permaculture

[Pacific Edge Permaculture + Media <pacedge@magna.com.au>]

Hi Jo...

> From: "Jo  Tenner" <jotenner@mpx.com.au>
> Reply-To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 21:55:30 -0400
> To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Subject: re: research on pc needed

> I have completed a critique of the Penan Permaculture project which I
> presented at a conference last year in China on Biodiversity and
> Indigenous Knowledge.

Has this been posted anywhere on the web?
 
> I have been working on putting together a general review of permaculture
> programs conducted in Vietnam and Cambodia by Rosemary Morrow over the
> last decade (this project has been on hold for the last year but I will be
> picking it up in June)

Do you have any information on what your evaluation criteria be?


> I am currently undertaking a Masters in Agriculture and Rural development
> at Uni of Western Sydney – Hawkesbury and endeavour to use this course to
> facilitate my curiosity about the actual value of permaculture to
> communities and individuals in ‘difficult’ contexts.

This is a crucial question and one I have been asked about a number of
times.

A number of questions have come up regarding permaculture in aid:

1) What of lasting value is evident that has been passed on by permaculture
after some years?

2) What has the permaculture aid worker/ organisation taken on board from
the broader body of aid practice?

3) What has permaculture contributed to aid practice?

4) Has the permaculture aid practitioner contributed anything peculiar to
permaculture that is not part of some allied knowledge system such as
organic gardening?

...Russ Grayson