Permaculture in Madagascar

The Land Stewardship Center is all about permaculture. Here's one definition of that concept:

"The word "permaculture" was coined in 1978 by Bill Mollison, an Australian ecologist, and one of his students, David Holmgren. It is a contraction of "permanent agriculture" or "permanent culture." Permaculture is about designing ecological human habitats and food production systems. It is a land use and community building movement which strives for the harmonious integration of human dwellings, microclimate, annual and perennial plants, animals, soils, and water into stable, productive communities."

After I'd lived and worked here at the LSC twice before, I applied some of what I learned to a permaculture project in a remote part of western Madagascar. Here's the blog for that Peace Corps project if you want to learn more about the concept of permaculture as applied to a less-developed region:

http://www.qani.blogspot.com/