OUR MALDIVES MATTER PROJECT
WORLD’S FIRST SELF-SUFFICIENT GREENHOUSE PROJECT IN A TROPICAL LOWLAND CLIMATE
Resilient Island enables farmers from Small Island Developing States to produce sustainable vegetables locally,
consequently reducing food import and improving food security.
Local Food Production
Aiming for a shorter food supply chain by cultivating non-native crops while maintaining high-quality and delivering consistency.
Self-sufficiency
Generating sustainable electricity and water with existing techniques to thereby provide the greenhouse with off-grid energy.
Community
Raising independency by knowledge transfer through education and enhancing social inclusion by creating job opportunities.
OUR OFFICIAL PARTNERS
About Resilient Island
We aim to implement circular economies regarding food and waste streams in the world’s most isolated regions: the Small Island Developing States. By realizing local and sustainable food production, generating renewable energy, creating circular food and waste streams, up-cycling materials, conducting a knowledge transfer and enhancing the local economy by providing jobs, we aim to raise more independency.
Because we believe that the Small Island Development States should be fully self-sufficient and be able to grow towards their own clean, fruitful and sustainable future.
nice to meet you!
Jessie-Lynn van Egmond
Environmental Engineer / Water Management
Graduate water researcher for project Tewaii Valhu:
a fieldwork campaign for social and hydrogeological water management of hydroponic high-tech greenhouses the Maldives.
advisory board
Aishath Azfa
Sustainable Development Consultant
Amit Parulekar
Former Global Head of Finance at ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
Martien Duijndam
Grower / Owner of Duijndam Greenconsult
Raymond Pijpers
Managing Director Accenture
Remco Beekman
(Corporate) Lawyer
Rob Baan
Owner and CEO Koppert Cress
Rolf de Jong
Senior Agronomist at LLC Greenhouse
ongoing research
Cultivation Lab
Pilot Project
The Cultivation Lab is Resilient Islands’ pilot project. This simulation (45m²) of the semi-closed greenhouse will cultivate lettuce and tomatoes, where many different types are recorded under the controlled climate environment. This lab makes it possible for local farmers and students to start their training in this horticultural techniques.
Tewaii Valhu
Water Research
Fresh water is becoming increasinlgy scarce, especially in decentralised regions, such as the Island States. Therefore, Tewaii is currently conducting research in Curacao and the Maldives. Surrounded by the ocean, the island’s groundwater is prone to saline intrusion. Add leaking sanitation systems, tourism, sealevel rise and you can image how the delicate balance of their natural water cycle is disrupted. Jessie-Lynn van Egmond is engaged in both analyzing the water resources as designing the greenhouse’s water cycle.
Baa Atoll Transfer Station
Waste Management
An additional project on the waste management issue in the Maldives. The development of a waste transfer station on the Baa Atoll as the solution.
