The land sustains itself
Land restoration as a funded project ends when the funding ends. ARENOVA links restoration to a product that can be sold — so that operations continue once nobody is watching any more.
ARENOVA is a systems approach for arid and semi-arid regions. It combines water supply, power generation, vegetation, material cycles, connectivity and provision for the people into a single site concept — with the aim that operations continue once the construction phase is over.
Irrigate alone and the water is lost to evaporation. Plant alone and the vegetation is lost to drought. Generate power alone and you have power but no consumer. Build all of it but make no provision for the people, and you will find nobody to run the installation.
This is not a technical difficulty but a structural one: the components depend on one another. If one is missing, the rest will not carry. That is why many undertakings end when the funding period ends — not because the technology failed, but because no self-sustaining operation ever came into being.
ARENOVA addresses precisely this point. The approach does not describe a better individual technology but the sequence and the interaction of the components from which a viable site emerges.
The measure of success. An undertaking has succeeded if it is still running five years after the last payment. Anything else is construction work, not development.
The following description sets out the task each component performs within the whole. The specific interconnection, the design and the processes from which the interaction arises are not the subject of this description — see the notice at the end of the page.
Land restoration as a funded project ends when the funding ends. ARENOVA links restoration to a product that can be sold — so that operations continue once nobody is watching any more.
Dry land without water and without connection has little value. Establish both and value arises — on land nobody previously wanted. That is the economic lever of the approach.
With provision, training and connectivity a place emerges where people stay. Without those elements what emerges is a camp that stands empty after the construction phase.
Effects on water, soil, employment and provision are measured and documented. Development financiers require this — and the measurement chain is needed for operational control in any case.
The sequence is an order of steps, not a timetable. Duration and scope depend on the site, the legal position and the financing structure.
Water availability, irradiation, soil, accessibility, land rights and the question of who locally is affected. Without settled land rights nothing begins.
Sizing the components to the site, economic assessment, corporate and financing structure, offtake agreements for produce and energy.
Construction in phases, training of local staff, transition to regular operation and continuous measurement of effects.
Undertakings of this kind affect land use and livelihoods. Development financiers require dedicated procedures for this — identification of those affected, participation, treatment of use rights and, where applicable, free, prior and informed consent. These procedures are not an annex but a precondition of financeability, and they are carried forward from the outset.
Proprietor of the brand and the associated know-how, Herisau, Switzerland. It develops the systems approach, supports the site assessment and grants licences.
Construction and operation are carried out through a company in the respective country, in which the parties hold interests according to the financing structure chosen.
Individual components are implemented together with suitably qualified partner companies and research institutions. These are independent undertakings; their technologies belong to them.
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This description sets out ARENOVA at a functional level. The specific interconnection of the components, their design and the processes from whose interaction the overall system emerges are not the subject of this description.
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