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*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE*

*for sustainable agriculture and land management*

Dear Subscribers,

Please see herebelow a message from Didi Pershouse regarding an online
gathering with Precious Phiri of Zimbabwe next Wednesday, June 17th, to
hear stories of land regeneration in Africa, and discuss what lessons we
can learn from her stories.

Thank you Didi for sharing.

Apologies for any cross-posting.

*Amir Kassam *

*Moderator*

*Global CA-CoP*

e-mail: [log in to unmask]

URL: http://www.fao.org/conservation-agriculture


*Conservation Agriculture is an ecosystem approach to regenerative
sustainable agriculture and land management based on the practical
application of context-specific and locally adapted three interlinked
principles of: (i) Continuous no or minimum mechanical soil disturbance
(no-till seeding/planting and weeding, and minimum soil disturbance with
all other farm operations including harvesting);  (ii) permanent
maintenance of soil mulch cover (crop biomass, stubble and cover crops);
and (iii) diversification of cropping system (economically, environmentally
and socially adapted rotations and/or sequences and/or associations
involving annuals and/or perennials, including legumes and cover crops),
along with other complementary good agricultural production and land
management practices.*

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From: Didi Pershouse <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 11:28 AM
Subject: Stories of Regeneration with Precious Phiri of Zimbabwe
To: <[log in to unmask]>


Sign up to join us live on Wednesday, June 17th.

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*
<https://didipershouse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6075151f49894b2c63289a22a&id=68fce92d8b&e=945a64a7ce>Didi
Pershouse*
*Author • Soil Sponge Strategist • Educator*
*Founder of the Land & Leadership Initiative*

*Author of The Ecology of Care
<https://didipershouse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6075151f49894b2c63289a22a&id=27f4ac0652&e=945a64a7ce>
and Understanding Soil Health and Watershed Function
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*Hello friends, *
As a celebration of the (often hidden) leadership of black, brown, and
indigenous people around the world, *you are invited to an online gathering
with Precious Phiri of Zimbabwe next Wednesday, June 17th, to hear stories
of land regeneration in Africa, and discuss what lessons we can learn from
her stories*.

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Those of you who already know Precious Phiri, know her incredible energy,
focus, integrity, and power.

For nine years, she was the Coordinator of Training at the Africa Center
for Holistic Management--the Savory Hub in Zimbabwe. She is now
Regeneration International’s Africa coordinator and the founder of
EarthWisdom network.

Precious and I met at a conference five years ago, after which, she visited
Vermont and we've been connected ever since. We formed a small
international group--along with Diana Donlon, Judith Schwartz, Alexandra
Groome, and Cindy Eiritz--that meets regularly for mutual resourcing and to
cheer each other on: Sisters Working In Soil Health (SWISH).

*At this live, online gathering, we will discuss:*

   - How Precious brings together people, animals, land, and wisdom from
   multiple households, villages, and tribal groups to regenerate whole
   landscapes.
   - How she navigates gender, tribal, and racial challenges by bringing
   her essence and aims to the forefront, and helps others do the same.
   - How local social agreements and government agreements protect efforts
   of land regeneration from continuous business booms.
   - Lessons learned from the process: social, ecological, and economic
   challenges, setbacks, and questions that still await answers.

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Sign me up for the online gathering!
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Together, Precious and I will offer perspectives for applying these
successes to farming, ranching, and land management in other regions. We
will examine what is unique to these projects, and to Phiri’s approach, and
what we can learn from them as examples of living systems at work. Those
attending the gathering will participate in the conversation, and in small
discussion groups, using a living systems approach as a way of viewing
their own projects and communities. All are welcome.
*REGENERATION: *
STORIES OF WHAT WORKS
with Precious Phiri and Didi Pershouse
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Wednesday, June 17th,
6-9 PM CAT (Harare, Zimbabwe)
9:30-12:30 PM UTC (Delhi, India)
12-3 PM EDT (New York, USA)
(We will record the session for those
who cannot attend live)

*Fee: $35*
*We invite people from the Global South, and B**lack, Indigenous, and
People of Color to attend for free (by clicking on $35 payment then using
the coupon code BIPOC during registration) *

For help with registration please email [log in to unmask], and/or
[log in to unmask]

Please consider making an additional donation during checkout to support
our ongoing work.
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Sign me up!
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*Precious Phiri * is a member of the Regeneration International
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steering
committee and also serves as Regeneration International's Africa
Coordinator. She is a training and development specialist in regenerative
approaches to environmental issues and community organizing.

