Knowledge resources and opportunities in
EcoAg Service
A non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of community based agriculture
Statement of Purpose and Aim
To promote the evolution of community based agricultural models with an emphasis on both ecological sustainability and economic viability.
- To recognize the "dynamic coherence between the spiritual and the practical requirements of life on earth"*
- To prepare individuals to become agents of change in the process of rebuilding agriculturally based communities.**
- To facilitate the evolution of agriculturally based Training Institutes, with adademic, trade and craft components dedicated to enhancing the quality of community life through service.
Current Services Provided by EcoAg
An apprenticeship program and information link between youth willing to work and a worldwide network of farmers and gardeners willing to share knowledge.
- Sponsorship of forums, workshops and research and projects to promote the understanding and application, in both urban and rural settings, of community building principles and methodology developed by the rural university model.**
- This website for the collection and dissemination of knowledge resources on ecological agriculture and information on current opportunities for paying "special regard"*** to agriculture.
*Universal House of Justice, Prospects for the Future, 1993.
**The rural university concept developed by the Fundacion para la Applicacion y Ensenanza de las Ciencias (FUNDAEC - the Foundation for the Application and Teaching of the Sciences) in Columbia, South America over the past 25 years, empowers communities to reconstruct themselves using grassroots initiatives that rely on consultation which adheres to the spiritual principles of the oneness of mankind and justice and which results in service to humanity.
*** Baha'u'llah,Tablets of Baha'u'llah, pp.89-90
PAGE LINKS WITHIN THIS SITE
Ben Levy Scholarship Application Form
Argument for Community Supported Agriculture based on the Baha'i Writings
Opportunities to pay "Special Regard" to Agriculture
Agriculture and the Reconstruction of the World | Agriculture and World Peace |
The Farmer and Community | |
Responsibilities of Baha'i Institutions | |
Material and Spiritual Civilization | |
Development and the Divine Economy | Economic Teachings |
Grassroots Development | |
Consultation | |
Village Storehouse / House of Finance | |
Contributions from Earnings | |
The Physical World | Man and Nature |
Man and Animals | |
Diet and Health |
The "Compilation from the Writings of Baha'u'llah and the Writings of 'Abdu'l-Baha on the subject of Nature" follows a letter from the Universal House of Justice addressing the"Gaia Hypothesis"
from Baha'i Academics Resource Area webpage
Newsletter SITES
Newsletters of the Agricultural Seminar of the Association of Baha'i Studies of North America
One Country.Newsletters of the Baha'i International Community
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