SUNfarming

30
Sep

SABC Video News: SUNfarming Vitality Porridge Training Project – Helping People Help Themselves

The Vitality Porridge Project offers immediate help against hunger and at the same time sustainable help for self-help via certified training courses in vegetable cultivation and healthy nutrition for the local population. So far, over 40 schools with over 16,000 students and at least 60,000 family members are participating in the project.

Labour is needed for production in the food industry. Accredited Agri-SETA trainers in organic vegetable production, provided by SUNfarming South Africa, take over the training of these workers. In this way, additional new jobs are created locally. Our trainees are much better equipped to find work in agriculture after completing our trainings.
300 unemployed people are trained in the training programme. For the top 60, the project offers further training on the farm property provided by SUNfarming in Potchefstroom. As licensed SUNfarming franchisers, a large number of them will help to supply supermarkets with organic vegetables and herbs.

As an emergency aid, Vitality Porridge is distributed to school children as a daily vitamin- and nutrient-rich supplement to their school lunch during the project period. In addition, the children receive a 5 kg bag to take home to their families. As there are often not enough plates in the schools, Vitality Porridge can also be distributed and drunk more diluted as a milkshake. The children love it all the more this way, because it tastes like a vanilla shake, they say.
The course participants can also take home a 5kg bag of Vitality Porridge. The school programmes supported by KfW/DEG aim to tackle malnutrition, one of the biggest development problems in African countries, at its root. Children are empowered directly at school and teachers are trained to pass on the knowledge they have gained about the essential importance of healthy food to the children. Through training and education directly in the production facilities and in cooperation with the church communities, jobs and sustainable future prospects are also created for the people in Africa.

"We would like to expressly thank all project partners without whose support we would not have been able to realise the emergency food aid and training programmes in the Vitality Porridge Project," Peter Schrum continues.

SUNfarming Vitality Porridge Project in South Africa is a PPP project and is funded by KfW/DEG. The project is supported in its organisation by develoPPP, Skills for All, german cooperation, F.E.E.D. (Food-Energy-Education-Development e.V.).


You can find all information at www.feed-ev.de or contact our Edith Brasche, Vice-President FEED e.V..

8
Feb

FEED sustainable development projects more important than ever in South Africa

Vitality Porridge in the fight against malnutrition and diseases, agri-trainings to produce healthy food themselves and create jobs

FEED President Peter Schrum and Vice President Edith Brasche visited FEED projects in the Potchefstroom region in November and met other new partners to expand sustainable development aid in the Potchefstroom region and beyond.For more information, visit FEED.

27
Dec

1000 horticultural courses and 15 vegetable school gardens in 2021

Our training and food aid project in South Africa appears to be particularly valuable and important to us this year. Pictures often say more than words. Take five minutes to watch two very impressive project videos.



„Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Let us all come back together in 2022 and keep on changing people´s lives.“ wishes Melanie Jooste, Team Leader SUNfarming South Africa.
The whole SUNfarming team agrees with this wish.

29
May

SUNfarming at the Intersolar in Munich

SUNfarming at the Intersolar in Munich, 20 to 22/06/2018

SUNfarming will once again be represented at the world's leading trade fair for the solar industry this year. Visit us in Hall A3, Stand A3.490 and learn more about our latest projects and our commitment worldwide.

For ecological reasons, we have decided to waive postal invitations in the future. For visitors of our stand: You are hereby cordially invited to report to Mrs. Anja Wölfling and to arrange an appointment. We will gladly send you an entrance ticket for the visit of the fair:
+49 (0)3362 8859 166
a.woelfling(at)sunfarming.de

We would like to talk to you about the following topics:

SUNfarming as project-developer and invest-controller for capital investors and banks
We have already successfully realized projects for more than 500 MW of capacity, 115 MW as own PV investments.
280 MW in service and maintenance
7% more yield on all SUNfarming plants (average yield compared to yield reports audited by ING.-Büro JERA)

SUNfarming solar energy for municipalities and commercials
0 % investment costs
10 % electricity cost savings (minimum) in the first 10 years (SF own electricity concept)
100 % CO2 savings

SUNfarming Food & Energy Projects
Based on our own development, the unique SUNfarming agro-solar greenhouses deliver education + jobs + food production + energy security where they are currently needed.
Last year we won the Intersolar Award in the category Outstanding Solar Projects with our unique project "SUNfarming Food & Energy Training Project".
This year, Food & Energy was vote as one of the TOP3 finalists for the GreenTec Award 2018 by an independent jury. Experience our project live!

