O projeto tem como objetivo promover a inclusão produtiva do Grupo de Mulheres, numa perspectiva de promoção da sustentabilidade ambiental e social na comunidade, e tem como uma das metas a realização de oficinas de capacitação para o grupo de 25 mulheres da Associação Comunitária de Remanescentes de Quilombos de Mulungu de América Dourada, parceira do projeto.

O projeto contempla a realização de 7 oficinas, com 8 horas de duração cada, das quais já foram realizadas a Oficina de Capacitação em Economia Solidária e a Oficina de Capacitação para Elaboração de Plano de Negócios. Para a realização dessa etapa o CAA conta com a parceria e experiência do CESOL (Centro Público de Economia Solidária) do Território de Irecê.

Com as duas capacitações realizadas o grupo de mulheres está apto para desenvolver um plano de negócios baseado na economia solidária que servirá de guia para a gestão da cozinha industrial comunitária que está sendo implementada na comunidade em outra etapa do projeto.

Para o técnico do CAA e coordenador do projeto Carlos Alex, “as oficinas de capacitação são de fundamental importância para a comunidade, que terá a responsabilidade de gerir e garantir o funcionamento da cozinha após a finalização do projeto”.

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Visita realizada em Boa Hora de São Gabriel

Em celebração ao Dia Mundial da Água, 22 de março, o CAA através do projeto Bahia Produtiva vem discutindo a temática  com  famílias beneficiárias. Estão sendo realizadas atividades nas comunidades de Boa Hora, município de São Gabriel, Salobro/Canarana e Cajueiro/Itaguaçu da Bahia.

Esta ação  coaduna com a experiência acumulada do CAA na luta pelo acesso à água nas comunidades rurais do Semiárido, através da implantação de tecnologias sociais para captação de água de chuva para consumo e produção. Nos últimos 20 anos a entidade se  consolidou como referência na execução de projetos em parceria com a Articulação no Semiárido Brasileiro (ASA), envolvendo diversos financiadores.

A metodologia de implantação da cisterna inclui o processo pedagógico de criação do sentido da convivência com o Semiárido, a partir da ação concreta de debater com as famílias entre outros temas a Gestão dos Recursos Hídricos na comunidade e entorno. É a partir dessa metodologia que estão sendo realizadas as Visitas Técnicas e Encontros Comunitários do Projeto Bahia Produtiva.

Na atividade, as famílias são chamadas para o diálogo sobre acesso à água, consumo e gestão da água na comunidade, saúde, uso sustentável da água na produção da agricultura familiar e luta pelo acesso à água. Segundo César Damásio, assessor pedagógico do Projeto ATER Bahia Produtiva, discutir o tema nesta semana foi extremamente importante já que as comunidades escolhidas tem realidades distintas, mas pautas comuns quando o assunto é água. “No âmbito do Bahia Produtiva a temática é relevante porque os empreendimentos da agricultura familiar  financiados deverão se preocupar com a água para que tenham bons resultados, disse”.

Além do ATER Bahia Produtiva, os Projetos ATER Quilombola I e II também debatem o tema de forma transversal com as famílias beneficiárias no processo de execução das ações do projeto.

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O Centro de Assessoria do Assuruá realizou nos dias 10 e 11 de julho, no auditório da CODEVASF em Irecê-BA, a Oficina de Formação de Agentes Comunitários Rurais (ACR)  e Agentes Comunitários de Apicultura (ACA), como primeira atividade do projeto ATER Bahia Produtiva, em parceria com a Companhia de Desenvolvimento e Ação Regional (CAR).

A oficina teve como objetivo capacitar os agentes contratados pelas associações e cooperativas do Território de Irecê, através dos convênios do Projeto Bahia Produtiva, para qualificar o serviço de assessoria comunitária a ser prestado pelos ACA’s e ACR’s aos empreendimentos da agricultura familiar financiados.

Participaram da atividade agentes das comunidades de Prevenido/América Dourada, Salobro/Canarana, Vereda/Central, Mocozeiro e Fazenda Nova/Irecê, Cajueiro/Itaguaçu da Bahia, Rodagem/Lapão e Boa Hora/São Gabriel, além do Chefe do escritório da CAR, Sérgio Varella e equipe do projeto.

