Focus Africa

 

Focus Africa People Wikipedia Other Links Morocco Permaculture Network

 

"To Create a New Paradigm for African Development" 

The Plan Africa website will be launched Nov. 1 in time for the opening ceremonies of the 9th International Permaculture Conference and Convergence.

www.PlanAfrica.net

 

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7June08

Several people have commented that we don't have many African permaculture profiles up here, and we particularly want to get to know what is happening in Africa given that the next world conference and convergence is planned there, for may 2009 (see http://www.ipcon.org/ )

 

And it's just a question of doing the work: do you know of any African designers who aren't here? Please email anyone in the DesignOfPilot group and tell us ... even better, ask how to put up a profile here and do it - it´s very easy.

 

People

 

Dale (SouthAfrica)

Jan (Uganda)

Joe (Zimbabwe)

John (Sudafrica)

Josephine (Uganda)

Julious (Zimbabwe)

Khalymbengue (Senegal)

Lewis (Zimbabwe)

Luke (South Africa)

Vanessa (South Africa/USA)

Victor (Uganda)

Walter (Zimbabwe)

Wangari (Kenya)

 

do you know any more permaculture designers in Africa?

 

 

 

 

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13 jul08

Wikipedia

 

Zimbabwe has sixty schools designed using permaculture, with a national team working within the schools' curriculum development unit. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has produced a report on using permaculture in refugee situations after successful use in camps in Southern Africa and Macedonia. The Biofarming approach applied in Ethiopia has very similar features and can be considered as permaculture. It is mainly promoted by BEA (NGO) based in Addis Ababa.

 

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June 15, 2008

Stacia, Kristof & Khalidwe Nordin, www.NeverEndingFood.org , nordin@eomw.net (Malawi)

There is a long list of people here in Permaculture - designers I think there are less than 10 here at the moment. 4-5 expatriates, 1 patriated locally, 1 or very few Malawians - although that is changing very quickly!

 

 

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Other Links

 

The idea of this Chaordic PC Institute is to be primarily people (and not project)-centred (because there are already many excellent sites that do PC project lists) - but

a) in hoping to move the dialogues about African Permaculture, and

b) whilst we do the painstaking work of 'discovering' the brilliant people behind these projects: help gratefully welcomed) ...

 

here is a list of African information to share, recommended from permaculture colleagues:

 

 

8jun08

 

http://www.africanagricultureblog.com

 

http://africanagriculture.blogspot.com

 

http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-africa_democracy/agency_2796.jsp

 

do you have others?

 

 

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Thanks to Open Permaculture list for these links:

 

9jun08

 

I personally have no experience in Africa, but a while ago I did some

googling to help a friend who is working in Zambia.

The following are some of the links I saved, maybe they might be helpful.

 

 

http://www.neverendingfood.org (Stacia, Kristof and Khalidwe Nordin)

 

http://www.trees.org.za/

 

http://www.elementalafrica.co.za/index.php?include=welcome.html

 

http://www.ideorg.org/company/index.php

 

http://www.sicambeni.co.za/node/239

 

Regards,

Joe

 

 

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I want to add a couple projects to the accumulating 'radar' of some efforts

in Africa, that are not explicitly "permaculture", but are implementing

aspects of it - such as food gardening for orphanages in HIV/AIDS affected

areas or providing potable water to schools and villages.

 

1st off:

 

OAEC staff person Doug Gosling in collaboration with our local Sonoma County

AIDS food bank - Food For Thought - has a program called Project Africa.

They have been partnering with efforts in Namibia, Senegal and Kenya.

 

The Food For Thought garden is a wonderful example of an amazing

"permacultural style" organic edible landscape with aspects of a temperate

food forest with a lot of diversity on a fairly small parcel. See the NY

Times article below. So, it is hoped that they can bring this style of

multi-functional food gardening to their projects in Africa.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/26/us/26aids.html "A Rare Kind of Food Bank,

and Just Maybe the Hippest, Flourishes"

 

Food For Thought's Home page: http://fftfoodbank.org/

And the direct Project Africa link at http://fftfoodbank.org/project-africa/

 

A group that they partner with in Dakar, Senegal is called

DIG or Development in gardening:

http://www.developmentingardening.org/DIG/HOME.html

 

 

Secondly:

 

On the roofwater harvesting side of things I want to let folks know about

the work of my friends Dylan and Kelly Coleman.

They have a roofwater catchment design and install firm in Mt. Shasta City,

CA called Wonder Water - http://www.wonderwater.net

 

And they also have a non-profit called Save The Rain and they have a number

of projects in East Africa in Tanzania on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro

To see the list of projects - http://www.savetherain.org/projects.htm

 

Look at the update page that shows comparative pictures of Petri dish

cultures for Fecal Coliforms between Government pipe water, local stream

water and their roofwater from two projects!! Pretty cool!!

http://www.savetherain.org/ProjectUpdates.html

 

 

Mostly Water,

Brock

 

 

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10jun08

 

Ecology Action (John Jeavons/Biointensive mini-farming) has been doing

projects in Africa for many years and afaik have some ongoing - contact

them for more info.

 

http://growbiointensive.org/

 

cheers,

John S.

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27 Jan 2010

 

Morocco Permaculture Network

 

There did not seem to be any network in Morocco, so I started

http://marocpc.ning.com/

to see what interest there was. In a few weeks we have 14 members, which is better than I expected. I also have a few other leads. Obvously most people are not online, so I think there will be quite a few more out there. The site is (mostly) in french, here is a link to google's translation.

 

The plan in our own little space is to repair the watershed and return the whole valley to fertility. We have a site there where we are running a PDC course in conjunction with the PRI in Australia ( http://maroc.tribalnetworks.org/ ), so I should be able to make more contacts on the next visit.  All in all it looks promising!

 

 I will link from the ning site to here, as there are designers working there who are not in this directory. I am hoping we will get enough people soon to decide on some kind of network or association or whatever.

 

 

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