Water~Organic Farming?

Ling KONG Nov. 2009

Part I - Water

• About 70% of the Earth surface is covered with water, and the human body is made up of over 70% water. Only 0.03% of the Earth's water is freshwater.

• 老子说：上善若水，水善利万物而不争。

I’ve got peace like a river

• I’ve got peace like a river, I’ve got peace like a river, I’ve got peace like a river in my soul .(2x)

• I’ve got love like an ocean, I’ve got love like an ocean, I’ve got love like an ocean in my soul.(2x)

• I’ve got joy like a fountain, I’ve got joy like a fountain, I’ve got joy like a fountain in my soul .(2x)

Yangtze River

Waterhead

• Badeng lamu Holy Cave and the waterfall, Muli Tibetan, Sichuan• GPS: N27°57′50.1″E100°44′ 51.6″A 3143m

Waterhead

• Xiannairi snow maintain,Yading, Daocheng, Muli Tibetan, Sichuan

Waterhead

• A pray wheel in xinlong,Garze Tibetan, Sichuan• GPS: N31°15′07.1″E100°18′ 34.3″A 3176m

Waterhead• The Butter water in Bamei village,

Daofu, Garze Tibetan Sichuan• GPS:N30°32′40.3″E101°32′ 27.1″A 4184mThe legend of this spring tells of a very

poor peasant woman who was herding sheep with her young son (he later became the 11th Dalai Lama) and she was starving. Her son pointed to some water trickling out of the side of a hill. He said, “Mother, drink this water it will give you strength.” She dismissed him, but he insisted. She drank some of the water, and it did indeed make her feel as if she had eaten. Located near the Hui Yuan Temple, an hour’s drive from Ba Mei, this spring has been named the butter water in homage to the Tibetan national beverage, Yak butter tea.

Yangtze river watershed

Water pollution-upper stream

• A monastery in Litang,Garze Tibetan,Sichuan• GPS: N29°28′29.9″E100°13′ 13.7″A 4184m

Water pollution-midstream Yalong jiang river

Domestic wastewater flows into Yalong jiang river directly in Dege Town, Garze Tibetan,Sichuan

GPS: N31°19′45.0″E099°06′ 36.3″A 2982m

Water pollution-midstream Yalong jiang river

Daofu County of the Garze Tibetan and Yalong jiang riverGPS: N30°31′17.1″E101°27′ 11.3″A 3399m

Water pollution-midstream

The minings ,dams, roads and bridges buliding along Yalong jiang river

Water pollution-midstream Yalong jiang river

• The pray flags along the rivers and a nunnery on a holy mountain, Duojipamu.

• GPS: N31°41′22.5″E099°39′ 31.8″A 3658m

Water pollution-midstream Dadu river

• Dengchun Valley and the ditch for domestic wastewater in Yamen Village,Xiaojin, Aba Tibetan,Sichuan

Water pollution-midstream Dadu river

• Dadu river and the garbages at the riverside, Aba Tibetan,Sichuan

Funan river in Chengdu to Min Jiang

Yangtze river Delta

Eutrophication-water bloom at Lake Taihu,Jiangsu

Water pollution-downstream Yangtze river

Garbages at Shanghai Chongming Dongtan Wetland

http://www.dongtan.cn/

Eutrophication-water bloom at Dianchi Lake,Kunming

Eutrophication-redtide in Xiamen

Wastewater in Guangzhou Science park &Yuenlang,Hongkong

Part II –Ecosolutions for pollutions

• Welands: constructed wetlands and• natrual wetlands Sustainalbe

agriculture&organic farming• Compost Toilets• Biogas-organic fertilizer

Constructed Wetlands-SCNU

Constructed Wetlands -Anlong village in Pixian

Constructed Wetlands -Flowforms

Constructed Wetlands-the Living water park,chengdu

Chong ming dongtan wetlands

Hongkong wetland park

Natrual wetlands-Caohai, Lugu Lake

Natrual wetlands-Muli

Water & Farming

• Dujiangyan and the ditch in the farmland in Pixian

Farm Painting-shimaisui

Why Organic farming?

• Definition While there’s no formal or universal definition for organic farming, it

can be defined as one or more systems of production which don’t use synthetic fertilizers, man-made pesticides, herbicides, growth regulators, antibiotics, hormone stimulants and/or livestock feed additives to grow crops and raise animals.