Para a coordenadora Zene Vieira, a atividade foi produtiva e com boa participação dos agentes no processo formativo, onde o foco foi realizar um treinamento com excelência para que a ATER prestada pelo CAA possa contribuir de forma qualitativa para o desempenho das atividades dos agentes no campo.

A Oficina de formação é uma das quatro atividades que serão executadas pelo CAA no âmbito do projeto que tem duração de 03 anos. Fazem parte ainda da prestação de serviço neste primeiro ano (julho/17 a julho/18) a realização de Seminários Territoriais, Encontros Comunitários e Visitas Técnicas para 12 empreendimentos. No segundo e terceiro ano outros 12 subprojetos serão incorporados à prestação de serviço.

Dando sequência aos trabalhos, o CAA irá realizar nos dias 20 e 21 de julho o I Seminário Territorial com representantes de beneficiários.

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A agricultura familiar vem demonstrando, gradualmente, sua capacidade de fazer parte da solução de vários desafios globais atuais, desde a perda de biodiversidade e a degradação dos solos até a segurança alimentar e a erradicação da  fome e da pobreza, mas tudo isso se dispuser dos meios adequados sustentáveis para tanto.Produzir e consumir alimentos de forma a resultar produtos saudáveis, que os torne acessíveis, com distribuição mais igualitária e equilibrada, e visando diminuir ao máximo seu desperdício é uma das maneiras mais viáveis de combater a fome.

Diferentemente do que muitos imaginam, ao lado do uso consciente de alimentos em todas as fases de compra e uso dos alimentos em casa, a redução do desperdício começa já nas etapas de plantio, armazenagem, processamento e distribuição de alimentos, que deve ser feita de forma sustentável, considerando as necessidades e possibilidades socioambientais, em prol da comunidade global e do planeta. O Akatu acredita que cada um pode contribuir no combate à fome fazendo escolhas mais conscientes na compra e uso de alimentos, reforçando uma das dez afirmações feitas pelas Nações Unidas: A fome é o maior problema solucionável do mundo.

Relatório divulgado no dia 27 de junho pelo Banco Mundial aponta que somente aumentando a produtividade agrícola das famílias de baixa renda será possível  cumprir o Objetivo de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (ODS) nº 2 – acabar com a fome, conquistar a segurança alimentar e promover a agricultura sustentável. Atualmente, 70% da população pobre do mundo trabalha no campo. Outro motivo para apostar na produtividade agrícola – em especial a de cereais – é o fato de ela influenciar diretamente os números da fome e desnutrição. De 2000 a 2012, quando houve aumento médio anual de 2,6% na produção de cereais nos países de baixa renda, a pobreza e a desnutrição caíram 2,7% ao ano. Já entre 1990 e 1999, quando a produção ficou estagnada nos países mais pobres do mundo, houve pouca melhora nos índices de pobreza e saúde nutricional. A cada dia, 27 milhões de latino-americanos e caribenhos – 5,5% da população da região – acordam sem ter o que comer, de acordo com a Organização das Nações Unidas para Agricultura e Alimentação (FAO).

Entre 1990 e 1992, este percentual estava em 14,7%. Para as Nações Unidas, o bom desempenho econômico e agrícola e as políticas de proteção social, como  programas de alimentação escolar e apoio à agricultura familiar , contribuíram para os progressos na região. Os avanços da região, porém, não foram iguais. Entre 1990 e 2015,  a desnutrição diminuiu em 75% na América do Sul, enquanto na América Central a redução foi de 38,2%, contra 26,6% entre a população do Caribe no mesmo período. No ano passado, quase 20% dos caribenhos ainda lutavam contra a desnutrição. Nos últimos 25 anos, a subnutrição caiu quase pela metade em todo planeta, de 19% para 11%. No entanto, ainda há 795 milhões de pessoas desnutridas no mundo, a maior parte delas em países de baixa renda, como os da África Subsaariana.

