We met Vanaja at a seed meeting with Vandana in Inida and we became friends. She invited us to be leading a course on establishing community seed banks in Karnataka State and Tamil Nadu. She come to visit us in Byron Bay. Dr Vanaja RamprasadVanaja founded the GREEN Foundation in the 1980s in Bangalore to work with marginal and tribal farmers on conserving traditional dryland cereals and pulses. They have many projects and collaborations with other organisations and have attracted international attention to their work.
For more information on GREEN Foundation see http://www.greenconserve.com
Dr. Vanaja Ramprasad
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Dr Liz multi talents at work
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Dr Liz Elliot multi talented medical practitioner. She produced a few hundred illustrations in a very short space of...
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Vanuatu. We Took Part In An Australian Aid Program. It Was More About Helping Your Country Than Ours
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Australia has long held an ideological opposition to the way of life of my people in Vanuatu. Customary land,...
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Marvin the Ringneck
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Marvin the Indian Ringneck comes in every day and sings songs from all the other birds he has learnt....
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Jerry Coleby-Williams interviews SeedSavers' Michel and Jude Fanton
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Aug 9th 2014: on ABC TV Gardening Australia”A SeedSavers retrospective” with Jerry CW, long time friend & board member....
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Michelle Margolis Garden of Eden in Sydney
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Alfredo Bonanno: prolific illustrator
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Alfredo grew all the plants so he had a life model to draw the hundreds of illustrations for the...
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They are the salt of the world. We got so much inspiration from PNG people who are one of the...
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Dorothy village visionary in Makira
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Collecting banana varieties and species rare and endangered was Dorothy’s passion. She lived with husband a bush carpenter and...