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この賞が目を向けるのは以下の例にあるような、ローカル/地域コミュニティ主導型のパーマカルチャープロジェクトです:ダメージを負った土地の再生/リジェネレーション、生物の生息地と多様性にまつわる状況の向上、人々が実践的かつ共同体的スキルを身に着けるための支援、農産物への価値付与を通じた地域経済の発展、コミュニティ醸成、社会的結び付きや経済的レジリエンスの創生、新たな協働の手段と文化的パラダイムのモデル化、等。

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2025年賞の候補にノミネート:

Battmung

Battmungは韓国で若者が活性化し、パーマカルチャーデザインについて学ぶことができる持続可能なパーマカルチャーヴィレッジを創出するために設立されました。

高齢化によって危機に瀕している村の存続を目指しています。Battmungはパーマカルチャーを通じて、村に再び活気を取り戻させようとしています。若者を対象に72時間のパーマカルチャーデザインコース(PDC)を提供し、コース修了後も積極的にデザイナーとして活動を続ける人々は「Battmung Friends」グループを通じて交流を続けています。

2021年の設立以来、Battmungは以下の活動を行ってきました:

  • 地域の水の流れに基づいて3,000평(坪、約2.5エーカー)の葉が生い茂る畑を設計。ヒレハリソウ(コンフリー)、クローバーに加えて在来種を活用して土地を再生するべく、70種類以上ものコンパニオンプランツを植えました。
  • ベルリンのパーマカルチャーレストランから着想を得た、気候課題意識の高い食事イベントを複数回開催。
  • 内務省の「青少年村落創設支援事業(Safety’s Youth Village Vreation Support Project)」に選出され、39の青少年村落のなかでパーマカルチャーに焦点を当てたのはBattmungのみでした。
  • 300名の若者を巻き込み、5つの雇用を創出し、20名の地域住民と共に10,000人が来訪するフェスティバルを開催。

人々を繋げることの重要性を認識したBattmungは、2023年、韓国パーマカルチャー研究所(Permaculture Institute of Korea P.I.K)の設立にも貢献しました。協会の目標は地域ネットワークを運営し、パーマカルチャーに加え、土壌や食物連鎖の修復、エコロジー的認知や地域経済の向上を通じて韓国にリジェネレーションをもたらすことです。

  • 2025
  • Permaculture Magazine Award
Photo: Battmung

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Eco Centro Allpa Tarpuna

Eco Centro Allpa Tarpuna works for the regeneration of degraded lands, food sovereignty and community autonomy, with a focus on indigenous communities in Ecuador.

Founded in 2004, it was born out of the return of its founders to their community after experiencing the negative impacts of conventional agriculture and agrochemicals. This return marked the beginning of a path towards reconnecting with indigenous ancestral knowledge and adopting permaculture and organic production.

One of the key achievements has been the recovery of soils degraded by monocultures and eucalyptus. Although slow, this process has demonstrated the benefits of a regenerative approach and strengthened the resilience of the community. Allpa Tarpuna is currently focusing on:

  • Training local communities in sustainable practices.
  • Rescuing and preserving indigenous ancestral knowledge.
  • Promoting food self-sufficiency.

Allpa Tarpuna integrates bio-construction, renewable energy and sustainable water management into its practices. It also encourages the preservation of ancestral seeds and agro-ecological techniques such as crop rotation, reducing dependence on chemicals.

In the future, it wants to expand its training in permaculture design, combining indigenous knowledge with modern regenerative solutions. It seeks to empower more local farmers, promoting designs that restore the connection between people and nature.

Allpa Tarpuna is a living indigenous family that sows regeneration, inspiring a sustainable and resilient balance.

  • 2025
  • Permaculture Magazine Award
Photo: Eco Centro Allpa Tarpuna

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Forest School Mikke

Located in the mountainous island of Shikoku, Japan, Forest School Mikke exists to foster a culture of creative actions towards a sustainable and regenerative society.