Fonte: Instituto Akatu

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IT ALL BEGINS WITH THE BREAD. The morning shift slips through the predawn still and into the modest kitchen at 4am to start baking it. When diners come, the breads asiago sourdough, nine grain and Tibetan barley among them arrive first, long before the wood roasted California sea bass or house aged rib eye, delivered on cutting boards with exotic salts and fresh butter. And it was bread, after all, that helped settle the principals when they headed north in the first place.

Big Sur Bakery frontman and co founder Mike Gilson had long visited lively local celebrity Terry “Hide” Prince, famed for hand crafted sandals, spirited storytelling and hearty homemade bread. spot, Campanile, to scope the rickety purple, orange and blue roadhouse he and Prince had discovered, English import Prince whipped up some of his signature bread patties, chewy pucks crafted from things like quinoa, flax, poppy seeds, buttermilk, beer and oat bran.

“This was no Los Angeles,” Michelle remembers. “But Terry put the kettle on, offered us our first installment of his famous homemade Hide bread, and gave us a tour of the restaurant, which had a bunch of bakery equipment and, as promised, a giant hand built Alan Scott wood fired oven.”

“You bite it and you realize you’re not gonna be swallowing that bread any time soon,” Prince laughs. But she said, ‘I like this.'”

A parade of locals soon popped inquisitive heads in, volunteering unsolicited advice and constant reminders that no restaurant had lasted on the gas station adjacent spot.

But eight years later, the iffy proposition just might be the most popular meeting place between San Luis Obispo and Carmel. Two weeks ago, HarperCollins published the Big Sur Bakery Cookbook: A Year in the Life of a Restaurant, a magnetic and mouthwatering work that celebrates how much flavor the bakery has to offer and how woven into the local fabric their family has become in a relatively short amount of time. (“This is not just another restaurant cookbook,” says La Brea Bakery founder Nancy Silverton. “Every dish comes with a tale.”)

Prince and the bread offer a glimpse of the ingredients that made such a story possible. But he’s just one of many personalities to play a part in a place that has the New York Times bubbling, “The food has an elegance that only the best ingredients, cheap jerseys simply prepared, can carry off.” The bread they bake daily inspired by Prince’s Hide but carrying an identity all its own is an accessible metaphor for the approach that has worked: good, simple, fresh, rustic fare. The others surface repeatedly across the 252 pages of the new book work ethic, seasonality, sense of community. Gather them, and they read like the survival guide to Big Sur.

A MASSIVE DASH OF SEASONALITY

Longtime locals eye a steaming pizza blessed with sweet dates, rich porcinis and sharp arugula with ravenous retinas. Travelers from Denmark fork through fresh mache salads layered with soft green avocado, slices of electric red citrus, toasted almonds and golden balsamic dressing. Gilson dips from trying a wine rep’s latest offers at the redwood bar/baked treat display case to refreshing glasses of a recent discovery (Rad Dog Reisling).

It’s summer in the Sur and the bakery is cooking. A larger than normal staff is moving quickly through small as ever spaces. Powerfully popular pizzas “I didn’t go to culinary school to make pizzas,” Philip told the New York Times, but as Michelle says, they “literally” pay the rent take almost an hour in a crowded oven. They’re worth the wait (and the $18).

A grin doesn’t seem to leave Gilson’s wide, warm grill. “The bakery is the best when food is flying out of the kitchen, people are pleased with it and so comfortable in our unique atmosphere,” he says. “For businesses in Big Sur, though, December is about going broke.”

The year in the life approach of the cookbook helps offer an antidote to an idealism identified in the intro: “Yes, Big Sur is one of the most beautiful places we’ve seen, but most articles and books about Big Sur give an overly glossy sense of what life here is like.”

Though they completed writing the book just before the Basin Complex Fire devoured historic acreage, the chronological format captures other Sur centric events a mountain lion munching up several pets, paralyzing power outtages that suggest simply surviving here is a form of thriving.

