Reducing Poverty
Subsistence Farmers
Subsistence farmers – this is the term used for people who can just about feed themselves and cloth their families – just about. In reality, they have not a great quality of life and in the harsher extremes, go hungry, wear the same clothes for months and even years and when the weather is bad….well, the accommodation is better than nothing right?
Are these people lazy? From our experience, these people are far from lazy working many hours to make ends meet and feed their families as best they can. They tend to be proud people who want to make their own way in life but through the misfortune of being born in a community where there is little money, resource or markets’, getting ahead is really difficult.
We can see from our experiences and those of others that having a market and product to sell very quickly builds financial independence allowing an almost immediate improvement for rural community’s standard of living. The Programme Managers initiate this with the oil trees but the intercropping, the harvesting, the plethora of other activity that surrounds these oil plantations all create a growing movement of money and markets within markets which all cycle upwards into a bigger and stronger rural economy.
Solutions do not need to be complicated and this one is a very simple, tangible and commercial solution with considerable sustainability.
Communities
Rural Communities in the developing nations have a tough time making ends meet. There are several factors for this which in a very simplistic form includes:
- There is very little in the way of commerce to develop income for inward investment into machinery or better crops or even tools
- There is very little in the way of infrastructure – roads to take goods to market, water to irrigate and electricity for manufacturing.
The knowledge base is limited to conversations had within a limited travelling distance due to no media access which limits farming development into crops which could increase income - Negative migration is rampant – the younger people travel to the cities where there are markets into which they can sell some goods or even their bodies in a disturbing number of instances.
- Lack of value and stature comes with negative migration and an aging population.
- There is a lot of people and hungry mouths to feed so the pressure to compete and make money is considerable in a limited marketplace.
The Programme Managers work to bring economic stimuli to these communities. The trees grow in the poor soils, do not need considerable maintenance and the rewards are clear and tangible very rapidly as within your initial purchase price is money for the two years of the management of the tree for the farmer and operations so they can make ends meet quickly, so they can see the future and stay motivated.
The Programme Managers have a phased plan for community development but one that is driven by the communities themselves. Success in the field leads to revenue in the pockets. This leads to school investments and infrastructure paid for by revenue from the fields. This is just the beginning of the commercial enterprise and development of these communities as the money over several years develops and grows into larger income allowing budgeted expansion and inward investment. All of this starts with a few oil trees…….
And the results from this oil resource development we believe are options and hope. People now have an opportunity to make money where perhaps this did not exist before or was limited. Now there are or can be soon, the ability to make a choice about migration, food, education and health resulting in more stability within the family and community units.
National Benefits
The Programme Manager’s Operations offer considerable National Benefits through Green Oil operations. These include:
- Significant sustainable employment particularly in rural communities
- Domestically generated fuel resources and energy solutions which can replace imported fossil fuels including coal, HFO and diesel
- Significant political support for energy, employment and economic stimuli through green oil programme implementation
- Considerable currency reserve benefits
- Considerable balance of payments benefits
- Long term financial and economic benefits locally and nationally.
- A reference point for further international investment
