SOIL - a SuSanA partner - wins first place in the UNCCD’s Land for Life Award and will receive $40,000 to support development of an integrated agricultural livelihood learning center and demonstration farm located near Cap-Haitian, Haiti.
Cap-Haitien, Haiti: – SOIL (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods), a leader in ecological sanitation, is proud to announce that they have won first prize in the UNCCD Land for Life Award 2012. The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) developed the Land for Life Award to recognize initiatives that help secure the health and productivity of soil for the well-being of present and future generations. Selection criteria for the Land for Life Award included outstanding sustainable land management practices, enhancement or regeneration of lands leading to improved soil health, fertility and yield, reduction or mitigation of land degradation and the negative effects of drought in the drylands and creative policy measures fostering sustainable land management, soil regeneration, or drought mitigation through soils enhancement. This was the first year the prize was awarded.

SOIL’s Uses Ecological Sanitation to Support Soil Regeneration and Improve Public Health:



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Congratulations to the SuSanA partner SOIL for winning this award!!

Read more about this award from UNCCD here on the UNCCD website:
www.unccd.int/en/media-center/MediaNews/...aspx?HighlightID=105

By the way, another SuSanA partner was mentioned in the awards:

So, well done to WAND as well!

Congrats to SOIL. Congrats to WAND too, for the "special mention" in the Land for Life. Re-using human waste for agriculture is the next breakthrough this century and beyond.

Great Job and keep this up...We are thus leading towards to sustainable future...