The corresponding change in the season’s more edible incarnations, meanwhile, ably demonstrates why today’s best chefs swear by the seasons. March, where the book begins, stuffs potato frittata, the lauded breakfast pizza profiled by New York Times Magazine, nine grain pancakes, brown butter rhubarb bars (see recipe, this page) and five others into the month’s mouth. Items like the lime tart which looks absurdly appetizing through photographer Sara Remington’s lens arrive in April, when the 50 year Big Sur resident Clovis Harrod’s miracle tree starts to bequeath citrus in abundance (record payload: 200 pounds). Spring risotto follows in May buttressed by dishes like house cured salmon, braised rabbit and a strawberry and rose geranium shake before the book flows through the rest of the year, eventually hitting on the stuffed turkey legs and garlic gravys that come with Thanksgiving and the celebration of chanterelles at the wet tail end of winter.

ONE DOZEN FLAVORFUL CHARACTERS

Wayne Hyland is a trip. More specifically, he’s a fishing trip that starts with a stationary bike powered pulley that lowers equipment and ice chests to his 12 foot skiff and ends with him motoring around the craggy coastline shirtless to hidden spots where rockfish thicken into colorful clumps. His job at BSB, according to his profile in the cookbook: “I supply half a cord of wood a week for the oven. And I bring in interesting types of meat.”

And while the protein (and his foraged mushrooms) are much appreciated, and the local oak is fundamental to the fire that burns in the bakery’s belly, readers of the cookbook will get the idea that the identity provided by the weathered grandson of a Miwok Californian Indian who has been charged by blue whales more than once is equally key. After all, they write, his and the other 11 profiles are included (one for each month of the journal) because these people “have shaped our experience here, not to mention our food.”

The choice cuts become a buffet of revelations. Local pasture farmer Jim Dunlop of Tastes Like Chicken Ranch (below), in addition to past lives as an after hours nightclub bouncer, punk rocker and Marine with a machine gun, is also a former “Man Against Horse” race champion. Thickly bearded poke pole fisherman and self appointed daytime manager Forrest Millington last drove a car when Jimmy Carter was putting solar panels on the White House, and walks an estimated 2,000 miles a year as a result. Microgreen suppliers Eric Franks and Jasmine Richardson grow their goods on their porch and their tiny delicacies, like the ingredients each purveyor draws from basket or sack, are treasures to discover themselves.

Even the principal players entertain by way of eccentricity. Tatted new dad Philip plays in a punk metal band. Wine guy/host/handyman Gilson has a full blown fetish for overalls. And Michelle is likely the weirdest simply because she’s the only one who outwardly appears normal.

As such they proffer a human parallel to the old bakery itself, whose unlikely filling station location, paired with the unassuming 1930s ranch house haunts and rustic robust fare, make it, as Michelle accurately notes, a reason people “feel like it’s a special place that they’ve personally discovered.”

“Like so many of my favorite spots there,” Eric Schlosser observes in the foreword, “the Big Sur Bakery is hiding in plain sight.”

A HEAPING TABLESPOON OF BEAUTY

Somehow the picture of blueberry pie on page 83 jeweled with infinitesimal scintillas of sugar and dangling one idyllic drip of filling from the cliff of its crust is as pretty as the closing portrait of a post fire, poppy replenished marine terrace. But in a way that makes sense: The Big Sur Bakery Cookbook has all the good looks that an offspring of the comely South Coast should have. Unsurprisingly, photog Remington is credited in the acknowledgements with helping clear away all the delicious portrait subjects post shoot. The book could come with a drool guard.

“Phil and I both had ’64 [Ford] Rancheros and this passion for food,” Gilson says. “We weren’t all that close, but we had an unspoken bond, and I think Phil was looking for an adventure.”

Once here, Michelle was ambivalent, but Philip was clear. Sure the rare oven beckoned, but the beauty boomed. “When you know, you know,” he says.

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Matthew Hagerty could soon become the most popular kid in all of ConceptionBaySouth.

Through his wish to the Children’s WishFoundation, the 14 year old will have a 45’x65′ multipurpose asphalt court installed in his own backyard this summer.

Hagerty, who has lived with cystic fibrosis his whole life, says he could have made a typical wish, like going to meet his favourite baseball or hockey player, but he chose something that would last.

