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[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe@silcom.com>]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF704vAgjwo&feature=youtu.be

 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF704vAgjwo&feature=youtu.be>Ali Sharif is 
a Permaculture pioneer who over 30 years ago took a Permaculture Design 
Course taught by Bill Mollison on Whidbey Island in Washington. At the end of 
the course Bill Mollison approached each PC grad with a mike and asked them 
pointedly "just what are you going to do with this knowledge, RIGHT NOW?!" 

Ali answered immediately "I'm in Bill, I will dedicate my life to 
Permaculture" and Bill pointed him to South America and said "go there", and 
he did, spending the next 27 years in the Amazon.  We visited in 2007, four 
of the sites he had developed in different ecosystems of Brazil, when 
attending the International Permaculture Conference and Conference (IPC8).

In 2010 Bill asked him to go to Africa and for six years now he has worked in 
southern Mozambique in an area of resettled communities where civil war 
lasted for 12 years, and where there is severe malnutrition, HIV, no reliable 
potable water, and grinding poverty - can permaculture flower in such a place?

Instituto Permaculture Mozambique (IPERMO) is Ali's organization.

Ali Sharif is a permaculture expert who has worked with communities to 
establish several dozen projects on three continents. He began working full 
time in the southern cone of Africa in 2010 and has helped initiate several 
small support projects in South Africa, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique. 

Ali says he hopes to see you all at the next International Permaculture 
Convergence in India! (IPC13, Nov 2017, http://ipcindia2017.org 
<http://ipcindia2017.org/>)

This interview we did with Ali Sharif took place at Casitas Valley Farm 
during his visit in Santa Barbara this week-

Ali is a dear friend of both Margie Bushman and myself, we first met him at 
our first International Permaculture Convergence (IPC) in Croatia in 2005, 
later at the IPC he convened in Brazil in 2007.

(apologies for accidental 3 minutes of thumb in the frame of the video)



  
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