1. Regen AG as gateway to Rural Development
   1. Ecosystem approach
      1. Context
         1. Syrian desert - food/water/energy nexus
            1. Floods
            2. Climate adaptation
      2. entry point
         1. Rural recovery (UNDP term)
      3. Agro-ecological
   2. Compare to conventional/chemical ag projections
   3. R & D potentials
      1. Plants, animals with a promising future
   4. Livelihoods opportunities
      1. Biochar/wood vinegar
         1. Localized Mineral/amendment admixes
      2. Biomass hunting and conversion
         1. Composting
            1. Bacterial
            2. Fungal
         2. Woody
         3. Green
            1. water hyacinth
            2. clean up nutrient leaching
            3. "invasives"
      3. Seed collecting
      4. Sun-drive solar
         1. Manufacturing
      5. Housing construction - natural building - heating climate ready
      6. Other equipment
         1. ex. Broadfork
   5. Small Farm Future
      1. Calories
      2. Marketing/education
      3. Braided, simple/complex robust supply systems
      4. Elimination of fossil fuels for transportation and fertility/pumping
   6. ERC
      1. Platoon scale temporarty assemblies
         1. Pulsed labor inputs for transformation
         2. With training + qualifications
         3. Convivial, community building
         4. A movement
2. Training/ exposure to new thinking approach
   1. Online (necessitated by pandemic)
      1. Opens opporunites
         1. cast the net wide
            1. gather
            2. condense
            3. distribute
            4. Find pinoeer recpetors
            5. 6%?
            6. Development as experimenting cohort
            7. contextualization
            8. adaptation
            9. independent suite of external tech support agents
            10. localized handbook & training cascade
            11. Further training
            12. technical aspects
            13. how to do action learning
            14. includes previously unknown agents
            15. requires active & supported leadership
         2. extended time-line
      2. Embraced by team as in "the problem is the solution'
         1. decentralized delivery for relatively low cost
      3. Taquasim
         1. learners review pathway at intervals and direct future offerings
            1. relevance
            2. learners co-create
            3. participatory energy