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The Mission of the Permaculture Research Institute is to work with individuals and communities worldwide, to expand the knowledge and practice of integrated, sustainable agriculture and culture using the whole-systems approach of permaculture design. This will provide solutions for permanent abundance by training local people to become leaders of sustainable development in their communities and countries.

The Permaculture Research Institute offers advice and information on establishing a Permaculture Educational Demonstration sites, which operate as education centres that seek to replicate themselves across their respective surrounding regions. Each demonstration site seeks to become financially self-sufficient as quickly as possible through both reducing the need for cash inputs by providing as much of their own needs, sustainably, from the land-base of the project itself, and through selling knowledge – running courses to help others follow their example. Each educational demonstration site thus works to build communities around them where locals can re-skill and transition to live resilient lives independent of the globalised, industrial system.

Each site can provide local employment for permaculture a teacher, project/farm manager, and administrator. These positions will also provide mentoring for students as advanced training for permaculture project work.

Assistance for such projects can come by way of students from wealthier countries/situations subsidising the training of local people through their course attendance and fees, whilst those students simultaneously gain benefits in cultural exchange and exposure to local, traditional skills. Local students, in turn, also learn to appreciate the instruction, as the presence of international students helps them gain confidence in the value of the course.

Courses need to specialise in the appropriate technologies and systems specific to each location, both culturally and biologically.

To learn more visit: http://permaculturenews.org/what-is-the-permaculture-research-institute/