Permaculture is an innovative framework for creating sustainable ways of living: a practical method of developing ecologically harmonious, efficient and productive systems that can be used by anyone, anywhere. It lays emphasize on harmonious integration of human being, plants, animals and landscape (nature) providing food, energy, shelter and other sorts of material and non-material needs of people in sustainable way. In other words, it is a holistic, integrated system analysis and people oriented sustainable design system and assumes that our own sustainability is dependent on harmonious interrelationship amongst human being, plants, animals and the earth. It focuses on diversity to ensure stability, recycling local resources to minimize external inputs, reviving and understanding traditional practices/wisdom, working with nature and at the same time building up and using local biological wealth. It equally puts emphasis on community empowerment and policy advocacy for sustainable and equitable management of existing natural resources for livelihood of community. |
