Degania: the First Kibbutz (1910)
Beginnings that change the order of the world, or at least the history of a nation and a country, may be modest.
#Kibbutz Dgania began as an experiment, after the rural settlement in the Promised Land (still, 48 years before there was the state of Israel) suffered persistent #poverty and #hunger for decades, and it seemed that there was no way out of this situation.
Sounds familiar?
Already from its first year, Kibbutz Dgania showed exceptional profitability.
High Profitability is what made the Kibbutz model so attractive, and the reason it became the leading Israeli model for agriculture rural communities.
From the moment that the parties involved realized that there was an organizational way that allowed groups of farmers to live from agriculture thanks to high profitability (despite challenging objective conditions), all the settlements that were established afterwards were established in the image of that model, the model presented in Dgania, the first kibbutz.
All the Kibbutzim established in Israel exist and thrive to this day, with zero percent of poverty and hunger among their members.
However, in other developing countries things were different.
Oover a hundred years later, farmers in developing countries still suffer from persistent poverty (and some from hunger).
Will the Kibbutz model be able to help farmers in developing countries as it helped Jewish farmers under the Ottoman and British Empires, and later under the State of Israel?
And before we answer negatively, it is worth asking whether in the hundred and fourteen years that have passed since the founding of the first Kibbutz there has been a more successful model than that of the Kibbutz, in speed and efficiency of shifting farmers from poverty to prosperity?
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