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[Michael Pilarski <friendsofthetrees@yahoo.com>]

Dar permaculture colleagues, Two of my permaculture friends inWashington 
recently got involved in advising a development project inAfghanistan. Do any 
of you have leads on any permaculture work (or gooddevelopment in general) 
going on in Afghanistan?  Any leads that might be useful in thisproject?   
Email Michael Pilarski,  friendsofthetrees@yahoo.com More details follow.   
PERMACULTURE IN AFGHANISTAN Permaculture in war zones. Inparticular, a 
development project in Afghanistan which is being informed bypermaculture.  A 
chance meeting betweenan afghan woman speaker at a college campus and the 
mother of a permaculturewoman ended up with two permaculturists advising this 
development project innortheast Afghanistan.  The project isaiding local 
people to increase food production and ecologicalrestoration.  The main 
request of thepeople is for fruit trees, so they have nurseries producing 
figs, pomegranate,mulberry, citrus and others.  The projectis being carried 
out with the constraints of low resources.  People have very little. The 
project mustkeep its head low. There are many armed, dangerous men. Army, 
militia, Talibanand warlords. Some of the warlords are domestic, some 
foreigners and some aresupported by the US military.   Afghanistan was 85% 
food selfsufficient prior to the Russian war and exported specialty food 
products. 40years of war has meant a destruction of much of the agriculture 
and irrigationsystems  and large displacements ofpeople.  A whole generation 
has grown upin refugee camps with no chance to learn their rich agricultural 
heritage. Thesituation is bad.   Rosemary Morrow was the key person 
tointroduce permaculture in Afghanistan. Today, she is worried about the 
people she trained there.   So my question to the permaculturecommunity at 
large is: what successful development projects can you point ustowards that 
operated in low resource conditions in the Global South (theydon’t have to 
use the word permaculture), and particularly projects thatoperated in war 
time conditions.   Of course, this is a big request.  There have been 
thousands of successfuldevelopment projects in the Global South over the last 
30 years (and tens ofthousands of failed projects). Only a small % of them 
have been permacultureprojects.  Where are the best and biggestcompendiums so 
far?  Please sendfeedback… Michael Pilarski,  
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The first person I would talk to is Rosemary Morrow.  She did a project in
Afghanistan a few years back and there is a great/sad video of it.  Her
project was gardens for widowed mothers with children.  

I also trained a group of soldiers for doing agricultural programs in
Afghanistan.

Scott Pittman

"The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand
heads bowed in prayer."  Mahatma Gandi

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Dar permaculture colleagues,�Two of my permaculture friends inWashington
recently got involved in advising a development project inAfghanistan. Do
any of you have leads on any permaculture work (or gooddevelopment in
general) going on in Afghanistan?� Any leads that might be useful in
thisproject?� �Email Michael Pilarski,� friendsofthetrees@yahoo.com�More
details follow.� �PERMACULTURE IN AFGHANISTAN�Permaculture in war zones.
Inparticular, a development project in Afghanistan which is being informed
bypermaculture.� A chance meeting betweenan afghan woman speaker at a
college campus and the mother of a permaculturewoman ended up with two
permaculturists advising this development project innortheast Afghanistan.�
The project isaiding local people to increase food production and
ecologicalrestoration.� The main request of thepeople is for fruit trees, so
they have nurseries producing figs, pomegranate,mulberry, citrus and
others.� The projectis being carried out with the constraints of low
resources.� People have very little. The project mustkeep its head low.
There are many armed, dangerous men. Army, militia, Talibanand warlords.
Some of the warlords are domestic, some foreigners and some aresupported by
the US military.� �Afghanistan was 85% food selfsufficient prior to the
Russian war and exported specialty food products. 40years of war has meant a
destruction of much of the agriculture and irrigationsystems� and large
displacements ofpeople.� A whole generation has grown upin refugee camps
with no chance to learn their rich agricultural heritage. Thesituation is
bad.� �Rosemary Morrow was the key person tointroduce permaculture in
Afghanistan.�Today, she is worried about the people she trained there.� �So
my question to the permaculturecommunity at large is: what successful
development projects can you point ustowards that operated in low resource
conditions in the Global South (theydon�t have to use the word
permaculture), and particularly projects thatoperated in war time
conditions.� �Of course, this is a big request.� There have been thousands
of successfuldevelopment projects in the Global South over the last 30 years
(and tens ofthousands of failed projects). Only a small % of them have been
permacultureprojects.� Where are the best and biggestcompendiums so far?�
Please sendfeedback��Michael Pilarski, �
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