents

Steven Putter — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 18:48:02 +0000

What happens in communities without you, what is being expressed by the community developers you work with will tell you if you have a lasting impact, if you as a development organization has to drive every action you have failed already. We just love this, cant wait to see what they are cooking up, Go Women [...] Read more »

Business & feasibility overview Aquaponics

Steven Putter — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:24:55 +0000

Business and feasibility overview for Zambia-based Sub-Saharan Africa development model Maximum return on investment, capitalizing on an Aquaponic and business training service, with Zambia acting as training host for the multilateral Ecological Sustainable Economic Development of all people of Africa, as well as internationally. Facility The facility will cater for Aquaponic models for urban, semi-urban [...] Read more »

If they had a voice

Steven Putter — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 10:39:52 +0000

We form our picture of the world by the very data that stream through the senses and today more than ever we rely on social networks to help us make not only make sense of the world but also interact with it, silently forming the opinion inside of us about what we will eventually express [...] Read more »