Today was a field day. Visits to a couple of villages who have been facing the same problems as the village I mentioned the other day. These villages though have managed to gain at least partial security and have also been able to use farming techniques like agroforestry to improve their income and improve the local environment. Here's a farmer showing us how to make rope out of bamboo by slicing it lengthwise in increasingly thinner strips. He took one strip of bamboo and split it probably 4 or 6 times to get the right dimensions. The machete skills involved were quite impressive. I asked him when he started using a machete. Six or seven years old apparently.