{"id":26103,"date":"2020-04-03T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/story\/corona-in-tansania-hygieneschulungen-in-bio-landbau-kursen\/"},"modified":"2022-10-24T14:56:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T12:56:11","slug":"corona-in-tanzania-training-in-hygiene-instead-of-organic-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/story\/corona-in-tanzania-training-in-hygiene-instead-of-organic-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Corona in Tanzania: Training in hygiene included in organic agriculture courses"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Alexander Wostry leitet gemeinsam mit seiner Frau Janet Maro Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania. In agrar\u00f6kologischen Schulungen lernen B\u00e4uerinnen und Bauern, wie sie ihr Land nachhaltig bewirtschaften k\u00f6nnen.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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By the time of my video call with Alexander Wostry (watch video at the end of this article), head of our\u00a0partner organisation Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania<\/a> (SAT), 13 Coronavirus cases had already been verified in Tanzania. It is already clear that public life in Tanzania must be scaled back to prevent the rapid spread of the virus. SAT works in the Morogoro region, where about three quarters of the population depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. In its training centre, SAT normally shows hundreds of farmers how they can grow their food without using chemical synthetic pesticides by using agroecological methods. But meeting as a group is no longer allowed in Tanzania. \u00a0<\/p>


Alexander, are the training courses in organic farming methods for smallholders now cancelled?\u00a0<\/h2>

We are taking the situation seriously and have adapted our training plan to allow us to inform the farmers about the Coronavirus. We have linked it directly to hygiene training. We have demonstrated how farmers can wash their hands properly and installed a \u201cTipTap\u201d, a canister suspended from two wooden sticks where they can wash their hands with the help of a wooden pedal (see video min.1.19). We are not allowed to meet with the farmers as a group anymore, though.\u00a0
As a result, we are now giving guidance for crop cultivation via telephone or WhatsApp. We have equipped some farmers with smartphones to communicate with them. The rainy season is just beginning in Tanzania, so we cannot simply postpone the start of the farming season. \u00a0
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What other measures have you been able to take?\u00a0
This week, we were able to rapidly deliver 7,000 trees to farming families in the villages. That makes five or six villages that can now plant trees to improve the soil, prevent erosion or provide the village with cattle feed. \u00a0
We are now providing advice, marketing and other activities as best as we can to improve food security during the crisis. Our slogan is: We are part of the food system. We cannot just stop working now. We are needed now more than ever.<\/p>

Could markets close, as has happened in Switzerland?\u00a0<\/h2>

We hope not. That would be disastrous, because in Tanzania an estimated 30 per cent of the population cannot afford to stock up on supplies. Such measures would therefore have devastating consequences. The task now is to show alternative possibilities. For example, we offer a handwashing station in our organic food store, put the purchases together ourselves and offer cashless payment by telephone.\u00a0<\/p>


How are you yourselves adjusting to the situation? \u00a0<\/h2>

We have had several meetings and created a Coronavirus committee that is working on specific plans. We are also waiting for and adapting to the guidelines issued by the government.\u00a0
We have ensured that everyone in the projects is active, either in the office or in the field. We will continue to conduct field visits, but only with individuals rather than groups.
We can also continue the participatory guarantee system. This system provides tools that we use to enable farmers to certify themselves under the \u201cEast African Organic Products Standard\u201d.\u00a0
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Was plant ihr f\u00fcr die nahe Zukunft?<\/h2>\n

Wir hoffen, dass es nach dem 10. April wieder M\u00f6glichkeiten gibt, die Trainings durchzuf\u00fchren. Ansonsten m\u00fcssen wir uns vermehrt mit der Kommunikationstechnologie auseinandersetzen. H\u00e4ufig ist die Internetverbindung jedoch nicht so gut, was den Technologieeinsatz erschwert.<\/p>\n

Abgesehen davon starten wir Umfragen bei den Bauern via Telefon, um zu er\u00f6rtern, wo und in welcher Form Hilfe ben\u00f6tigt wird.<\/p>\n

Hast du die Hoffnung, dass diese Krise auch einen positiven Einfluss haben kann?<\/h2>\n

Sie l\u00e4sst uns global zusammenwachsen und erkennen, dass es nur gemeinsam geht auf dieser Welt. Ich glaube, dass das Coronavirus ein wichtiger Weckruf ist. Wenn wir n\u00e4mlich jetzt bez\u00fcglich des Klimawandels nichts machen, werden wir wahrscheinlich in den n\u00e4chsten 10 bis 20 Jahren in eine noch gr\u00f6ssere Krise schlittern. Insofern ist das jetzt ein wichtiges Ereignis, das uns dazu zwingt, \u00fcber unseren bisherigen Lebensstil nachzudenken.<\/p>\n

Ich glaube, dass diese ganze Geschichte, das Auseinandersetzen mit Hygiene, Sicherheit und so weiter im Zusammenhang mit dem Coronavirus der biologischen Landwirtschaft einen Aufschwung verleihen wird. Erstens, weil sie Ern\u00e4hrungssicherheit garantiert, und zweitens, weil die Umstellung auf Bio auch eine gute M\u00f6glichkeit ist, Arbeit zu beschaffen. So glaube ich, dass wir mit der Krise ein neues System aufbauen k\u00f6nnen. Wir m\u00fcssen uns jetzt unserer W\u00fcnsche und Ziele bewusst werden, um diese vor Augen zu haben, sobald wir die Krise hinter uns gelassen haben.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Tanzania is also increasingly restricting public life, which is why our partner organisation SAT is no longer able to run its organic farming courses as usual. And all this at the start of the farming season \u2013 but digital channels and creativity are helping. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4333,"template":"","exclude-from-search":[],"newsletter":[],"region":[228],"projektthema":[],"themen":[248],"class_list":["post-26103","story","type-story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","region-sub-saharan-africa","themen-agriculture-en"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 01:52:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"newsletter","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story\/26103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/story"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story\/26103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"exclude-from-search","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exclude-from-search?post=26103"},{"taxonomy":"newsletter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter?post=26103"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=26103"},{"taxonomy":"projektthema","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projektthema?post=26103"},{"taxonomy":"themen","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biovision.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/themen?post=26103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}