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Permacultura America Latina (PAL)
Ali
Sharif – Founder
Melissa Stevens-Briceño – Executive Director
Suntara Loba – Program Assistant
Permacultura America Latina (PAL) is a 15-year old, Santa Fe, NM-based 501(c)
3 non-profit organization supporting grassroots sustainable development
initiatives and low impact economic practices in poor and indigenous communities
throughout Latin America. PAL manages and provides technical and financial
support to our affiliated permaculture schools and demonstration centers
abroad. Permaculture, rooted in the belief that a "culture" can
only be "permanent" if it has sustainable forms of agriculture,
presents pragmatic, sustainable development alternatives for long-term rehabilitation
and enrichment of environments depleted by conventional forms of building,
agriculture, and overgrazing. PAL’s systems-design approach recognizes
the most appropriate technical, traditional, and indigenous methods of food
production, protection of biodiversity and land rehabilitation, and our
organization serves as the link between the eight sustainable research centers
we have helped to establish in Latin America. These centers are active at
national, regional and local levels. PAL’s work has led to the creation
of seed banks, demonstrative farms, educational centers, innovations in
renewable and village technologies, natural building models and technical
manuals, new agricultural opportunities for women, and extensive education
and empowerment of people of all ages. Our educational program reaches tens
of thousands, and our students and projects have won numerous awards. Our
village and social technologies are being replicated in hundreds of projects
throughout the continent.
From left to
right: Suntara
Loba /Program Assistant;
Santos Regino Rodriguez Hernandez – Permaculture Institute-El Salvador;
Ali Sharif – Founder; Melissa Stevens-Briceño – Executive
Director
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