Namo is a village in Fengshan County, Guangxi Province, inhabited by the Zhuang ethnic minority. PCD has been encouraging the villagers of Namo to conserve seeds of local heirloom crops to protect the biodiversity of their fields and for food security. On a sunny day in autumn last year (2016) and in the midst of lush green fields, Namo villagers celebrated the Bianmijie (a festival held when the rice crops haven’t finished growing, during which villagers use the time waiting to collect the harvest to conduct celebrations and courtship activities). (Angus Lam, PCD)
During the exchange activity, a farmer from Nandan County of Guangxi Province shows a kind of traditional sticky rice – broom sticky rice. (Angus Lam/PCD)
With PCD’s support, women in a Zhuang village in Fengshan County of Guangxi Province preserve the craft of producing traditional cloth with which they make traditional clothes for themselves and for sale, a move to explore sustainable living in the village. (PCD)
With PCD’s support, a Zhuang village in Fengshan County of Guangxi Province preserves the craft of producing traditional cloth with which they make traditional clothes. Children from a primary school also have their uniformed made from traditional cloth in traditional ethnic style. (PCD)
PCD supports and encourages the practice of ecological agriculture in a Zhuang village in Fengshan County of Guangxi Province. Livestock manure is used as ecological fertiliser by the farmers. (PCD)
PCD supports and encourages the the preservation of mountain folk songs in a Zhuang village in Fengshan County of Guangxi Province. Over 800 songs have been collected and written down in a songbook by the end of 2015. (PCD)
A farmer practices ecological farming through raising ducks in the paddy fields.
A farmer adopts natural farming methods to grow fruit trees. She is cutting weeds which are used to cover the field.
Promoting CSA through Farmers' market in Nanning, Guangxi.
Parents and children taking part in Affective Nature Education activities run by partner in Guangxi.
Namo villagers in Fengshan giving feedbacks to the evaluation team on a community project.
Farmers visited organic pomelo growing farm in a village in Guangxi.
Fengshan project team discussing traditional clothing design with local craft persons.
In Guangxi, PCD supports the conservation of local rice species and the introduction of new species, so as to diversify the species of rice.
Rice species improvement experiment in Nandan County, Guangxi Province.