Stories from the permaculture frontier (book)

Permaculture Pioneers: Stories from the New Frontier

Permaculture Pioneers: Stories from the New Frontier, is a collection of stories about personal journeys into permaculture of some of our most important Australian pioneers. This book explores social and inner change for sustainability and charts a history of the first three decades of permaculture. 25 of Australia's leading permaculture practitioners have contributed their stories to this volume.

Permaculture annotated bibliography (online)

Permaculture annotated bibliography

A really nice online resource by permaculture designer and farmer Christopher Kelly-Bisson; a list of nearly 60 permaculture books, articles and chapters with great annotations including a summary and critical thoughts. The author does an amazing job of digesting an awful lot of reading into concise, clear summaries, setting a standard for me to aspire to with The Digest!

Digest reaches 2,000 page views a month!

Digest crosses the 2,000 mark!

For the first time, The Permaculture Research Digest has had 2,000 page views in a single month. Between 17th February and 17th March there were 2007 page views from 20 countries. The total number of page views since The Digest was launched in January 2013 has now exceeded 33,000. An average post gets around 45 views, with the current most popular post ('The 7 Best Permaculture Journals') having 318. About a third of page views come from the USA, a third from the UK, and a third from other countries. Why not celebrate this landmark achievement by sharing The Digest with a friend or colleague?

Community-led sustainability network for Europe (online)

Introducing The TESS Network

TESS (Towards European Societal Sustainability) is a European research project which aims to illustrate the role of community based initiatives in creating a sustainable, low-carbon Europe. It is supporting policy makers by contributing to a better understanding of how initiatives can become more successful. TESS is also helping initiatives to monitor and report on their environmental impacts, including carbon reduction. It aims to develop a measurement method, which is comparable across Europe.

Voices of food sovereignty (book)

Food Voices: Stories From the People Who Feed Us

This new book praises the farmers and fishermen trying to create a food system that values quality over quantity, and communities and the environment over the corporate bottom-line. Town-by-town, these front-line players are working to change how food is provided, processed and distributed. "Food Voices" introduces the concept of food sovereignty and highlights farmers and fishermen pursuing the local food movement with that framework. The stories of their struggles and triumphs are presented in a comprehensive book to strengthen and enhance the local food movement. Over 80 interviews collected from the United States, Ecuador, Venezuela, Brazil and Haiti indicate that food sovereignty is spontaneously growing stronger throughout the Americas. Thirty of those interviews are presented in "Food Voices."

Agroecology in action (report)

WhyHunger Launches New Agroecology Publication

WhyHunger is proud to release its first agroecology publication, “Agroecology: Putting Food Sovereignty into Action.” Agroecology is an agricultural method based on the traditional knowledge of those who cultivate the land and a way of life. We believe its practice is critical to addressing global hunger and increasing communities’ access to basic resources such as land, water and seeds. The publication is not a technical guide to agroecology, rather it shares the knowledge and perspectives of 10 social movement leaders that are working to “scale up” agroecology around the world. It also highlights the social, political, cultural, nutritional and spiritual meanings of agroecology from within communities that have been negatively impacted by the commodification of food.

Please support IPCUK scholarships

IPCUK Scholarships Crowdfunder

Help us build up a scholarship fund so that we can support permaculture practitioners from across the world - especially people from the Global South - to attend the international permaculture conference and convergence this September in London and Essex (IPCUK). Your donations will help bring representatives from across the world via a scholarship fund, and help make the event more accessible, diverse and inclusive. You can help to ensure that:

• Their voices will be at the heart of discussions for the next phase of the international permaculture network.   
• Their needs can be recognised and better supported now and in the future.
• They will be able to access information and support, and share it with their communities when they get home.
• They can share their experiences, skills and achievements with other participants at IPCUK.