Steve Cran gives NGO stakeholders a field briefing on the village zone permaculture design strategy.
“My system of the “5 rings of sustainability” is adapted from permaculture for community development. From tribal people to aid officials this system makes sense. In each ring we know many “best practices” that will improve that community or household. The rings are interconnected.”
In the new village garden, set-up by Steve on his arrival, he draws in the dirt, with a stick, the basic 5 zone permaculture strategy. He explains how the basic unit of food security is the home food and medicinal garden, and how this expands out through the village to the hunting lands, with the outermost zone being the “eco-zone” for regeneration and wildlife.
Petra Schneider confirms that permaculture can be an excellent strategy for post-disaster permaculture relief and development, if done correctly, via local “counterparts” and for the long-term
Petra Schneider of IDEP Foundation talks about rolling-out a community-based permaculture relief network is a post-disaster zone. She explains the evolution of the community permaculture manuals from Timor, to Aceh and now, via Project Racine, to Haiti.
Essential listening for those preparing permaculture response and aid for Haiti and other disaster zones
Today I spoke with veteran permaculture and aid specialist Steve Cran in Abim, Uganda. Steve explains the realities of extreme permaculture in the disaster zones of earthquakes, tsunami and war. Steve leads from the field and has 20 years experience in remote Australia, East Timor and tsunami Aceh.
Steve Cran, disaster response and permaculture aid specialist, a veteran of the war zone of Timor, the tsunami of Aceh and now of Uganda talks to Permaculture TV about the realities of extreme permaculture and its relation to Haiti.
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