She is the founder of EarthWisdom, an organization and network which she
formed following her nine-year full time career as Coordinator of Training
with the Africa Center for Holistic Management--the Savory hub in Zimbabwe.
Her vast experience in education, mobilizing communal populations, and
engaging institutions (in Zimbabwe and other regions in Africa) in
restorative farming programs using Holistic Land and Livestock Management
(HLLM) is the force behind her network.

Her work currently focuses on training rural communities and collaborating
with networks in Africa to reduce poverty, rebuild soils, and restore food
and water security for people, livestock, and wildlife.


*Didi Pershouse *is the author of *The Ecology of Care: Medicine,
Agriculture, Money, and the Quiet Power of Human and Microbial Communities
<https://didipershouse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6075151f49894b2c63289a22a&id=fd451144b9&e=945a64a7ce>*
and *Understanding Soil Health and Watershed Function
<https://didipershouse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6075151f49894b2c63289a22a&id=9e8da54f8e&e=945a64a7ce>*.
She is a lead author for the "Future Directions" chapter of the UN-FAO
Technical Manual on Soil Organic Carbon Management, and a contributing
author for *Health in the Anthropocene
<https://didipershouse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6075151f49894b2c63289a22a&id=8ee7840ce8&e=945a64a7ce>*
.

Didi brings conservatives and liberals together into effective working
groups with common goals: improving soil health, public health, water
security, and regional resilience through simple changes in land
management. Both online and in-person, her participatory workshops engage
farmers and ranchers, policymakers, investors, and scientists in systems
thinking and deep listening, to allow for emergent strategies. She was one
of five speakers at the United Nations-FAO World Soil Day
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in 2017.

She is the founder of the Land and Leadership Initiative
<https://didipershouse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6075151f49894b2c63289a22a&id=b1b8e59dd5&e=945a64a7ce>
and the Center for Sustainable Medicine, and a co-founder of Regenerate
Earth and the "Can we Rehydrate California?"
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Initiative.  She is currently working on projects with the UN-FAO Farmer
Field School program; the Climate Resilient Zero Budget Natural Farming
Initiative in Andhra Pradesh, India; and the No Regrets Initiative. She is
a member of the Vermont State appointed Payment For Ecosystem Services and
Soil Health Working Group
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and is on the board of directors of the Soil Carbon Coalition
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and the Vermont Healthy Soils Coalition
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.
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Click here to sign up for this online gathering
<https://didipershouse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6075151f49894b2c63289a22a&id=b8dace755d&e=945a64a7ce>

All of the Land and Leadership Initiative's past webinars are now available
for FREE (though if you can afford to pay, please do.)


   - Resiliency From the Ground Up: How Diverse Cover Cropping Can Profit
   Your Farm and Community
   <https://didipershouse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6075151f49894b2c63289a22a&id=2cd6192f67&e=945a64a7ce>
with
   Keith Berns and Didi Pershouse
   - Case Studies of the Soil Food Web with Dr. Elaine Ingham
   <https://didipershouse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6075151f49894b2c63289a22a&id=a82c7ef10b&e=945a64a7ce>
   - The Soil Food Web with Dr. Elaine Ingham
   <https://didipershouse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6075151f49894b2c63289a22a&id=d08c46beda&e=945a64a7ce>
   - Walter Jehne & Didi Pershouse on the Soil Carbon Sponge: Structure,
   Function, and Formation
   <https://didipershouse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6075151f49894b2c63289a22a&id=c949eb65fe&e=945a64a7ce>
   - How a state in India got half a million farmers to adopt Zero Budget
   Natural Farming
   <https://didipershouse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6075151f49894b2c63289a22a&id=d6bd014e3b&e=945a64a7ce>
   - How New Mexico Successfully Passed its Healthy Soil Act
   <https://didipershouse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6075151f49894b2c63289a22a&id=60cbe1eb84&e=945a64a7ce>
   - Walter Jehne on Hydrological Cooling and the Soil Sponge
   <https://didipershouse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6075151f49894b2c63289a22a&id=189374c584&e=945a64a7ce>

Looking forward to sharing stories of hope with you.
Love,
*Didi*

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*Didi Pershouse*
Author • Soil Sponge Strategist • Educator
www.didipershouse.com
www.rehydratecalifornia.org
http://soilcarboncoalition.org/learn
(603) 252-1930
Download my facilitator's manual <http://soilcarboncoalition.org/learn>
Learn online with me: The Land & Leadership Initiative
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