SEEKING SECURITY FOR ALL
Needful Provision Inc. (NPI) was founded in 1995 as a 501(c)3 Non-Profit with an all volunteer team. Our mission is to assist the poor and disadvantaged worldwide, without discrimination, by the research, development, demonstration, teaching, and commercialization of unique self-help, self-sufficiency technologies. We help you help your community.
We hold several patents on unique self-sufficiency technologies from biosecure greenhouses and chicken houses to biochar production. We have information, checklists and manuals on community food security, biosecurity, health & telemedicine, micro loans and micro enterprises, alternative energy, zero net energy housing, and homeland security.
Greenhouse Project with SWOS - Innovative self-sustaining greenhouse that students can use and study
Counterdesertification technologies to safely grow crops on desert land.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
A 50-Acre Farm in Oklahoma was purchased with patent revenue to train a crew of political refugees to develop a small farming operation that taught about crops, livestock, aquaculture, aquaponics, algalculture, horticulture, and mushroom production.
Our Tubal-Algaculture System was developed with Duke and NC State University and funded by the USDA, USDOE, National Science Foundation and others. This system produces algal lipids for biofuels and algal solids for high protein animal feed and was designed as a way to counter desertification, provide an alternative energy source and help feed livestock.
Curbing fraud in farm loan guarantees. We helped sponsor a qui tam litigation against five banks engaged in fraud against refugees and political refugees acquiring small farms using USDA farm loan guarantees. The courts fined each bank more than $2 million, forced them to pay refugees for losses, and returned $73 million to the USDA.
"Remote Areas Development Manual" was created to assist NGOs and developing nations. This training manual has been published in 13 languages and gives NGO's and Peace Corps volunteers a step-by-step way to help developing nations and villages to become more self-sufficient. Link
At NPI's Oklahoma Ag Training center, we taught trainees in shiitake mushroom production on hardwood logs.
We tested Nguni cattle and Dorper sheep (a meat-hair breed) for their abilities to thrive on desert lands w/ minimal water and mostly brush for forage