“I wanted something I could have for the rest of me life so it’ll be a longer lasting experience than just going for a week and seeing a great baseball player or hockey player,” says Hagerty, who is anxious to share his wish with family and friends.

“I really wanted it to benefit a lot more people than just me, because that way it’s way more fun.”

The court will be set up for basketball and other sports, but Hagerty says more often than not, he and his friends will use it to play ball hockey.

“The main focus is hockey, ” he says, “because I want the lines drawn on it.”

Cystic fibrosis is a disorder which affects lung health and how the pancreas breaks down food, but Hagerty has never let it slow him down.

“Aside from not being able to play ice hockey because my lungs were weak and if I got hit, it could hurt them, it hasn’t affected my everyday life that much,” says the plucky teenager, who plays between the pipes in street hockey.cheap jerseys

“I still have fun, go out with friends, they don’t see me any differently, they just see me as MattHags.”

Plenty of assists on this play

Hagerty’s wish is being funded bythe Children’s Wish Foundation, who themselves are receiving some charitable assistance through theColdwell Banker Pro Co CommunityPledge for Charity.

This year’s initiative, being championed by real estate agents GavonRussell and Roger Kennedy, involves a partnership with the Xtreme HockeyLeague, a recreational summer circuit aimed at giving local pros, minor pros, major junior and junior A players a good skate during the off season.

Among the players who regularly skate in the league are Bonavista native and newly acquired BuffaloSabres defenceman AdamPardy, San Jose Sharks forward Ryane Clowe, European pros RodiShort and MarkLee, and countless major junior, junior A and senior hockey league players. On hand for the season openers Tuesday night were the Tampa BayLightning’s TeddyPurcell and former NHL rearguard John Slaney.

“It’s a shinny game compared to an actual in season game, but this is where you’re going to see Teddy do a toe drag and then go top corner,” says Kennedy, a former Quebec Major Junior HockeyLeague goalie who also plays in the league.

“Those moments you see once every five games, you’ll see four or five times a game down here.”

Throughout the summer, anyone who wishes to attend one of the league’s games atJackByrne Arena, instead of being as to pay an admission fee, patrons will be asked to make a donation to the Children’s Wish Foundation. There will also be tickets sold on autographed jerseys from Clowe and Purcell.

“It’s great to put a smile on someone’s face, especially someone like Matthew,” says Kennedy. “He’ll never forget this day.”

Donations won’t just go towards making Hagerty’s wish come true, they’ll also help make more wishes come true for other kids.

“It’s a real help fromXtreme Hockey, Coldwell Banker Pro Co, and Children’s Wish,” says Hagerty.

“If you can give any little thing, even a toonie would be great. It’s really hard to do so many wishes for so many great people, so any donation can help.”

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The four major professional sports leagues aren’t the only ones cashing in on the popularity of the retro fashion craze. The Harlem Globetrotters have a piece of the action as well.

After a futile seven year relationship with Reebok, the Globetrotters whose look hasn’t changed much over the years finally hit it big in May 2002 when they signed an apparel deal with urban outfitter, FUBU.

In the past six months, FUBU has sold millions of high end warm ups, jerseys and sweaters that come with the Globetrotters logo, and in April the company will release three shoes, including one performance model, tied into the power of the Globetrotter brand.

“It was one of our strongest releases ever,” FUBU CEO Daymond John said. “We started making these when the throwback jersey craze was really exploding.”
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Thanks in part to the Globetrotters’ success at retail, the organization is projecting its highest non gate revenues in North American since the team was founded 76 years ago.

“We begged Nike, adidas and Reebok to take us seriously and they didn’t,” said former Globetrotter Mannie Jackson, who bought the Globetrotters in 1993 for $5.5 million. “So we went to FUBU and now we’re kicking sand in the face of these big guys. If I had any idea that this could be a $100 million business, I would have never been able to buy the team for that price.”

Jackson said the Globetrotters and FUBU will soon feature a complete apparel line including the jerseys of former stars like Curly Neal, Meadowlark Lemon, Reece “Goose” Tatum and Wilt Chamberlain.

