DESECH Carlos Olavo Rios • Bäckerweg 3, 24214 Bornstein • Germany Carlos Olavo Rios • Bäckerweg 3, 24214 Bornstein • Germany

+49 4346 412670 • carlos.rios@gmx.de

Project DH

Economic, Social, Ecological and Cultural Harmonic Development

Carlos Rios November 2011

Summary

A project to support a harmonic development that includes:

Human beings Nature Science

Set to combine: The developed European science The generous Brazilian nature The capable people from nordeste* With the objective of producing wealth in form of: Organic Food Renewable energy Ecological housing Education for the praxis Sustainable health Alive culture Income for the people in the region.

Wealth that remains in Rio Grande do Norte. O desenvolvimento econômico é : “…um processo de mudança social pelo qual um número crescente de neces-sidades humanas – preexistentes ou criadas pela própria mudança – são satisfeitas através de uma diferenciação no sistema produtivo decorrente da introdução de inovações tecnológicas.” (Celso Furtado, 1964).

The Company The DESECH is a non-profit organization. In this endeavor we support the social and economic development of the re-gion following ecological guidelines. The success of this project is measured in the elevation of the living stand-ards of the local sertanejos.

1. Agriculture Agriculture is the base of our venture. Water and Land, the elements that supported all civilizations in the past.

Water This project starts there, where life in our planet begun: The sea. We use reliable technology to transform, with little costs, salt water in drink-ing water. 500 to 1000 liters sweet water can be gained per day, using free and abun-dant solar energy.

Land We buy land in the sertão region from RN, near to the sea. An area of 100 to 200 km2 is planned for the start, with the vision of expand-ing soon.

Agriculture phase 1

Organic food. With plenty of water and land we can start producing a great variety of healthy organic food.

Agriculture phase 2 Natural fertilizers. In this phase we include natural compost made out of organic waste, from near by regions, processed sewage and worms. We can subsequently com-mercialize the compost overproduction.

Agriculture phase 3 Aquaponics. In this phase we grow vegetables in water fertilized by fish. The fish can be then consumed locally or sold in order to improve overall income. That’s also called vertical organic farming.

Agriculture phase 4 Animal Husbandry. In this phase we include farm animals for the production of milk and eggs and also as working animals. We won’t produce any kind of meat though.

Results Applying this production system we can offer organic high quality food for less than non organic conventional vegetables, eggs and milk, using less wa-ter and less renewable energy, no pesticides and chemical fertilizers, with a bigger return per square meter and producing overall less waste.

This system can then be multiplied and applied overall in the State of Rio Grande do Norte.

2. People People are the center of this concept. People profit the most of these ideas and realizations; people, on the other hand, take actively part in the whole process, otherwise nothing will grow out of it. The way to achieve our goals is to empower people to do what they anyway want: To grow, to realize themselves and have a good life, fulfilling their basic needs like food, shelter, socialization and health and the higher possibilities: Creativity, art, freedom, spirituality. My father used to say: To Nordestinos you do not give fish, this offends them. Nordestinos you can teach how to fish, so that they can keep their dignity and care alone for their own lives. We pay a minimum wage each and everyone that lives and works with us. We do not give anything for free. With the money they can buy and do what they want. So they feel their work respected and honored and have the freedom to decide for themselves what they want to do. The can buy their own food, from us or outside the farm. We sell everything to the workers for the cost price. Or they send money to relatives, or buy new clothes, whatever they want. In this way they are glad to have a well-paid work and are motivated. They feel empowered and start developing their abilities at their own pace.

Basic starter group We start with a small group, which helps implementing the basics of the new Fazenda: Water desalination system Cooking and needed implements, food First tents and houses, sleeping commodities

Electricity Sewage

And other modules. We calculate 50 people in this first group. We announce our offer in the region around the Fazenda and also in Natal and other bigger cities. Everybody that can contribute in the needed sectors is welcome.

Second group This group expands the basic modules above and initiates others:

Husbandry Housing Photovoltaic Transportation Etc

We calculate 200 people in this second group. This group grows with people coming from around the Fazenda and from bigger cities, attracted by the possibilities of having a paid job, house and food they can afford, and a community of people in a similar situation and with whom they share the same roots.

