Permaculture as a strategy for conservation and recovery of natural systems in the Brazilian cerrado. Soares, A. In Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology: Impact of agriculture on conservation biology, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil, July, 2005.
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Permaculture is defined by Mollison (1988) as a design system for sustainable human communities that emulates the resilience and diversity of natural systems. In 1999 a parcel of land was acquired to develop a reference centre in the Brazilian Cerrado to demonstrate the viability of Permaculture as a solution to revitalize rural communities suffering from the effects of excessive use of pastures and economic depression. Ecocentre IPEC has been working with a local community of 200 families developing technologies of organic and permanent food production, water care, renewable energy, reforestation and sustainable housing models. After 5 years of work in an abandoned pasture of 2 hectares, the effects of permaculture as a community development strategy for restoration of natural cycles and the revitalization of the local economy can be noticed from several viewpoints. Several technologies have been implemented by the community, including annual replanting of forests, ecological toilets, rain water collection for human consumption, housing from natural and local materials and the rescuing of traditional methods of land and water care. The technologies and participatory methods of Ecocentre IPEC are now in demand for reproduction in several developing countries including Ethiopia, Haiti and Mexico. Ecocentro IPEC has won several awards for sustainability and is one of the leading ecocentres in the world
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	address = {Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil},
	title = {Permaculture as a strategy for conservation and recovery of natural systems in the {Brazilian} cerrado},
	abstract = {Permaculture is defined by Mollison (1988) as a design system for sustainable human communities that emulates the resilience and diversity of natural systems. In 1999 a parcel of land was acquired to develop a reference centre in the Brazilian Cerrado to demonstrate the viability of Permaculture as a solution to revitalize rural communities suffering from the effects of excessive use of pastures and economic depression. Ecocentre IPEC has been working with a local community of 200 families developing technologies of organic and permanent food production, water care, renewable energy, reforestation and sustainable housing models. After 5 years of work in an abandoned pasture of 2 hectares, the effects of permaculture as a community development strategy for restoration of natural cycles and the revitalization of the local economy can be noticed from several viewpoints. Several technologies have been implemented by the community, including annual replanting of forests, ecological toilets, rain water collection for human consumption, housing from natural and local materials and the rescuing of traditional methods of land and water care. The technologies and participatory methods of Ecocentre IPEC are now in demand for reproduction in several developing countries including Ethiopia, Haiti and Mexico. Ecocentro IPEC has won several awards for sustainability and is one of the leading ecocentres in the world},
	booktitle = {Annual {Meeting} of the {Society} for {Conservation} {Biology}: {Impact} of agriculture on conservation biology},
	author = {Soares, Andre},
	month = jul,
	year = {2005},
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}

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