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community

The Vetiver System (VS) has been described as "the glue that holds a community together". The challenge of climate change for many communities is enormouse and the need for low cost technologies is essential if these challenges are to be met, particularly in rural areas. VS will provide a poor community a survival pack to ensure the long term protection of its assets without having to resort to significant government and external suport. VS will: protect against soil erosion, rehabilitate wasted land, improve soil fertility and soil moisture and increase crop yields, improve ground water supplies and the quality of water, protect basic infrastructure from damage due to flooding and slippage, clean up polluted sites (trash dumps), treat domestic and animal sewage, provide forage, thatch, mulch, protection against insects, rudimentary medicines, materials for handicrafts and many other benefits. The use of vetiver biomass as a resource material for handicrafts provides an excellent entry point for wider VS applications in a community. Most of the known applications of the Vetiver System can be applied by communities using community labor. Often community members can apply vetiver for a primary purpose and get many secondary benefits as a consequence.

Webinar: Developing, marketing and social impact of vetiver grass based handicrafts: Webinar video (complete). This webinar demonstrates how vetiver handicrafts can be an important community activities leading to other communityuses of vetiver. [individual presentation videos - Jacob Jose (india); Paula Leao Pereira (Brazil); Vonnie Roudette (St Vincent and The Grenadines); June Slinger (Grenada); Oswaldo Luque (Venezuela)]

Webinar: Developing, marketing and social impact of vetiver grass based handicrafts: Webinar video (complete). This webinar demonstrates how vetiver handicrafts can be an important community activities leading to other communityuses of vetiver. [individual presentation videos - Jacob Jose (india); Paula Leao Pereira (Brazil); Vonnie Roudette (St Vincent and The Grenadines); June Slinger (Grenada); Oswaldo Luque (Venezuela)]

Vetiver and it's system for community development in
Ethiopia
This presentation by Habtamu Webshet, a long time promoter of VS at large scale was one of the best of those presented at the recent Vetiver Workshop in Addis Ababa. It has a lot to offer to other African countries that have to mitigate climate change impacts.

A community works together to create a vetiver supported vegetable garden.

East Bali Poverty Project, Indonesia. NGO managed program for 10,000 people. Children were key in learning about VS. Here is a new vegetable garden created through the Vetiver System. Also a nice presentation from David Booth relating to the use of VS by the East Bali Poverty Project and by the Indonesia Vetiver Network

People of Thailand learn how to make vetiver handicrafts.

Thailand. Many communities are using vetiver grass leaves as an excellent source of handicraft material. The Thais will train anyone in vetiver handicraft making if the trainee can get to Thailand. Contact the Royal Development Projects Board.

guangxi

China - Poverty Reduction and Resource Protection in a Guangxi Province Minority Area. This is a community development project in south China, and is as initiative of the China Vetiver Network, funded partly by the EU. The project includes soil and water conservation measures using the Vetiver System, fruit tree planting, water supplies, and vetiver handicraft production. The report (including photographs) summarises recent achievements and a demand for upscaling by other counties and townships in Guangxi Province.