Core group The group builds the nucleus of the Fazenda Realização. This group grows with the enterprise. We expand the project vertically, letting the different modules develop and get bigger and horizontally, adding new ones. With enough people and the needed material means, we start thinking about: Marketing of our products: Salt Electric energy Potable Water Vegetables

And more Schools for kids

Medical care Ateliers for handcraft, music, painting etc

Sports Education for adults, learning simple professions like plumber, electri-cian, cowboy, farmer etc, in order to be free to start their own business somewhere else. This is a very important goal in our venture.

3. Energy In order to realize all our goals, we use renewable energy from the sun. With this cheap and abundant source of power, we are able to guaranty the living of the people in the Fazenda and to satisfy the needs of our production sec-tors: Organic agriculture, animal husbandry, bio fertilizer and potable water, besides being able of selling the energy itself. With the technical support of experts and high quality material from Germa-ny produce the necessary amount of energy that we need. Every house in the camp will have a solar roof, which delivers the needed electricity and more. The surplus will be integrated in the system, to satisfy other facilities. Besides that the panel parks positioned near the facilities around the camp that need more energy to minimize the distribution ways. Depending on where we settle down, we were able of supplying energy for low cost for small villages without electrical connection. Even with a over production, we do not waste energy and take care of using the warmth of the sun to cope with different demands like hot water for cooking.

What we need What we offer Administration Translation Lawyers

Marketing Management expert Tax advisor

Know-How for similar projects in Brazil

Land

Dry region Near to the sea 100 km2

Tourism Settlement possibilities

People Invitation Food Wages Transportation Housing Health care

Professionally educated workers

Housing Architect/Engineer Material Building

Know-How Eco Building Materials

Food Buying Cooking

Water Equipment Pipes system Quality control

Know-How Desalinization Water treatment Sewage/Hygiene

Agriculture

Water handling Agronomist Plants Fish Materials Aquaponics Organic Waste Worms

Organic food fresh Dry food Compote Fish! Fertilizers Know-How Cultivation Irrigation w. less water Aquaponics Natural Fertilizers Worms

Energy Photovoltaic materials Wind energy materials Expert

Eco-Energy Know-How Equipment

Marketing Market Packing Storage Transportation Export: Brazil/Overseas

Know How Experts Marketing products

Expert Support Administration Translation

Housing Marco Antonio Borsoi

Escritório de Arquitetura MA Borsoi Thomas Kampeter Wandgestaltung Curslacker Heerweg 20a 21039 Hamburg Deutschland

Desalination Prof. Dr. K. Schwarz Solar-Institut Jülich der FH Aachen Solar-Campus Jülich Heinrich-Mußmann-Str. 5 52428 Jülich

Water Treatment

Agriculture

Willem van Cotthem Honorary Professor University of Ghent (Belgium) Scientific Consultant for Desertification and Sustainable Develop-ment

Animal Husbandry

Energy Photovoltaic Dr. Thomas Kunz Leiter Technikum Alzenau Bayerische Zentrum für Angewandte Energieforschung e.V.

Marketing Rodrigo Rios Ana Rios

Why this project I feel myself the people in the Caatinga very connected. Not only because I myself am a Pau-de-Arara from Recife. My granddad, the Politician, journalist and lawyer Carlos Rios ,did his share for the people of Recife, and so did her oldest son Airon Rios, also politician, who fought in Brasilia for his region nordeste. My father, lawyer and professor for international law, worked for the poorest of the poor for no money until 1964, when, after the military coup took con-trol of Brazil, he had to move to Rio de Janeiro.

I, already in Rio, read at the age of 14 Graciliano Ramos and João Cabral de Me-lo Neto. I became the desire and the dream to give my contribution in trans-forming these vidas severinas, so secas, in a green, colorful vibrant, juicy lives. Since then, the seeds that this books placed inside my chest grow 35 years very slowly until I realized that we have NO reason not to do exactly that . Science is developed enough and gives us the means to do it, NOW.

We can collect the enormous wealth that the generous nature has ready for us, spread all around in the apparently dry and dead earth of our sertão and share it with the local people, with the Nordeste, with the whole Brazil. For that we only need some helping hands and hearts to make the connec-tions and empower the sertanejos to change their own lives.

O Luto no Sertão Pelo sertão não se tem como não se viver sempre enlutado; lá o luto não é de vestir, é de nascer com, luto nato. Sobe de dentro, tinge a pele de um fosco fulo: é quase raça; luto levado toda a vida e que a vida empoeira e desgasta. E mesmo o urubu que ali exerce, negro tão puro noutras praças, quando no sertão usa a batina negra-fouveiro, pardavasca. João Cabral de Melo Neto