hello to everyone so ladies
gentlemen and especially young people
thank you for being here I thank
also the organizers who break up who
invited me to this event it’s
good job my basic training I
you’re not hiding it because maybe
you saw that I’m an agronomist
after I did a doctorate at
the Catholic University of Louvain the
a very long time he is more than 30 years old
can work as a researcher in
the national system
after that I left the system
national to go to work in in
an international center that deals
from them arid countries
it is the international center of
agricultural research in the areas
dry
I tell you already the cactus is not
it’s not my job but it’s my
hobby is my hobby and I play again
to the animator when he tells you done
especially the things you like good I
I was interested him introduce you
what we could do with that close so
quite quickly and to come
it’s important to do what we love
if we start doing things we
does not it will be badly done with that i have
finished we can start
the title of
of my contribution and as my
transfer but the flag of misery
in a source of wealth
it’s a provocative title in the world
40% of the planet’s area and
arid you and I live in a
arid country in six arid countries the 40%
there are 2.5 million people who live
16% of these two viruses during its 2 5
millions of individuals are below the
poverty line
so where there is reality is there
Unfortunately, poverty future
it does not look glorious all
forecast in terms of changes
say we will be attending
a reduction in rainfall of 20
at 30%
we are in the area of 30% this
man who is in the pot next door
of me that’s a cactus for what
do not know it does not come from home
we his story goes too far alvin
Deco with the dock with the discovery
of the Americas and it was not until
1519 cortes in one of the expeditions
spanish in the islands and west indies
the caribbean currently he found
a weird plant and especially he has
found individuals from people who
picks up and insects on these plants
it was drying these insects the
grind and tubes and use them
like a dye and bring it back this
dye in spain in 1519 and he has
also brought the first cactus plan
and dissemination started
everywhere in China around 1700 in
india south africa etc
it is the sailors who made the
broadcast of his team so this
cactus why all the sailors and you
learned it at school was suffering from
scurvy which is a deficiency in
vitamin and the cactus and the very
rich in vitamins and keep it in
the holds of the boats and each time
that he was going down to a country he
was me a racket for when they
come back they can use it and the
consume that’s how the cactus
try to eliminate we have no cactus
who is native to us all they
come from mexico
so basically the story has
started with a color a story of
color is the perfect perfume red
raid
I advise you to read this book if
you do not find it what the story of
cactus is a story so worse
espionage and especially the search for
the color of desire this perfect red
that you see here that it is flat
there in this room is what you
you asked the question
what lipstick you use
they come from where they come from this
insect because this dye and
hypoallergenic
it is accepted by the oms as the
best columns all funds from
dyed that you use all that stuff
come from this insect
so this is important information
so you see the agro industry
the school juices the jams the
hues all that are based on this
red because makeup the perfect red I
goes pretty quickly then this
plant we talked about robustness and
broke free from resilience
the term resilience what is it
means it means being able to
fall on your knees and then get up and
continue the path and the cactus and a
of a resilient plant
and I want you young people that you
be resilient not discouraged
you can fail the first day
the first attempt the second the
third but continued resilience
it’s the term that needs resilience
saw cactus plants for three
years of drought
they are thought to be completely dead
then from the first rains
obs they resume without any problem
be happy what kind of plants like
this type of cacti I come back to my
environment stop my reinventing
that that young researcher was I
started this story in 1985 was
to find the plant that is capable of
push and produce in a
arid environment
if the merak end plant and with the
cactus I think it’s my candidate
favorite why because he is
easy to establish
you want a racket she pushes
no problem a long time
several years of decades there
produces fruits and many others
things and especially it’s green or not
he has many uses I’m going
give you some examples for the iss
to illustrate my point there is 1600
cash
do not believe that cactus insults
reads in what is happening there are
dozens of varieties
so it’s really a huge treasure
where is the cactus?