SUNfarming International

We present project from Turkey, Poland and Africa

SUNfarming Solar-Training-Centres in Peru and South Africa

More than 1000Trainees until 2017 in South Africa, 40 trainees in Peru since project start in 2015
Our commitment does not end with support.

We speak your language: German, English, Turkish, Spanish

We are looking forward to your visit.

Your SUNfarming Team

7
Feb

Two more photovoltaic power plants for climate protection

Two more photovoltaic power plants for climate protection

More than 11 million kilowatt hours of electricity are produced by the two solar parks with a total capacity of 6.64 megawatts a year. The Co2 savings are around 8,300 tonnes annually.
3,358 kWp were completed in the Aegean province of Denizli and 3,279 kWp in the Anatolian province of Kayseri. The major projects were implemented by SUNfarming Eurasia. Commissioning took place in December 2017.
Denizli has about 1 million inhabitants. The province is located about 200 km from the Turkish Aegean coast and is known for its healing waters and thermal baths. The economy of the region consists mainly of the textile industry and winegrowing. The project was developed by the SUNfarming Eurasia team, the property with 69.100m2 is the property of SUNfarming Eurasia.
Kayseri is located about 280 km south-east of the capital Ankara and has about 1.2 million inhabitants.
Develi, a suburb of Kayseri, has about 60,000 inhabitants and lies behind the Erciyes Mountains. The land was leased to 30 years, with a 10-year extension option.
With solar radiation of around 1,600 kWh / kWp in Kayseri and 1,660 kWh / kWp in Denizli, both regions offer the best solar yield for the production of renewable energy and make a global contribution to climate protection.

29
Mar

International Green Week 2017

SUNfarming in agri-political dialogue with politicians from home and abroad at the world's largest Agricultural fair in Berlin

This year, SUNfarming presented itself as a partner, together with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Development (BMZ), to the 400,000 trade fair visitors.
The general interest in SUNfarming as a project developer for capital investors as well as in the realization and active support of PV projects for commercial and private power plants was as always great. This year, we were able to successfully present our unique "Food & Energy" concept, a combination of solar energy production and food production. With the
experience of more than 1,000 hectares of solar projects implemented worldwide, SUNfarming developed the unique Food & Energy concept. In addition to the benefits of solar energy, the key elements are food production, job creation, training and water management. The SUNfarming "5 in 1" model contributes actively to the sustainable improvement of people's living conditions, particularly in resource-poor areas or refugee regions.

PDF-Link: "5 in 1" Food & Energy Concept

Federal Development Minister Gerd Müller, has put more support in the refugee policy for the countries of origin and was very interested in finding out more about our Food & Energy concept.
Hans-Joachim Fuchtel, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior, showed also great interest in cooperation in the area of Food & Energy as an approach to combating the causes of flight. There will also be concrete discussions on projects in the solar PV sector in developing and emerging countries.
The Minister of the Environment of Qatar and the Agricultural Minister of Mauritius took the opportunity to get information about possibilities of cooperating with our competent project leaders.
Madagascar's Embassy Adviser, the Ambassador of Guatemala and the Bolivian Ambassador, as well as a delegation from the Nigerian Embassy, were also interested guests.
Representing the Embassy of Paraguay, Mr Maidana, responsible for Economic Affairs, visited us and the embassy council of the Republic of El Salvador also got to know our stand.
The already implemented Food & Energy project in South Africa was presented by SUNfarming at the public event "A world without hunger is possible", a special initiative of the BMZ.