permEzone is a project of California-based non-profit Empowerment WORKS, and an approved international project of the Permaculture Association (Britain).
Our mission: to inspire, empower and support farming communities in the developing world to build regenerative food systems that will meet the needs of current and future generations, creating self-sufficiency, eco-social resilience, and thriving rural economies.
Our vision: an online ecosystem; a network that connects communities in building and preserving unique local intelligence derived from real-life experience on the land. In combination with appropriate training and information resources, the power of shared experience can empower the development of sustainable productivity designed to work in harmony with nature.
Mobile phones are an effective tool for sharing information with farmers in the developing world. Farmers trained to design self-sustaining food systems, with access to the knowledge and skills of qualified teachers and practitioners, can use cell phones to engage with their wider community in co-creating the resources needed to build food-secure and resilient communities.
With more mobile phones on the planet than people, this technology is being used to reach the poorest, most remote, and least well-served. This is the technology that can be used to push back against the industrialization of farming, which ultimately impoverishes the land and the people who live on it.
Our mission: to inspire, empower and support farming communities in the developing world to build regenerative food systems that will meet the needs of current and future generations, creating self-sufficiency, eco-social resilience, and thriving rural economies.
Our vision: an online ecosystem; a network that connects communities in building and preserving unique local intelligence derived from real-life experience on the land. In combination with appropriate training and information resources, the power of shared experience can empower the development of sustainable productivity designed to work in harmony with nature.
Mobile phones are an effective tool for sharing information with farmers in the developing world. Farmers trained to design self-sustaining food systems, with access to the knowledge and skills of qualified teachers and practitioners, can use cell phones to engage with their wider community in co-creating the resources needed to build food-secure and resilient communities.
With more mobile phones on the planet than people, this technology is being used to reach the poorest, most remote, and least well-served. This is the technology that can be used to push back against the industrialization of farming, which ultimately impoverishes the land and the people who live on it.