Sustainable Community Based Tourism

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Founding year

  • 2013

What we do

ASTCF (The Africa Sustainable Tourism Care Foundation) is a civil society organization that has been established in 2014. Founded with enormous support from the tourism industry in Uganda, it plays a key role in ensuring that Uganda’s tourism is sustainable, both in terms of concern for the environment and for the welfare of local communities.
Communities in Africa’s rural and marginalized areas are the custodians of most of the world’s natural and cultural treasures. The abundant and diverse natural, historical and cultural heritage resources that are available in many rural areas represent exciting tourism opportunities to stimulate direct and indirect jobs and other micro-economic activities. The appropriate development of these resources can create a range of social, economic and environmental benefits for rural individuals and communities.
Africa Sustainable Tourism Foundation (ASTCF) provides expertise and other consultancy services to assist village communities and entrepreneurs to identify and analyze their natural, historical and cultural heritage resources, and to develop them into appropriate, viable and sustainable new tourism attractions, facilities, services and experiences that will meet the needs and expectations of various market sectors.
These enterprises include craft market vendors, official tourist guides, juice pressers and fruit sellers, eco camps, horticulture initiatives, guest houses, small hotels and community associations – ASTCF is now supporting, training and representing over 100 members – individuals, small businesses, community organizations.

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2013
  • Started living together
  • Open to volunteers
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How to join

Volunteers will work with the ASTCF team to build the strength of the organization and train ASTCF staff to help them train local people. Volunteers will work to design simple training modules that ASTCF can use to build the capacity of its members. This will involve working directly with members to identify need and appropriate training modules. Your skills are needed to help make tourism an even greater force for good in Uganda – one of the poorest but also one of the friendliest countries in Africa.

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  • Uganda

Sustainable Community Based Tourism

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13 years ago

Learning from the Natural World (

Funds available for Europeans citizens and non-spanish! Registration Deadline 10 september- – Applycation Deadline for EU Funds – 17 September Applicants for this Course may apply for a Grundtvig Grant, please find the information below. OBJECTIVES To reflect on the development of European citizenship and identity, and the role that the natural world has within this framework; To discuss the notion of “nature rights” and the ecoCitizen To reflect on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech; to imagine the future of Europe and European citizenship To introduce the learning pedagogy and methodology of Paulo Freire: how can we bring the natural world into the learning environment? How can we create spaces that nurture learning for liberation? How can we facilitate experiential and participatory learning styles? To clarify how the lessons learned can impact on practice in the workplace METHODOLOGY The trainers will use a facilitative approach, eliciting the experience, knowledge and skills of the participants as a key resource throughout the course. An action-reflection cycle will be introduced. The pedagogy of Paulo Freire will be modelled as a participatory and experiential teaching/learning methodology. The collective skills and experiences of adult participants are a key resource in learning; Freire’s “listening survey” will inform the negotiated curriculum and “generative themes” (language and issues that have direct relevance and meaning for participants) will enhance meaningful learning. Freire distinguished between education for domestication (the “banking” concept, whereby adults are treated as empty vessels to be filled with knowledge by the expert teacher) and education for liberation, whereby facilitators and participants work together as problem-posers and problem-solvers, to create new knowledge rooted in their own collective experiences. Here at Sunseed we follow the same pedagogy, celebrating the crit
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10 years ago

Algo + Que la Roya Del Café

Al comenzar la cosecha de café en la Eco Aldea, nos percatamos que nuestros vecinos tienen poco o casi nada que cosechar. Sus parcelas están totalmente diezmadas. Si tradicionalmente Republica Dominicana era exportador de café, hoy su producción cubre solo un mes del consumo/anual, las importaciones representan el 92% de lo consumido Algunos, no muchos, comienzan a introducir nuevas variedades (sin conocer su origen ni comportamiento local), la mayoría se limitan a la añoranza de las pasadas bonanzas. La situación de descalabro de la caficultura Dominicana no debe exclusivamente atribuirse al nuevo brote de Roya que afecta las zonas cafetaleras. las zonas cafetaleras se encontraban deprimidas y abandonadas hace ya muchos años, practicándose una agricultura que podría definirse como “Extractiva” solo se acude al momento de la cosecha… Los bajos precios y rentabilidad negativa fortalecieron esa tendencia. La Roya, es una enfermedad transmitida por un hongo… que ha reaparecido en una nueva epidemia. Ya en 1869 se reporta una de las “primeras epidemias” de roya del café ocurrida en lo que hoy es Sri Lanca / La enfermedad fue observada por primera vez en África (1866) donde pasó desapercibida, por ser el sitio donde mayor diversidad ocurre Avelino, J. Rivas, G., (2013). Para el 2008 se informa de su presencia en Colombia y en el 2010 se reporta de la introducción de razas más virulentas de Roya en el país. Entre las posibles causas que determinan la epidemia: Se señalan: • Cambio climático • Vulnerabilidad de las variedades, dada su uniformidad (derivadas del C. Arábica) • Cepas del hongo más virulentas. • Inadecuadas /ausencia de prácticas agronómicas. entre otras… Las medidas adoptadas para enfrentar el brote epidemico de roya se han limitado a la introduccion de nuevas variedades y/o la aplicacion de fungicidas cupricos y sistemicos. Compartimos las propuestas de Graciela Godoy (2013) que ha sugerido colectar esporas del hongo en

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