“The training I received helped me to start helping my wife. When
I am working with her in the field, not only do labour costs decrease
but my wife is proud of my presence and I manage to provide advice on
the organization of our work.”
These inter-household improvements in relations between the family
members are definitely a key result of the PIP approach. Good relations
and understanding within a household foster social resilience and are
the basis for developing all kind of activities together. In that sense
the following testimony of a 25-year old lady from the third generation
of PIP farmers expresses clearly what the process of PIP creation is
able to do: