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Brainstorming ideas:
Causes of the food crisis:
- bad governance
- alternate uses for crops
- increased use of certain crops for biofuels
- poor development policies
- global warming
- natural disasters
- drought
- population growth
- increased demand for food and resources
- poor management of resources
- refugee crisis
- migration
- environmental refugees
- increased prices
- trade policies
- decrease in funding for agriculture
- financial speculation
What are the tools that each of our organizations have?
- reach to the people who need help
- lending of animals
- unique approach to lending and training
- implementing sustainable, long term programs
- networking expansion
- advocacy
- critique of world bank response
- humanitarian aid
- response systems
- involvement in war zones
- food distribution
- nutritional support
- water sanitation programs
- refugee community
- training in farming practices
Where are we on the value chain?
- Action Aid:
- Diffusion
- Cross pollination
- Heifer:
- Idea Generation
- Conversion
- Save:
- IRC:
What are our core strategies?
- Action Aid:
- Highlighting problems to the intnl community
- Heifer:
- Finding unique lending strategies to create sustainable agricultural practices
- Save:
- Emergency relief and livelihoods
- IRC:
- Emergency response, economic assistance
What are our markets?
- Heifer:
- Save:
- Conflict/post conflict, women, children, families
- Action Aid:
- Poor countries in Africa, Asia
- IRC:
- Refugees, Conflict/post conflict
What about our structures?
- Heifer
- Adapted details to a traditional model
- Save:
- Large
- Networking with STC alliance
- Field offices
- Traditional
- Action Aid
- Dependant on grants
- transparency/accountability
- Partnership
- Influence policy
- IRC
How do we get our money?
- Heifer:
- Donors
- Foundations
- Individuals
- IRC:
- Save:
- Contracts
- Private Grants
- Sponsorships
- Fundraising
- Action Aid:
Where are the intersections?
Heifer model: Scaling up and adapting
IRC/SAVE: Strengthing the presence in the market
Action Aid: Organizing campaigns
Long term vs Short term
Responding to the immediate crisis/crisis prevention
Regional action: Africa/ Asia
Concentrate on the most affected areas
Better farming techniques-faster, more efficient
Long term goal: A heifer-esque model for high risk areas
Short term relief into a long term solution
Hybrid seeds?
Well researched crop/plant along with livestock program
Potted plans?
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