Organic farming in and of itself differs greatly from conventional farming in a number of ways. Virtually all Organic Farmers who grow crops prefer to use renewable resources and recycling to return what most conventional farmers would consider waste, back to the soil as mother nature intended.

More importantly, Organic Farmer’s use numerous techniques to promote life within existing ecosystems and minimize pollution that occurs with virtually all conventional farming practices.

Organic farming

• Organic farming is a system which:• Improves the structure, fertility, and health of the soil while

enhancing the surrounding environment • Produces quality agricultural and livestock products, true to species,

with high nutritional value • Avoids pollution resulting from agriculture • Minimises the use of non-renewable resources • Increases biodiversity • Works towards being a closed system anic?

Food Pyramid in China

Organic food

Green food

Pollution-free food

Organic agriculture

• Organic agriculture is a production system that sustains the health of soils, ecosystems and people. It relies on ecological processes, biodiversity and cycles adapted to local conditions, rather than the use of inputs with adverse effects. Organic agriculture combines tradition, innovation and science to benefit the shared environment and promote fair relationships and a good quality of life for all involved.

• After a two year consultative process, in September 2005 in Adelaide, Australia the General Assembly of IFOAM adopted the Principles of organic Agriculture which are the fundamentals of Organic Agriculture: health, ecology, care and fairness.

Organic Certification • IFOAM: International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements

the Organic Guarantee System (OGS) • WWOOF: World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms • Israel: Israel Bio Organic Agriculture Association (IBOAA) “Kibbutz

Movement -Zion movement”• US:National Organic Program (NOP) &CCOF• Australia:Australian Certified Organic (ACO )

Organic Certification-China

• 中绿华夏有机食品认证中心• 南京国环有机产品认证中心• 香港中绿中国有机认证

Part III Organic Market &Case Study

• Retail system: supermarket• Community supported agriculture(CSA)• Community Supported Agriculture consists of a community of

individuals who pledge support to a farm operation so that the farmland becomes, either legally or spiritually, the community's farm, with the growers and consumers providing mutual support and sharing the risks and benefits of food production.

• CSAs are frequently formed by farmers, but a number have been formed by consumers. CSAs offer opportunities for people to meet in a different way and address important community issues. Some CSAs make sure that the CSA initiative does not exclude low-income families through its pricing policies.

CSA-Beijing Xiaomaolv farm with Shiyan &Wentie jun

CSA-Chengdu PCD &CURASustainable agriculture in Anlong village, Pixian

CSA-Organic farm in chengdu Guoyuan xiangzhu, owner-Luoyu

CSA-Organic farm in chengdu Guoyuan xiangzhu, owner-Luoyu

CSA-ShanghaiCenbu ecofarm garden, Cenbu,village,Qingpu

CSA-Organic farming training at Yuenlang, HK

CSA-Organic farm at Yuenlang, HK

CSA-Organic farm at Yuenlang, HK

Faith likes potatoes- a movie on the real story of a farmer -Angus Buchan in South Afica

An efram in Shapu Fengling HK

Organic Farms in Schools –WWF&Shanghai oasisOrganic farm summer camp in Cenbu village,Shanghai

Organic Farms in Schools-Roots and shoots

East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL),Shanghai

Farms in Schools-Hubei Jinxing middle school in Ganchang,Gongan, Hubei

Conventional farms in Muli and Aba

Compost Toilets

Compost Toilets Chengdu

Compost Toilets Kunming

Compost Toilets-Brazil

keepers of the nature

• Lama Duojia-the keeper of snow mountain, Betsy Damon- keeper of the waters

The fate for Caterpillar Fungus?

Garbages collection-waterhead in Muli Monastery

Useful linksInternationalhttp://www.ifoam.orgwww.wwoof.org

Chinahttp://www.shorganic.com/http://www.jgi-shanghai.org/http://www.lohaocity.com/http://www.biofarm.cnhttp://www.lohasfamily.com.cnhttp://www.hofa.org.hk

NGOs with mehttp://www.keepersofthewaters.org/http://www.pcd.org.hk/eng/index.htmlhttp://www.rivers.org.cn

For job application:http://www.chinadevelopmentbrief.org.cnhttp://www.chinadevelopmentbrief.org.cn