This fifty minute film tells the story of an amazing permaculture project which has been working in Zimbabwe for 22 years. Where once the 7000 people of the Chikukwa villages suffered hunger and malnutrition, this community has turned its fortunes around using permaculture farming techniques. Now they have an abundance of food and their degraded landscape has been turned into a lush paradise. Gillian Leahy and Terry Leahy (the film makers) will be present to answer questions about the film and the project.
This is a benefit presentation for the Zimbabwe Chikukwa project. We are funding a project to spread the methods used in Chikukwa to other villages in Africa.
An evening to inform, inspire and to encourage discussion about the connection between the deforestation of the earth's rainforests, unsustainable agriculture, and the global majority and how permaculture is part of the solution to protect our rainforests, and to ensure food security for the human population.
25th September, 2013
Doors open at 7:00 pm for 7:30 pm start
$20
$15 concession
John Seed
"from Zimbabwe Permaculture to Cambodian rainforests "
John Seed has been working for the protection of the world's forests since 1979. Wherever forests are under attack, one of the engines for the destruction is unsustainable agriculture. In this presentation John will speak and show a short film about one of the projects that he is currently working on: what is perhaps the best food security project in Africa - Chikukwa, where
over 22 years permaculture has moved a community of 7000 people from malnutrition to abundance.
David Holmgren
“How the behaviour of the global middle class is connected to the struggles for subsistence of the global majority.”
The Chikukwa project in Zimbabwe is an inspirational model of the best of permaculture changing the lives of the rural poor. What can we learn from this project to inform permaculture activism with both the struggling majority and the alienated minority of our globalised world?
Permaculture is a design system that has been adopted by alienated members of the global middle class moving from being responsible consumers to responsible producers over more than three decades. Over almost as long a period, permaculture has introduced simple biological solutions and low cost technologies to help struggling communities of rural (and urban) poor better provide for their basic needs. The connections between these two very different contexts for permaculture activism have not be well articulated but are important in seeing how we can make a positive contribution in a world of crisis and struggle.
David Holmgren co-originator of permaculture (1978), author, activist, educator, consultant and public speaker. His property “Melliodora” in Hepburn, Victoria is one of the best known permaculture demonstration sites in Australia.
holmgren.com.au
As well as constant involvement in the practical diversity of permaculture, David is passionate about the philosophical and conceptual foundations for sustainability that are highlighted in his major work, Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability. His more recent work Future Scenarios: How Communities Can Adapt To Peak Oil and Climate Change outlines energy descent futures that could emerge over the next few decades. David Holmgren provides leadership with his refreshing and unorthodox approach to the environmental issues of our time.
Presented by the Earthsoulscience Co-Op
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