URBAN FARMING AND FOOD SECURITY

MY NEW KNOWLEDGE. AND WHAT AN EXQUISITE EXPERIENCE OBTAINED

THE MEMBERS OF THE GROUP INSPIRED THINKERS AND THE
FARMER MR MNYOBI KETSO

Well as they say great experience come your way when you are willing to learn, that's what happened with the PPR 2 students we were given a project to work on which is "food security'' probably you are wondering why work with food and farming so boring? well relax that's what most students thought too when this project was introduced. but trust me that all changed within a week when they started reading up about food security, 

let me enlighten you a little bit on what food security is about. food security means that all people at all times have physical and economical access to enough quantity of nutrition's,  safe and proper food. foods that can be produced in a good environment that can continuously provide enough food for a very long time, and food security is not just about the availability of food. it is more about making informed decisions and good choices on the safe food to eat, following a proper vegetarian diet. 

SUSTAINABLE FOOD AND OPENING A DOOR FOR JOBS

So we had farmers that were allocated to us and they are all based in Soweto, it was an honor for us as a group to work with Mr Ketso on the project, he thought us the importance of the green vegetables that greens is not only lettuce and cucumber but a variate of other leaf vegetables that we had no idea about. oh yes it was quite a lesson, because now I don't only have knowledge on safety and healthy food but a lot more on how to create job opportunities through farming. we were granted an opportunity by the farmer to learn how to grow our own vegetables . 

MIXING PR WITH FARMING

No it didn't only end there. Yes we learnt a lot from the project and the most important point is that youth should engage in these kind of projects to create job opportunities and eradicate hunger, then the next dollar question would be what did we give back to the farmer? I am very proud with the effort and hard work we putted on this project, we applied our PR skills to create awareness for the farmer around the community, and build relationships between the farmer, other businesses and with other community centers by compiling an asset register for him. well because its farming it doesn't mean its not a formal business too.

OUR OBJECTIVES FOR THIS PROJECT WERE:

•  To create a documents that shows the farmer his SWOT anaylisis
• We looked into the farmers needs and draw a budget for him so he can buy that are important and he need also did a research on which stores have lower prices to get thing like hose pipes and seeds.
• And we helped with designing a poster for him so that many people can be aware that the is a farmer in the area.