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Solving food wastage for lunch

We have discovered the cheapest, and most cost effective lunch in Blantyre. We are always left with leftovers after dinner, and although we are in a country where hunger is a pervasive condition, we generally throw them out. This is a huge waste of resources. The issue is that no one wants to eat beans an rice for dinner, and then have it cold for lunch as well. However, there is a way around this. We sometimes have the magical dinner combo: rice, beans, peas and carrots. This is...

by Nikita Ramachandran
Jul 26, 2018

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Nikita Ramachandran

Jul 26, 2018

Waste not, want not

Whilst driving and walking around Blantyre and surrounding regions in Malawi, it is easy to see that littering is a massive issue. This may be due to an inadequate education revolving around waste issues as it is often seen that people throw rubbish out of car windows or simply drop it on the ground as they walk by. Coming from South Australia, recycling is a huge part of daily life, the council provided recycling bin is larger than the landfill bin. Another side to recycling in South...

by Paige Moult
Feb 23, 2018

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Paige Moult

Feb 23, 2018

Proposed PROJECT

Skipping the Middle Man

In Week 2 Belinda, a fellow trekker, and I caught a minibus towards Bila Levu with the intention of meeting a farmer named Umesh Ram ,who had been sold a consultancy report a year earlier to discuss the issues that had caused him to not implement it, as well as to gather vital data for the Field Dev team who had been working on coming up with an ideal companion cropping blueprint to trial at the Sigatoka and Renandi plots. Although we did not meet up with Umesh we made some interesting...

by Felix Zerbib (Admin)
Feb 5, 2018

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Felix Zerbib (Admin)

Feb 5, 2018

Gender Empowerment Through Financial Advisory Services - The Farm Ed of Finance?

My idea is a project that seeks to develop UN Sustainable Development Goal Number 5: Gender Equality. I currently work for an entrepreneurial company called Enactus in which I lead my own sustainability project related to youth education regarding sustainability and Indigenous culture. Within Enactus, there is another gender equality based project known as the 'Women's Creative Hub', which seeks to empower women in refugee and multicultural communities across Sydney. The project works...

by James Balzer
Jan 26, 2018

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James Balzer

Jan 26, 2018

Proposal (Operational/Other)

[Proposal: Operational/Other]: FarmEd All Countries - Analysing Qualitative Data - February 2018

I believe data is one of the most important tools we have, as an entrepreneurial organisation. By definition, we operate in an area of uncertainty. By definition, (good) data provides certainty. It is a phenomenally powerful tool in aiding our decision making, and it's excellent to see a FarmEd wide push toward collecting more data. Our next step is to ask ourselves why we are collecting this data, and then let that inform how we collect it - beginning with the end in mind....

by
Gabriel Raubenheimer

Jan 25, 2018

Proposal (Operational/Other)

[Proposal: Operational/Other]: FarmEd All Countries - Unified Database Structure - January 2018

As our spreadsheets grow fatter and fatter, the FarmEd Fiji team is hard at work building databases to supplement/replace them. This is important because it allows for much greater integration with other programs (crucially, the FarmEd app). From Cambodia, here are some important ideas about that design, following on from a conversation between the two countries, with the aim of expanding that discussion and opening it up to you beautiful people. International Focus Having a...

by
Gabriel Raubenheimer

Jan 16, 2018

No Such Thing as Language Barriers

Next semester is my final semester, after graduation I may work in Australia. I really want to test myself by speaking English to see whether I’m good enough to work with other people. It is important to communicate your information and ideas to other people as an engineer. If people receive the wrong information from you, a horrible incident may occur, with time and money wasted. Also, I want to gain some professional experience for my career. English is my second language, I know...

by Junwei Huang
Dec 22, 2017

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Junwei Huang

Dec 22, 2017

Increasing Group Productivity... One Gag at a Time

Getting your team dynamics right is a vital part of a productive workplace. Not every day is going to go smoothly and you’re going to hit plenty of rough patches. There will be days where everybody is low on energy. Maybe there was a disagreement yesterday and there’s some tension in the group. Raising team morale consistently is the perfect cure. One of my own personal creations is the Gag List. Born from a long overnight stopover at Darwin Airport, the Gag List is a record of...

by Ben Disher
Dec 20, 2017

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Ben Disher

Dec 20, 2017

Communication. Communication. Communication.

Communication is one of the mantra’s we try to live by, and yet whilst within teams there is great communication, at times there is a distinct lack of it between teams on bigger projects like FarmEd, between projects, and between countries. As the Fiji FarmEd Market Analysis TL, I not only need to be completely across what I am doing, but also what Proof of Concept and Field Development are doing. This also extends to knowing major developments, ideas and strategies that FarmEd teams in...

by Seth Coetzee
Dec 12, 2017

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Seth Coetzee

Dec 12, 2017

(Dis)Connecting with customers between project months

One difficulty inevitably faced by PE Ventures at one point or another in their life-span is the time between project months. The lack of presence by projects from March-June and August-November can present a problem for established contacts to raise any issues or present new opportunities to PE. Trying to establish relationships with new customers is also inhibited by the breaks as there may have been a few promising meetings had or communications made yet that good work cannot continue...

by Alexander Teicher
Dec 1, 2017

by
Alexander Teicher

Dec 1, 2017

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