The Humanitarian Water and Food Award announced the 2010 winner last night, at its first ever award event held at LIFE, Faculty of Life Sciences, Copenhagen.
The prize, 10,000 Euros and a copy of the Award Statuette, was handed over to Rhamis Kent, representing The Permaculture Research Institute (PRI) for their initiative “Greening the Desert“.
Representing the Selection Committee, Professor Alfred Opubor, commented that “the initiative brings us hope. With approaches that are easy to carry out, and replicable, PRI have clearly demonstrated we can produce food where it is needed in a sustainable way”.
Second prize went to Solvatten AB, for their initiative “The Solvatten solar safe water system“. Profesor Alfred commented that “Solvatten shows us how we can use the power of sunlight, which is everywhere, to live in a sustainable way”.
In third place came the Sadhana Forest organisation for their initiative “Sadhana Forest“. ”Great ideas,” said Professor Alfred, “attract people. And today, looking at Sadhana Forest we see that volunteerism is not dead, but very much alive”.
“Great ideas have the power to engage us - to volunteer to help make the change towards sustainability.”
We are deeply greatful to the Faculty of Life Sciences, and Professor
Arne Astrup Department of Human Nutrition/Prevention and Treatment of Obesity and Appetite, Claes Mayer, Affiliated professor & gastronomic entrepreneur.
And to our main sponsor Bayer CropScience for their generous support.
Greetings to all out there ind this organisation, we are happy everytime we find others there are working for development in Africa. If you know of someone who can help with funding we will be very happy to hear from you.
By: Dr. Leif Laursen on July 2, 2011
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