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International co-operation to:
1) Develop wildfire fighting equipment and
2) Expand forests
About FFI
The Firefly Innovations program was initiated through a broad based agricultural development program in South Africa and Southern Africa, known as Agri2000. (Click To See)
Wildfires- within Africa are increasingly becoming a major threat to the environment, communities and overall sustainability of agriculture in Africa undermining food security.
During interactions with communities and firefighters it became clear that little or no work has been done to enhance specifically fire engines for wildfire and forestry conditions.
The $5 billion dollar savings
Agri2000 is currently interacting with various companies in the United States with regards to agricultural developments.
From these interactions it was suggested and put forward that an initial joint international strategy between the United States and Africa be developed to fund the development of these concepts.
Especially so; as a result of the fact that these concepts could lead to substantial improvements in firefighting of wildfires- and forest fires and as it will also be able to save million of the costs of wildfire fighting.
It is estimated that in the conditions in the USA these units can improve containment & suppression by more than 10%. Based on the US Department of Forestry’s wildfire containment cost estimates this will result in savings of over $5 billion dollars.
Top international anchor partners
Via Agri2000 a number of new concepts have been formulated and designed, now at an advanced stage where prototype developments are urgently needed.
These however are specialized wildfires-forestry firefighting units.
Various companies have expressed an interest and commitment to manufacture these units subject to successful prototype tests.