From Starvation to Sustainability
How do you create a healthy, thriving village in a war-torn region where starving people were once reduced to eating snakes and rats? TED Senior Fellow Alexander Petroff proved self-sustaining agricultural practices can create abundance, and be a foundation on which to build a more complex economy. His work in the Ruzizi Valley of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has created a growing community of workers and their families who now have an ample diet, of much better quality than the average American’s. Click here to read Congo Farm Project - From Starvation to Sustainability, Alexander’s moving account of introducing organic agriculture techniques, composting, thatching, and other practices that are allowing a refugee community to sustain itself.
