{"id":16970,"date":"2024-02-22T23:01:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T07:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gnrc.net\/?p=16970"},"modified":"2024-02-22T23:01:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T07:01:39","slug":"empowering-children-with-skills-that-promote-sustainability-and-a-green-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gnrc.net\/?p=16970","title":{"rendered":"Empowering Children with Skills that Promote Sustainability and a Green Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Agriculture has for the longest time been the backbone of Africa\u2019s economy, employing millions of Africans, approximately 43.8%<\/a> of the population, as of 2020. Although this is so, many are reluctant to pursue agriculture due to several reasons, among them<\/a> non-competitive salaries, the physical nature of agriculture, and lack of information about the industry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Mauritius, agriculture contributes to approximately 3.5% of the economy\u2019s gross domestic product (GDP), with a lot of its agricultural products being imported. To teach young children the importance of agriculture and the knowledge, abilities, values, and attitudes needed to live in, develop, and support a sustainable and resource-efficient society, Mkids<\/a> Organization, a member of the GNRC, began an initiative to teach children the basics of traditional farming on rooftops. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u2018traditional farming on rooftops\u2019 initiative is tailored for residents living in urban areas where most of the Mkids beneficiaries reside\u2014farming is an alien <\/em>concept to those living in these areas. The initiative imparts children with knowledge on traditional farming techniques<\/a>, to foster a sense of connection to nature, and appreciation of where food comes from. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to teaching children about traditional farming techniques, Mkids further intends to equip then with knowledge and skills on aquaponics<\/a> (where fish and plants are cultivated together in a constructed, recirculating ecosystem utilizing natural bacterial cycles to convert fish waste to plant nutrition). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project will benefit children with knowledge on environmentally friendly and sustainable forms of farming and include them as stakeholders in making a change in the society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur projects are tailored to foster a holistic understanding of agriculture and environmental stewardship and influence people to make informed decisions that\u00a0positively impact their communities and the environment.\u201d – <\/em>Mkids<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Agriculture has for the longest time been the backbone of Africa\u2019s economy, employing millions of Africans, approximately 43.8% of the population, as of 2020. Although this is so, many are reluctant to pursue agriculture due to several reasons, among them non-competitive salaries, the physical nature of agriculture, and lack of information about the industry.  In Mauritius, agriculture contributes to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":16972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnrc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnrc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnrc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnrc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnrc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gnrc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16973,"href":"https:\/\/gnrc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16970\/revisions\/16973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnrc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnrc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnrc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnrc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}