The hottest item yet to be released might be the Globetrotters red and white satin pants. Since rapper Nelly wore them in a recent video, phones have lit up in the Globetrotters’ Arizona office inquiring about the debut of the pants, Jackson said.

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F ootball players consider golfers to be : non athletes. They (my football teammates) think golf is not hard at all, that golf is an easy sport. I think golf is one of the hardest sports, you can’t just go out there and pick up a golf club.

G ators, Seminoles or Hurricanes?: Gators.

H appiest day of my life: In baseball last season, we were down one run to Jacksonville First Coast Christian in the bottom of the seventh of the district semifinals. Ben Petito hit a two run double to win the game. I was the tying run at third base.

I nk anywhere?: No.cheap jerseys

J oker on team: Me and Bobby Clark joke around a lot. We are constantly making up stupid nicknames.

K ickers are : very prone to injuries.

L east favorite football moment: probably going to Branford last week on their homecoming night. (St. Francis lost 49 0).

M y fastest teammate: Bobby Clark and Louis Rosado.

N erdiest thing I do: I wear high white crew socks everyday.

O bama or McCain?: McCain. He has experience fighting overseas. That is who I want running my country.

P otential college major: Sports management.

Q uiet time activity: Sleeping.

R yder Cup or Super Bowl?: Ryder Cup. Just go back to the last one, that should be all the reason right there. If anyone watched the last one (won by the United States), I don’t how anyone can’t like it.

S tory of my life title: Keep Fighting and Never Give Up.

T iger Woods or Phil Mickelson?: Tiger Woods. Coming down the stretch no one can beat him.

U niversities or colleges considering: Flagler, UNF, FSU.

V acation spot I love: Going with my family to New Smyrna Beach. We’ve been going there every year since I was born.

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The State Board of Higher Education, anticipating this week’s action by the Legislature, directed UND to prepare for a transition away from Fighting Sioux, a transition that the board said should be substantially completed by Dec. 31.”We had a plan in place” for how to handle the various licensing and merchandising arrangements involving Fighting Sioux gear, said Peter Johnson, executive associate vice president for university relations. “But that was disrupted” when the Legislature passed a law requiring UND to keep using the nickname.Under that plan, “basically there would be no more production of clothing or other items after a certain date,”cheap jerseys Johnson said, “but that plan became moot when the Legislature took its action in the spring.”It’s one of the many issues likely to be assigned to a new transition team. 31.”We had a plan in place” for how to handle the various licensing and merchandising arrangements involving Fighting Sioux gear, said Peter Johnson, executive associate vice president for university relations. “But that was disrupted” when the Legislature passed a law requiring UND to keep using the nickname.Under that plan, “basically there would be no more production of clothing or other items after a certain date,” Johnson said, “but that plan became moot when the Legislature took its action in the spring.”It’s one of the many issues likely to be assigned to a new transition team.But Johnson confirmed what President Robert Kelley said back in April 2010, after he had received transition marching orders from the state board: Even when the nickname and logo pass into history, nobody will tell anybody they can’t wear a Fighting Sioux jersey to a hockey game.

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William Shatner loves deep fried turkey, but over many Thanksgivings and Christmases he’s made mistakes, burned himself, and nearly burned down his house. In this dramatic retelling, Bill shows us how dangerous turkey fryers can be.

Psychiatrist: Man accused of stabbing father not competentOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) A man accused of fatally stabbing his father, the state’s former labor commissioner, suffers from paranoid delusions and is mentally incompetent to stand trial for first degree murder, a psychiatrist wrote in a report released Wednesday.cheap jerseys

Cold Case trial: defense says woman fell from boat in 1962LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) The southwest Louisiana coroner who reopened the investigation of a 1962 death says he’s “100 percent sure” that the 22 year old woman was killed, rather than the victim of an accidental drowning.

New report will fuel debate over closing Guantanamo prisonWASHINGTON (AP) A new report on Guantanamo detainees tells the stories of former al Qaida bomb makers and bodyguards as well as low level militant cooks and medics who have been transferred or cleared for release despite fears they are at risk of returning to battle.

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