The hemp and cannabis industries present a plethora of opportunities across various sectors. From agriculture to healthcare, these industries offer potential for economic growth, innovation, and societal benefit.
Albertus Louw, the director of Abundant Village’s global impact programme, is renowned for creating a hemp home with unique, self-sustaining architecture. In this podcast, he is joined by HempoSapiens co-founder Phivo Artemides, who offers insightful viewpoints on promoting sustainable socio-economic integration in South Africa’s rural agricultural communities.
Creating green eco-friendly systems
Louw is passionate about using hemp to help South Africa’s rural areas. He wants to use it to make sure farming communities can thrive and be more eco-friendly, even when the climate is tough.
He makes an example of proudly building a hemp house right here in Mzansi. “It’s been a journey for a long time to look at natural green building systems and to see how I can have less of a negative footprint but [also] more of a positive environmental footprint,” Louw says.
Meanwhile, Artemides says the current project that they are working on at Abundant Village looks at creating community upliftment, with the community and for the community in a sustainable way.
“A greater holistic approach is about finding out what the local needs are, the local challenges and building sustainable systems that they can create themselves with us,” Artemides explains.
In this episode, they also discuss:
- Sharing success stories in hemp and cannabis cultivation;
- Mzansi hemp consumers and more
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