NOBEL PRIZE 2010, ECOLOGY ..... IS FOR A MEXICAN
Few know it, but there is a prize like "Nobel" Ecology. This year we Jesús León Santos won, 42, a Mexican Indian peasant who has been doing in the past 25 years, an exceptional work of reforestation in the region of Oaxaca, Mexico. The name of the award is "Goldman Environmental Prize ( www.goldmanprize.org / theprize / about_espanol ). It was created in 1990 by two generous philanthropists and activists cívicosEstadounidenses Richard N. Goldman and his wife, Rhoda H. Goldman.Consta a budget of $ 150,000 ($ 2,154,000 MN) and cadaaño delivery in April, in the city of San Francisco, California (UnitedStates). So far it has been awarded to environmental advocates in 72 countries. In 1991, I won the African Wangari Maathai, who later won the PremioNobel of Peace in 2004. Jesus Leon Santos have given it because when I was 18, decidióCambiar the landscape where he lived in the Mixteca Alta, the "land of the sun." It was like a lunar landscape, barren and dusty fields devoid of trees, without water fruitless. GrandesDistancias had to go to fetch water and firewood. Almost all young people emigrated paraNunca back, fleeing like the wilderness and hard life. With other villagers of the place, Jesus Leon, targeting the greening fields. And decided to use a nickel pre-Columbian farming techniques taught about Guatemalan Indians to convert arid land crop and tree Enzon
How to carry out the project? Indígenatambién reviving a forgotten tool: The tequio, unpaid community work. AUnas met 400 families in 12 municipalities, established the Centre for Development of the Mixteca IntegralCampesino (CEDICAM), and together with económicoslimitadísimos resources were launched in the great battle against the main culprit for the deteriorating: the Mixteca region erosión.En that there are more 50,000 hectares they have lost unosCinco meters of land since the sixteenth century. DeCabras intensive farming, overgrazing and industrial lime production establecióLa Colonia area deteriorated. The use of the iron plow and talaIntensiva of trees for construction of the imposing templosDominicos definitely contributed to the desertificación.Jesús Leon and his friends drove a reforestation program. A peak yPala-trenches dug ditches to retain water in low rainfall, planting trees in small nurseries, compost and planted barrerasVivas brought to prevent the escape of this favored land fértil.Todo aquifer recharge. Then, in a titanic effort, planted about four million trees of native species, acclimated to heat and sober in the absorption of agua.Después set the goal to achieve, for yCampesinas indigenous communities, food sovereignty. Developed a system of sustainable agriculture and organic dePesticidas unused, thanks to the rescue and conservation of native seeds delmaíz, cereal originating in this particular variety región.Sembrando very typical of the area, the bowl, which ince the most resistant to drought. Planted between February and March, which is where the driest time of year, conMuy little moisture in the soil, but when the rains come crecerápidamente. After a quarter century, the miracle has producido.Hoy the Mixteca Alta is restored. He's back to green. SurgidoManantiales have more water. There are trees and foods. And people already emigra.Actualmente not, Jesus Leon and his friends fight against GMOs, ySiembran about 200,000 trees a year .. Each day push back the line of desertificación.Con timber trees have been recovered artesanalQue activity was disappearing: the preparation in family workshops of wood yugosDe corriente.Además utensils have been buried at strategic locations ferrocement tanks, over 10,000 liters of capacity, which also collect water from the irrigation of greenhouses lluviaPara family orgánicos.El example of Jesus Leon is now imitated by several neighboring communities have also created and organized community nurseries temporalmenteplantaciones masivas.En a world where news, are often negative and depressing, this exemplary record has gone unnoticed. Circula this news MEXICO FOR ALL YOU HEAR!! THE NEWS REPORTED THAT SHOULD NOT
Few know it, but there is a prize like "Nobel" Ecology. This year we Jesús León Santos won, 42, a Mexican Indian peasant who has been doing in the past 25 years, an exceptional work of reforestation in the region of Oaxaca, Mexico. The name of the award is "Goldman Environmental Prize ( www.goldmanprize.org / theprize / about_espanol ). It was created in 1990 by two generous philanthropists and activists cívicosEstadounidenses Richard N. Goldman and his wife, Rhoda H. Goldman.Consta a budget of $ 150,000 ($ 2,154,000 MN) and cadaaño delivery in April, in the city of San Francisco, California (UnitedStates). So far it has been awarded to environmental advocates in 72 countries. In 1991, I won the African Wangari Maathai, who later won the PremioNobel of Peace in 2004. Jesus Leon Santos have given it because when I was 18, decidióCambiar the landscape where he lived in the Mixteca Alta, the "land of the sun." It was like a lunar landscape, barren and dusty fields devoid of trees, without water fruitless. GrandesDistancias had to go to fetch water and firewood. Almost all young people emigrated paraNunca back, fleeing like the wilderness and hard life. With other villagers of the place, Jesus Leon, targeting the greening fields. And decided to use a nickel pre-Columbian farming techniques taught about Guatemalan Indians to convert arid land crop and tree Enzon
How to carry out the project? Indígenatambién reviving a forgotten tool: The tequio, unpaid community work. AUnas met 400 families in 12 municipalities, established the Centre for Development of the Mixteca IntegralCampesino (CEDICAM), and together with económicoslimitadísimos resources were launched in the great battle against the main culprit for the deteriorating: the Mixteca region erosión.En that there are more 50,000 hectares they have lost unosCinco meters of land since the sixteenth century. DeCabras intensive farming, overgrazing and industrial lime production establecióLa Colonia area deteriorated. The use of the iron plow and talaIntensiva of trees for construction of the imposing templosDominicos definitely contributed to the desertificación.Jesús Leon and his friends drove a reforestation program. A peak yPala-trenches dug ditches to retain water in low rainfall, planting trees in small nurseries, compost and planted barrerasVivas brought to prevent the escape of this favored land fértil.Todo aquifer recharge. Then, in a titanic effort, planted about four million trees of native species, acclimated to heat and sober in the absorption of agua.Después set the goal to achieve, for yCampesinas indigenous communities, food sovereignty. Developed a system of sustainable agriculture and organic dePesticidas unused, thanks to the rescue and conservation of native seeds delmaíz, cereal originating in this particular variety región.Sembrando very typical of the area, the bowl, which ince the most resistant to drought. Planted between February and March, which is where the driest time of year, conMuy little moisture in the soil, but when the rains come crecerápidamente. After a quarter century, the miracle has producido.Hoy the Mixteca Alta is restored. He's back to green. SurgidoManantiales have more water. There are trees and foods. And people already emigra.Actualmente not, Jesus Leon and his friends fight against GMOs, ySiembran about 200,000 trees a year .. Each day push back the line of desertificación.Con timber trees have been recovered artesanalQue activity was disappearing: the preparation in family workshops of wood yugosDe corriente.Además utensils have been buried at strategic locations ferrocement tanks, over 10,000 liters of capacity, which also collect water from the irrigation of greenhouses lluviaPara family orgánicos.El example of Jesus Leon is now imitated by several neighboring communities have also created and organized community nurseries temporalmenteplantaciones masivas.En a world where news, are often negative and depressing, this exemplary record has gone unnoticed. Circula this news MEXICO FOR ALL YOU HEAR!! THE NEWS REPORTED THAT SHOULD NOT
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