Nienke Jorna
I'm Nienke, I'm a student mechanical engineering and I will do my project in Bondo, Kenya, about greenhouse farming at a local University.
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Cultural differences encountered in Bondo
Living and working in a different society and culture gave us new insights on cultural
differences. During our project, we had an intensive… -
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BIG: Impact Assessment
In terms of revenue- and cost streams, an assessment of the economic impact of our
business needs to be made. Besides this, as a social… -
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BIG: Reflection
The past three months have been a new experience for everyone. Not all of us had
experienced the African life before. The internship has… -
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BIG: Open House, The Official Opening of the Greenhouse and Course
To make the course official and to promote greenhouse farming, we organised an open
house. Mr. Achuti invited local farmers and we invited… -
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BIG: Raising awareness
We can have great ideas about our project, start a foundation, build a greenhouse and
develop a course, but without raising awareness this… -
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BIG foundation and the long term plan
Three months is a relatively short period to make major changes in a developing
country. Our group alone cannot make the difference. Sending… -
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Business model BIG foundation
Having constructed a greenhouse and developed the course, we started making plans
on how we could turn these efforts into a long lasting… -
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BIG: Constructing the greenhouse & the water harvesting system
With our course on greenhouse farming, we do not only want to increase the farmer’s
theoretical knowledge. We also want to give them… -
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BIG: Writing the course on greenhouse farming
As successors to the previous group of TU Delft students, the main activity for us was to
develop a course on greenhouse farming. Last year… -
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BIG: Mission & Vision
Mission
By offering suitable education and making new farming techniques accessible, our
mission is to enabling (potential) smallholder… -
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BIG: Field Research
The paper ‘Capacity Development for Entrepreneurial Smallholders in Western Kenya’,
was written last year by David and Umit, TU Delft… -
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BIG: Line of events
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BIG: Meet the team
Thanks to the help of these great people we were able to accomplish a lot more than we expected. Here follows a short introduction -
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Report of our progress in Bondo
With ideals in mind such as exploring new cultures, gaining entrepreneurial skills
and contributing to development, we stepped foot on the… -
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Kenya: Construct a greenhouse, start a course on greenhouse farming and write a businessmodel about greenhouse rental, Bondo
At Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology, in Bondo - Kenya, experiments and research have been conducted on the…