Honorary prize – 2008
Mali
Seed of hope, a news brief for rural people in Mali
Tags: agriculture, local development, information, traditions, valorisation
«Seed of hope boosts the local information in rural areas; it strives to promote techniques which are effective in agriculture but which, unfortunately, are disappearing. One of them is the traditional way of preserving seeds. Seed of hope wants to restore these techniques.»
The saying that «Our land is not thirsty of its fighters’ blood; it needs, in contrary, the sweat of its people, defies the burden and difficulties of the daily struggle for life and invites people for hard working.»