GREEN BELT SOUTHERN EUROPE

GREEN BELT

SOUTHERN EUROPE

South-european Greenbelt Initiative

In spring '98 Masanobu Fukuoka and his longtime scholar Panaiotis Manikis initiated the "Greenbelt for southern Europe"initiative . The goal is to create a green belt in Europe - to stop desertification and recreate fertile soils . A first largescale sowing (10.000 ha) took place at Lake Vegoritida in Northern Greece . Fukuoka led the project .

"If we manage
to sow
10.000 ha ,
we can call
the rain ..."

Masanobu Fukuoka

Gruppen-Foto

European volunteers, several hundred pupils, students and farmers sowed out completely 7 tons of seed pellets with 60 tons of alumina and on 2.500 hectars . Ministers, scientists, journalists and the local population showed active interest and supported the action .

This was the first of further planned sowings in deforested areas in southern Europe. Resumed in the autumn 1998 sowing internal message it north Greece. Further action will take place in southern Greece, Italy and Portugal.

Possibilities of participation

Seed collecting Seedbanks Information Cash Donation
Participation-sowing

Seed collecting

everything that is germable and occurs in Europe
all cores of fruit, which one eats daily, also of grapes and lemon type fruit , can be collected
Vegetable seed of all kinds from the own garden (types of radish, salad and spinach, peas and types of bean among other things.) The seeds are best washed, dried, filled in marked paper bags , indicating their origin

Seeds from seed enterprises and seed banks

Seeds supplies of seed growers, grain, peas and types of bean and vegetables of all kinds (best of biological cultivation), also such, which deviates from the standard, can be donated to us or be transferred at a favourable price.

Inform Friends, Clients, etc. and make them participate the project

Copy and distribute info-flyers
Write articles about this project
Make Links in the WWW.
Support us with vehicles, tools, food and material
Cash donation

DONATION ACCOUNT:

Zisula Cordaches

Account Nr.: 801812-103

Bank: Postbank Berlin

Bank-Code: 100 100 10

Stichwort : Grüner Gürtel Südeuropa

Participation with the sowing

Every person , who would like to help with the sowing experiments, and would like to become acquainted with the method, in order to apply it locally at home, are warmly invited . We are gladly ready, to present the work in the form of dia or film - lecture. If you would like to participate in planned activities , you can retrieve information at the appropriate addresses (see below) . We are also still looking for humans, who support the project by translating the text of this homepage into other languages of the Mediterranean area e.g.: English, Greek, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Turkish...