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This paper examines the effects on children of an antipoverty employment program for Canadian welfare recipients called the Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP).
For example, experimental studies in Canada (Self-Sufficiency Project) and the US Minnesota Family Investment Projectt) have shown that while increased compulsion to work does increase employment among parents, it is not by much – employment rates were between 11% and 15% higher in those groups where compulsion was increased.
But carefully conducted experiments show that some strategies work: intensive early childhood education modeled after the Abecedarian Project, rigorous schools like those in the KIPP network, volunteer reader tutoring like that done by Start Making a Reader Today, and subsidized jobs programs like Canada's Self-Sufficiency Project that build the employment habit.
Introduce the Self-Sufficiency Project in the model as an experiment.
16 For comprehensive details on the Self-Sufficiency Project, see Michalopoulos et al. (2002).
The social experiment we consider here is the Canadian Self-Sufficiency Project.
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It is not a zero-carbon undertaking like some more radical self-sufficiency projects but as they increase their farming – and members – they hope to reduce their energy use.
Self-sufficiency projects were an additional source of income for the educational establishments, e.g. keeping domestic livestock and selling produce.
Also look at your local city services website to see who you can talk to in order to find out about DIY and self-sufficiency projects.
Some DIY or self sufficiency projects are more about fun than saving money, as the labour content, tools or ingredients cost far more than is feasible compared to a pre-made thing, which sometimes may be better made.
Anderson and Strutt (2014) concludes that self-sufficiency rates were projected to fall more than 10% across many major agricultural products by 2030; Chinese household income and output are likely to increase, and food consumption per capita is estimated to increase as well.
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