Pierre Rabhi
Pierre Rabhi (* 1938 in Kenadsa , Algeria ) is a French writer , farmer and environmentalist , inventor of the concept " Oasis en tous lieux " - " Oases in all places".
He propagates a model of society in which people and the environment are the focus and should be respected and practices an agriculture that supports the "natural balance of the environment". He develops projects for countries suffering from water shortages and drought. Among other things, the fable of the hummingbird made him famous. In 2006 he founded the "Kolibri-Movement" (Mouvement Colibris) together with Cyril Dion .
life and work
Youth in Algeria
Pierre Rabhi was born in Kenadsa in southern Algeria in 1938. His mother died when he was four years old. His father, a blacksmith, musician and poet, sent him to French and Islamic schools and entrusted his son to a French couple, an engineer and a teacher, who worked in the village. Thus, Pierre Rabhi grew up with both a European-Catholic and an Islamic culture: at the age of 16, to the annoyance of his father, he decided to convert to Christianity .
When the Algerian War broke out in 1954, he found himself in a delicate situation: his father no longer accepted him and his “ adoptive father ” had thrown him out of the house because of a conflict - he moved to Paris.
In France
In France he works in a factory where he met his future wife Michèle. Neither of them wanted to live in the city forever and saw their future in agriculture. The meeting with Pierre Richard , doctor and visionary ecologist , who at that time was working on the creation of a national park in the Cevennes , motivated them to realize their project: They moved to the Ardèche department and finally settled there in 1960. Pierre Rabhi turned to a Maison familiale rurale and completed a diploma course in agriculture. After three years as a farm worker, he went into business for himself to do biodynamic agriculture .
Work in developing countries and with international organizations
In 1978 he became responsible for the " Agroecology " course at CEFRA ( Center d'études et de formation rurales appliquées , Center for Studies and Applied Rural Education ) . In 1981 he traveled to Africa at the request of the African state of Burkina Faso and supported by the CRIAD ( Center de relations internationales entre agriculteurs pour le développement , Center for international relations between farmers for development ), where he was involved in the “Farmer Without Borders” campaign; In 1985, with the help of the Le Point Mulhouse association, he set up a training facility for agroecology in Gorom-Gorom .
In 1988 he founded the CIEPAD ( Carrefour international d'échanges de pratiques appliquées au développement , Center for International Applied Development Practices ). He carried out various projects such as training courses and awareness campaigns and organized development projects in Morocco , Palestine , Algeria , Tunisia , Senegal , Togo , Benin , Mauritania , Poland and the Ukraine .
Since 1994 he has campaigned for the Oasis en tous lieux movement , for a return to the “mother earth” and for the organizations of a social network. In 1997 and 1998 he intervened at the request of the UN in connection with its Convention to Combat Desertification and was asked to make specific proposals.
In 1999 and 2001 new development projects were launched in Niger ( Agadez region ) and Mali ( Gao region ). In 2003 he founded the agro-ecological association Les Amanins with Michel Valentin , which is actively committed to ecological agriculture , education and the construction sector. The question "What kind of planet will we leave behind for our children, which children will we leave behind the planet?" Is the guiding principle of the association.
Pierre Rabhi regularly organizes conferences and workshops on the subjects of stunting and “ simple living ”. He was invited to speak by the European Social Forum . In 2007 he founded the "Movement for the Earth and Humanism" ( Mouvemenent pour la Terre et l'Humanisme , also "Colibris").
Fonts
- Happy frugality , Matthes & Seitz Berlin 2015 (also as an ebook ) (French. Original edition: Vers la Sobriété Heureuse . Actes Sud. April 2010.)
- You Sahara aux Cévennes ou la reconquête du songe (autobiography), Éditions de Candide, Lavilledieu, 1983, rééd. Albin Michel, Paris, 1995, rééd sous le titre Du Sahara aux Cévennes: itinéraire d'un homme au service de la Terre-Mère , Albin Michel, Paris 2002.
- Le Gardien du Feu (roman), Éditions de Candide, Lavilledieu, 1986, Éditions Albin Michel, Paris 2003.
- L'Offrande au crépuscule (Prix des sciences sociales agricoles du ministère de l'Agriculture), Éditions de Candide, Lavilledieu, 1989, rééd. aux éditions L'Harmattan 2001.
- Le Recours à la terre (recueil d'articles), Éditions Terre du Ciel, Lyon 1995, nouvelle éd. augm. 1999.
- Parole de Terre: une initiation africaine , Éditions Albin Michel, Paris 1996 (préface de Yehudi Menuhin ).
- Manifeste pour des Oasis en tous lieux , ouvrage collectif sous la direction de Pierre Rabhi, 1997.
- Le Chant de la Terre interview par Jean-Pierre et Rachel Cartier, Editions La Table Ronde, Paris 2002
- Graines de possibles, regards croisés sur l'écologie avec Nicolas Hulot, Ed Calmann-Lévy, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-7021-3589-7
- Conscience et environnement , Éditions du Relié, Gordes 2006.
- La part du colibri , l'espèce humaine face à son devenir, Editions de l'aube, 2006 (témoignage au festival du livre de Mouans-Sartoux en 2005).
- Ecologie et spiritualité , collectif, Paris, Albin Michel, 2006. Avec entre autres, Jacques Brosse, André Comte-Sponville, Eugen Drewermann , Albert Jacquard, Jacques Lacarrière, Théodore Monod, Jean-Marie Pelt, Annick de Souzenelle…
- Préface de Alerte aux vivants et à ceux qui veulent le rester - Pour une renaissance agraire de Pierre Gevaert, éd Sang de la Terre, 2006.
- Terre-Mère, Homicide volontaire? Entretiens avec Jacques Olivier Durand, Le Navire en pleine ville, 2007.
- Manifeste pour la Terre et l'Humanisme , Pour une insurrection des consciences, Actes Sud, 2008.
- Préface de La stratégie du colibri , de Séverin Millet, Minerva, 2008.
- Le scénario Titanic, et autres métaphores écologiques… , de Hugues Gosset-Roux (Préface de Pierre Rabhi), Jouvence, 2008.
- Préface de Une seule Terre pour nourrir le Monde , de Florence Thinard, Gallimard Jeunesse, October 2009.
- Pierre Rabhi rédacteur en chef du numéro 77 de la revue Interdépendances . April 2010.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ colibris-lemouvement.org/oasis
- ↑ taz: Article - LMd. Retrieved August 11, 2018 .
- ↑ terre-humanisme.org
- ↑ colibris-lemouvement.org
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rabhi, Pierre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Algerian writer and environmentalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kenadsa |