Post by Naomi on Oct 1, 2015 10:02:14 GMT
Story so far
This group emerged out of discussions during the Permaculture International network (PIRN) launch and several meetings and workshops at the International Permaculture Convergence (IPC) in London, UK between 10th and 16th September 2015. Over 60 people have had input into the process so far, with a small ad-hoc group steering the process. A lot of enthusiasm and desire for research into polycultures and forest gardens has been expressed in the process, and we suggest taking this forward within the framework of PIRN.
These are notes from those discussions collated by Tomas Remiarz. The full notes can be found here.
Purpose
* Enable and support research into polycultures by and for practitioners and academics
* Enable people to connect with each other
* Enable people to access the resources they need
* Gather key information about polycultures and make them accessible
Functions
* Supporting practice and research
* Disseminating research in academia
* Disseminate best practice and research to practitioners
* Platform where people can access existing research, accessing references, set up their own.
* Function on connecting people with the resources they need.
* Enable people to do research,
* Coordinate, overview of who is doing what and how do these areas link in to each other e.g. guidance, mentoring and support on design approaches and analysis.
Goals
* Form thematic group for PIRN on polycultures
* Formulate research topics that are useful, so they're interesting for people to get involved in
* Develop multi-faceted measuring methodology/ database incl. productivity, services etc
* Create worldwide network of food forestry practitioners and researchers with regional and thematic subgroupings
* Develop design toolbox for practitioners and trainers
* Create a toolbox for transition to/ integration of food forests on farms
This group emerged out of discussions during the Permaculture International network (PIRN) launch and several meetings and workshops at the International Permaculture Convergence (IPC) in London, UK between 10th and 16th September 2015. Over 60 people have had input into the process so far, with a small ad-hoc group steering the process. A lot of enthusiasm and desire for research into polycultures and forest gardens has been expressed in the process, and we suggest taking this forward within the framework of PIRN.
These are notes from those discussions collated by Tomas Remiarz. The full notes can be found here.
Purpose
* Enable and support research into polycultures by and for practitioners and academics
* Enable people to connect with each other
* Enable people to access the resources they need
* Gather key information about polycultures and make them accessible
Functions
* Supporting practice and research
* Disseminating research in academia
* Disseminate best practice and research to practitioners
* Platform where people can access existing research, accessing references, set up their own.
* Function on connecting people with the resources they need.
* Enable people to do research,
* Coordinate, overview of who is doing what and how do these areas link in to each other e.g. guidance, mentoring and support on design approaches and analysis.
Goals
* Form thematic group for PIRN on polycultures
* Formulate research topics that are useful, so they're interesting for people to get involved in
* Develop multi-faceted measuring methodology/ database incl. productivity, services etc
* Create worldwide network of food forestry practitioners and researchers with regional and thematic subgroupings
* Develop design toolbox for practitioners and trainers
* Create a toolbox for transition to/ integration of food forests on farms