Why it's Vital to Support Smallholder Farmers. Empowering the Weakest End of the Agricultural Chain
Mazi Farm Blog
by Solene Tsitos
4y ago
Solene, a member of the Mazi Team also works for Yunus Social Business (YSB). Their Philanthropic Venture Funds finance and support social businesses in developing economies, whilst their Corporate Initiatives guide multinationals to apply their core competencies to some of the greatest human challenges. She writes a piece on their blog, about the challenges faced by smallholder farmers and how they should be empowered rather than exploited by intermediaries, looking at examples from across YSB’s work. With increasing pressure on natural resources due to climate change and population growth ..read more
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Why Making Agroforestry Mains-tree-m is the Best Way to Fight Climate Change 
Mazi Farm Blog
by Natasha Foote
5y ago
Thanks to Greta Thunberg and her global youth climate movement, it seems everywhere you look these days people are talking about climate change - and about time too!   As people are slowly starting to sit up and pay attention to what is arguably the most pressing issue of our time, our best minds have been put hard to work engineering climate solutions. From designing ways to capture and store carbon deep underground, to pumping our skies full of sulphur, most of these proposed solutions are at best costly, and at worst incredibly environmentally damaging ..read more
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Dishing the Dirt on the Living Agriculture Meet | Arc2020
Mazi Farm Blog
by Solene Tsitos
5y ago
Source: Arc2020Our Mazi farmer, Natasha Foote, joined the first International Meeting For Living Agriculture in Paris. It aims to forward agroecological transition by facilitating exchanges between people working in this field in diverse ways, in different areas and on all sorts of scales. Here is what she took back to the farm.Living and working on a farm like Mazi, it’s easy sometimes to feel a bit isolated. As beautiful as it is, as passionate as you are about what you’re doing, being a pioneer can be an isolating experience.  You have to face the challenges of innovative systems like syntr ..read more
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Letter from the Farm | Spring Update from Greece’s Mazi Farm | Arc2020
Mazi Farm Blog
by Solene Tsitos
5y ago
Source: Arc2020 Hard to believe that not so long ago we were working on this farm in shorts! Definitely not the weather you’d usually associate with Greece. The last couple of months have brought a cold snap to our island. People rarely think of the Mediterranean winter, but our farm has been unrecognisable as for the first time we have seen our land covered in snow! Who would’ve thought the closest we’d get to a white Christmas would be in Greece!As well as making th ..read more
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Letter From The Farm | Mimicking Natural Processes in Greece | Arc2020
Mazi Farm Blog
by Solene Tsitos
5y ago
Source: Arc2020 Our interlines teaming with life after the rains have fallen. The mix of green manures are working hard to fix nitrogen in the soils, put down roots to decompact the soil and help prevent erosion on our sloped hillside farm. We are back in Greece on Mazi Farm with Natasha Foote who talks us through the thinking behind the farm design. From the selection of crop varieties to the layout of the farm, it all comes down to observing nature and mimicking nat ..read more
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Letter From The Farm | Greece’s Mazi Farm Arc 2020
Mazi Farm Blog
by Solene Tsitos
5y ago
Source: Arc2020If I started to tell you about the time that an Englishwoman, a Welshman and a Frenchman all got together to start a farm in Greece, you’d be forgiven if you thought it was the start of a joke. But in fact, that’s exactly what happened on a farm on the little known Greek island of Euboea almost exactly a year ago today where, if you come up the hillside on the outskirts of a sleepy village called Styra, you’ll find an unlikely group of people trying to farm in an even more unlikely place. Dimitri Tsitos (Proj ..read more
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