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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Intellectual property
  • Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:48:48 -0500

Jonathan Storvick wrote:

Jon Storvick
Autonomy Without Tears
http://autonomywotears.blogspot.com

"Polycultural systems also value and protect indigenous and traditional farming methods, knowledge (especially that of rural women), and unique varieties of crops, which contribute to agricultural progress worldwide (Francis, et al., 2003; Thrupp, 2000, 2004). Altieri and Rosset (1996) elaborate:

""…Sustainability is not possible without preserving the cultural diversity that nurtures local agriculture… Peasant knowledge about ecosystems usually results in multidimensional land-use productive strategies, which generate, within certain ecological and technical limits, the food self-sufficiency of communities in particular regions. For agroecologists there are several aspects of traditional knowledge systems that are relevant: knowledge of farming practices and the physical environment, biological folk taxonomic systems, use of low-input technologies, etc. By understanding ecological features of traditional agriculture, such as the ability to bear risk, production efficiencies of symbiotic crop mixtures, recycling of materials, reliance on local resources and germplasm, exploitation of full range of micro-environments, etc., it is possible to obtain important information that may be used for developing appropriate agricultural strategies tailored to the needs, preferences and resource base of specific farmer groups and regional agroecosystems (p. 169).""

In an interview (Kawell, 2002), agroecologist Miguel Altieri takes this concept one step further: “Agroecology is not just a development method, but also a resistance to globalization, a tool for social movements to become much more autonomous… it is the technological flag of the resistance movement.” (p. 33)"

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My idea for a global permaculture database with plant-animal relationships and guild identification and documentation included
the ability to serve people around the world, in their own language,
so that they could enter data about their own area and endeavors
into the database; this data would be integrated with input from everyone else around the globe, everyone would benefit from any and all input. I see a need to locate, identify, document and preserve all indigenous global cultures, their foods, architecture, community,
tools, agriculture and knowledgebase. As this list serves the world
as an efficient communication tool, an online permaculture knowledgebase
would provide extended, long term benefits. It could become a huge
project lasting indefinitely, helped along in a big way by all Google and Wolfram/Alpha offers.




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