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Annual Report 2021 24 Global Development Group

Protecting the Environment

Leads to Relieving Poverty

The impacts of environmental degradation are felt most bee keeping and growing chillies to redirect elephants away
acutely by those most vulnerable; Global Development Group from human settlements.
recognises the value of protection and preservation of the
environment towards relieving poverty.
When a traditional boma is used, the livestock
In Zimbabwe, project J1022N Income Initiatives in
manure is collected and placed in the fields but a key
Mbale and Dete is dedicated to social and environmental
component lost is the urine containing the important
regeneration and achieving human wildlife co-existence. Using
soil-enriching nitrogen compounds. When a mobile
permaculture design and innovation, the project identifies
boma is placed over the crop field, cattle fertilise
solutions towards people and wildlife living side by side in a
the field directly with their urine and manure. Their
landscape of abundance. This is being achieved with mobile hooves break up the surface of the soil, both aerating
bomas (stockades), permaculture training, rocket stove training it and allowing the ‘fertiliser’ to soak in.
and development, co-herd and holistic training, programs to
The project has seen zero livestock lost to predators
assist in the co-habitation of humans and wildlife including
in over 3 years and over 30% increase in crop yields.
This, in turn, has resulted in the community being
open to a number of permaculture initiative being
introduced. The introduction of the Zero-Visibility
Mobile Boma, together with other projects, such as
Rocket Stoves is helping to take stress off the local
environment and enables beautiful native woodland
to regenerate.

Note the difference between the side of the field ‘treated’ with a
mobile boma (above) and the side that wasn’t ‘treated’ (below).

This man stands on the border between where
the field was and wasn’t ‘treated’ with a mobile
boma - look at the difference in growth!