Vertical - Economy

Lack of investment has led to fuel and power shortages, particularly in the rural areas, meaning that villages can’t pump water from sources to where it is needed, which directly impacts
food and health; water is the source of life. Lack of investment also means lack of potable water, impacting health. Lack of cash  Lack of cash crops, due to lack of water, means less or no raw materials for industry thus impacting economy. Lack of available reusable fuel sources affects the ecology directly as villagers cut down trees, copses, shrubs and other plants in order to be able to cook. i.e. deforestation.
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IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA,ECONOMIC GROWTH FROM AGRICULTURE IS 11 TIMES MORE EFFECTIVE AT REDUCING EXTREME POVERTY THAN ANY OTHER SECTOR.

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  • Crops For Domestic & Export Markets.
  • Carbon Credits.
  • Products for Exports.
  • Products from the programme re-used in other parts of the Programme. cycle of supply and demand resulting in export products.
  • Foreign Exchange.
  • AoteA intends, and has agreement with partners, to bring Programme component manufacture from Asia into Africa resulting in factories, employment andexports.

“SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, HOME TO MORE THAN 1 BILLION PEOPLE, HALF OF WHOM WILL BE UNDER 25 YEARS OLD BY 2050, IS A DIVERSE CONTINENT OFFERING HUMAN AND NATURAL RESOURCES THAT HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO YIELD INCLUSIVE GROWTH AND ERADICATE POVERTY IN THE REGION. – WORLD BANK”

Some of the components that that AoteA is utilising to aid Economic Security"

  • Aotea Eco Pumps – Fuel/Power free 24×7 water delivery.
  • Water efficiency and storage (drip feed, catchment).
  • Rural revitalisation (smallholder in a box) for multiple cash crops & growing seasons.
  • Industrial Hemp for oil, fibre & 25,000+ products.
  • Hemp fibre to revitalise Textile Industries.
  • Hemp based carbon negative building materials.
  • Increased agricultural yields boost exports.

The Economic problems directly affect:

Ecology

  • De-forestation as wood is cut down to feed fires for cooking.
  • Industries such as tobacco curing exasperate de-forestation as they use locally sourced wood as fuel.
  • Soil degradation due to mono-crop culture as there is generally only a single growing season per year, used for food.

Health Security

  • Mono-crops reduce food variety leading to lower disease resistance.
  • Poor availability of fresh water for washing.
  • Lack of potable potable water for drinking and cooking, cholera, typhoid, digestives issues.
  • Soil depletion reduces food quality leading to poor nutrition and disease resistance.
  • No control of mosquitoes leading to dengue and malaria.

Food Security

  • Most water delivery systems require fuel or electricity to take water over a distance from a river or bore; the lack of accessible fuel or electricity means that most small holders rely upon rain alone for irrigation. This results in only a single crop per year generally for sustenance only,
  • Environments with poor economy often lack abundant fertilises and suffer from soil deprivation.

AoteA Programmes that directly improve Economic Security:

Rural Revitalisation

Everything starts with providing water to villages and unused land to increase food and health security, as well as cash crops. .

Industrial Hemp and Kenath

As well as carbon credits, these crops improve soil conditions, provide a fuel source to reduce deforestation and off-take materials and products.

Water Hyacynth

This invasive weed is a huge problem in waterways and to aquatic ecologies, but it can be rendered into soil improving products and fuel replacements.

Interconnected Business Revitalisation

Each programme provides raw materials which can be utilised by local industries to provide products for those programmes to consume but also cash products for export; all programmes are inter0related and supportive of each other ensuring cash flow and exports.