Follow up course, Future prospects, and
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Information on the follow-up permaculture design course to be offered in August to participants of the Mesoamerican Convergence on Sustainable Development and Permaculture

This course aims to prepare and enable outstanding leaders from Mesoamerican organizations to introduce permaculture at their respective workplaces and implement permaculture practices in their communities and ecosystems. Participants will gain an understanding of sustainable development through permaculture in global, regional, and local contexts. The course and curriculum will include:

- 16 participants from 8 countries within Mesoamerica

- 2 weeks worth of training from certified Mesoamerican permaculture instructors from August 11th to the 25th 2006

- held at a site yet to be determined, most likely in El Salvador or Nicaragua

- instruction and discussion in multiple themes:

• Permaculture in relation to indigenous cosmologies

• Analysis of local, regional, and global realities

• Theory and practice of permanent agriculture

• Ecologically appropriate technologies for human needs

• Risk management and mitigation of natural disasters

• Permaculture design

• Organizational methodologies for sustainable development

• Planning of a regional strategyParticipants of the Convergence created a list of long-term goals they would like to see come to fruition as follows

1. Training opportunities to become permaculture instructors
2. Permaculture initiatives within their local workplaces and communities
3. Communication and exchange programs between their organizations
4. Visits from permaculture instructors to each of their respective countries
5. Establishment of community seed banks
6. Integration of permaculture in institutional planning
7. Dispersal of written materials on permacultureIf you are interested in supporting the Mesoamerican Convergence
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