Dear Nangu community, it’s been a few weeks since our last update. Many things have happened and we are excited to give you a short update on the main events. We are now concluding our second cycle of the roadmap. We decided to prioritize the creation of the first

It is time to share another Nangu update! I hope that you are all doing well and that you are healthy. As I am writing this from my home-office in Amsterdam, today will be a super warm day here, 27°C ☀️, I am looking forward to enjoying some of the

Welcome to another episode of “This week in Nangu” 🤗. To kick things off, here is an update on our social media statistics. As of today, 433 people have joined us on Facebook and 70 people are part of our Instagram community. Welcome, if you have recently joined us on our

Welcome to our weekly update! We’re now in the middle of May and first of all hope that you are well! At Nangu, we currently work fully distributed with Francisco based in Costa Rica, Ruben in France and Nikolai in The Netherlands. Because of Covid, there are things we

Costa Rica has a longstanding tradition of achieving outstanding accomplishments in environmental, social and economic issues.  Although there are many reasons to admire Costa Rica for these, the country has enormous debts with the “green and happy country” image that it sells to the world, specially around agriculture and poverty.

Welcome to the first post of “This week in Nangu”. The goal of this and future posts is to give you a transparent view of what is happening on our journey towards the first Nangu village in Costa Rica. So let me share what happened this week. This week, we

In an apparently endless monocrop dessert in Thailand there is a visionary group of communities that woke up to the destruction of their forests and took action to save them from loggers. Decades later these cherished forests provide abundant seasonal harvests of wild products to the villagers and are the

A look into Navdanya, an Indian organization that fights for seed diversity conservation, farmers’ rights, ecological farming practices and women empowerment. Lead by the notorious Dr. Vandana Shiva they focus on education, research, activism, soil science, fair trade and community support. The article explores the workings of their three organizational

An overview of three self directed learning organizations lead by the activist and thought leader Manish Jain. Inspired by Gandhi’s vision of Swaraj for an autonomous society, these organizations are living experiments on self determination, empowerment, gift economy and community. During a visit to Udaipur, Rajasthan I had the

Life on Earth is dying and our food systems are largely responsible. Industrial food production has devastating effects on our climate, our ecosystems, our health and our communities. Nangu reimagines our food system in a way that supports local communities, grows new ecosystems and protects existing ones. Using regenerative farming,

Many years ago I saw a TED talk by Willie Smits telling the story of How to restore a rainforest on severely degraded land in Borneo. The forest became a sanctuary for orangutans and the home for thousands of people who found employment in harmony with nature. They changed the