today essentially we are we in
rest of brazil where all the production
milk is based on the cactus
tunisia
six hundred thousand hectares so huge in Africa
from south to Algeria in Morocco so where
there is the reality is there the cactus
i’m going there from the south in 1993 it and to
in a city in mexico at the city of
so two and we were in a cafe
with a group of Italian researchers
Chilean Argentinean x intel
and we thought why we do not create
a network around the cactus the idea
was good we spoke to
different agencies with a lot of
lobbying and conviction and
tenacity the fao has sheltered us and
we created this network so to the cactus
since 1993 and it continues in 2000 on
elected me as the general coordinator
network and I did that for 14
years for 14 years I crisscrossed the
planet every continent I have them
visited to Australia what
Australia is forbidden to introduce
the cactus about twenty countries
have adhered to this network I have
am moved to train people for
show them all the benefits of this
cactus etc
the uses the apps you
see all the yellow dots that you
have there on the map
these are the countries where I introduced
this plant whose story began
in a cafe they are yours like that the
business is done outside the condors
arches is formal examples in
Mauritania in the city of nouakchott
we gave each family a
racket for them to make gardens
family
it’s great it works we live them
also in ethiopia in ethiopia i have a
history an ong
mam this format is for women
single single mothers
so we gave them donations
trained to transform the cactus and
sell the products and they live with
these are examples that I quote you
very quickly in india and pakistan
also we introduced with
difficulties in Pakistan because
often they get confused between the
like that is the plant so that the
people in hell consume and the waters
strong biya to the very good and caqueta his
it’s not things so it took them
to convince that we are talking about things
which are totally different
examples now of the history of
success peru south of peru in
the desert of memory of man we did not
not seen we did not see rain only
there is only a little water coming down
in the snow melt of the Andes
people have planted intensively
it’s not for fruit production
but for the production of this insect
of this red who all so of this red
carmine the racket
once attacked they make compost
that she injects again into the sand
turned them totally
nature
the cactus you know him all so
for cattle feed if I
gives you examples of tunisia from
brazil ethiopia et cetera
often it’s women’s work from
cut it into fries so into pieces and
to make things easier we made
machines here locally inconvenience to
contractors to cut to lighten
the workload in women and
children the fruit I succeed the king
fruit thank you football there is no better
that the cactus because the very rich
in antioxidants and vitamin C
it’s sugar etc and you have to treat it like
a whole fruit like the apple like the
pear and especially the packaging the
presentation this excerpt all that is
business opportunities
that’s business the names pallice
consumption of the discomfort of the
young racket people are laughing but
it is you it is you travel in
some countries like mexico by
example it is in the dishes of all
days we made salads did some
cooked dishes etc
it’s called being not the 2 c the
young rackets
see here it is a team of a market
so in mexico
we did the same thing in ethiopia
was in addition we trained them because
they do not know
used in the kitchen and they have
introduced young snowshoes into the
daily dish a restaurant a
famous restaurant and the bamboo in the
city of avesnes in cuba where all the menu
is based on cactus products and
I pass here al the value products
added high
he has it’s the domain now he
really have to pack the package because
there we can earn money I you
give some examples of products the
Racquet racket powder powder
there are a few mounted industries
easily drying in the sun in
using it is a product that very
asked me I get all the time
or emails do I
supply me at the edge of the
snowshoe skin and snowshoes
put into capsules is used for for
treat or else to clear the
level of diabetes or else for
improve transit etc
it’s a product that is very
market this is the skin of the
request
I can not see it
examples of commercial products
there was a society in tunisia that
worked on that I spend them
liqueurs the juices of the wines from
cactus ben are full of them the fact of
to move in the supermarket and
you’ll see
and every time you see a
flag you see the origin so of
products tunisia mic and mexico
the united states and morocco
the oil so glitches that is selling
currently at $ 700 per liter
so this is really a time we have in
tunisia a company or two that make
that and it works
[Music]
good this is examples of prices of
oils in the world
medicinal applications to two
words about medicinal applications
in fashion here so I have the indians
it was used all the time by
example for injuries as a
poultice those known even from us
also recognized there are teams of
search a team in italy a
team in argentina a team at
united states and a team to nine in
germany now i’m working on
medicinal applications a wide
a wide range so two words if
you want to be treated with the
cactus whether it’s the fruit or the
snowshoe but basically there I
you quote one or two examples the
ulcer treatment
it’s an Italian find you
consume the racket only that that
you will avoid the ollières
hyperglycemia also it’s it’s a
flow the Americans showed up with
tests performed in clinics
so in humans that we can
control we can we can block the
cancer of the cervix by
extracts so got from the
racket and so on it’s a
world
this is a huge area an example that
I always liked that in southern Morocco
south so agadir a cooperative of
women of 150 women recovered
set and alfort alpha juice bricks
jam etc
they support 150 families and
it’s very innovative it’s very very
encouraging
there is also next to them so the
keep and for Morocco it’s a
policy
they installed for the first time
at the level of the world
a cac topol on 25 hectares where the
industries research it all
together for the promotion of four
chips the gift the frame 2 of the plan morocco
green
15 cooperative were financed for
processing of catus products
and do you say a thing made of
lobbying so you have the power
politics behind you that can go
wanted to convince successful gives you
an example
the king of morocco who inaugurates a
planting cactus if you’re at war who
does not move often but he had
17 years old he gave a boost so everyone
promoters and industrialists thank you
a lot
[Applause]
”
Be First to Comment