Mikke is based in Kamiyama, a small town in Tokushima Prefecture. Like many rural towns across Japan, Kamiyama is on a path towards an ageing society and needs to create a reason for younger people to move to or stay in the town. It is within this context that Mikke is engaged in two major initiatives: school management and forest restoration.

Mikke is an alternative school where elementary school-aged children (6–12 years old) learn through an interdisciplinary curriculum based on food, clothing, and shelter, using the forest as a learning environment. Since its opening in 2022, 28 students have enrolled, and 191 participants have joined short-term programs such as summer school. Through its educational activities, Mikke fosters exchanges between people of different generations, fields, and backgrounds in the community. To date, it has held 11 community events with a total of 270 participants.

Like other rural areas in the region, Kamiyama is covered with unharvested monoculture forests of cedar and cypress, planted as part of post-war policies. This has led to a decrease in biodiversity, soil degradation and other undesirable downstream effects. The team at Mikke works to restore these neglected forests so sunlight can reach the forest floor and foster healthy ecosystems. Mikke has planted 70 fruit trees. By the autumn of 2026, to coincide with a new school building, Mikke aims to source timber from its own land and set up a firewood station.

  • 2025
  • Permaculture Magazine Award
Photo: Forest School Mikke

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Habilin Farms

Habilin Farms is a hub for both agro-education and community empowerment in the Philippines, offering workshops, training, and hands-on experiences in permaculture and sustainable living.

Founded by a small group of like-minded individuals, the farm started as a modest initiative to grow organic produce while practicing regenerative farming methods. Located in the rural landscapes of Tayabas, Quezon, the farm sits on fertile land surrounded by rich biodiversity and native flora, making it an ideal hub for permaculture. Over time, Habilin Farms evolved into a model of eco-tourism and community empowerment, offering immersive experiences like bamboo workshops, forest camping, and farm-to-table meals.

Since its founding, the farm has made some significant achievements, including:

  • Building a strong connection with local farmers through the Organic Farmers’ Association.
  • Supporting small scale farmers through projects like the Farm-to-Tray Project, a collaboration with local hospitals that provides healthy, chemical-free vegetables from organic farmers.
  • Implementing a locally focused organic certification scheme (known as a Participatory Guarantee System).
  • Successfully lobbying for the passing of a city ordinance institutionalising organic agriculture in Tayabas.
  • Conducting several permaculture workshops and creating opportunities for eco-conscious visitors to engage in nature-based activities.

Its ongoing initiatives aim to expand organic agriculture, eco-tourism, and community-based projects, further establishing Habilin Farms as a pioneer in sustainable development and regeneration in the region.

  • 2025
  • Permaculture Magazine Award
Photo: Habilin Farms

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HortaFCUL

HortaFCUL is a community-based permaculture project based in Lisbon University’s Faculty of Sciences (FCUL). The initiative was launched by a group of biology students concerned about the gap between sustainability ideals and the university’s environmental impact.

This bottom-up project has developed an important role as a catalyst of practical scientific-based knowledge. Nowadays, HortaFCUL is a resilient, sustainable and inclusive community, allowing the general public to learn more about nature-based solutions. It has five subprojects at campus level and relies on a volunteer-based horizontally-organised guardians collective to maintain the project’s green areas.

HortaFCUL, as a permaculture project, achieves its central goals by closing functional loops related to human activities. For example:

  • Social cycle: HortaFCUL has organized more than 200 workshops, talks and guided tours with over 5,000 people. Topics are related to food production, ecosystem management and social group dynamics. HortaFCUL has also held more than 450 working days inviting volunteers to join activities.
  • Knowledge cycle: So far, HortaFCUL has produced more than 10 scientific written outputs.
  • Production cycle: HortaFCUL has produced nearly 50 metric tons of compost made by guardians and volunteers using the organic residuals from the campus gardens.
  • Ecological cycle: HortaFCUL has four complex ecosystems, which include an edible garden, several agroforests, two tiny fast growth forests and many raised beds. HortaFCUL has on average 20 perennial plant species per 100 metres squared.
  • Materials cycle: Most of the infrastructure present in the project is upcycled from used materials, like woods, metal or carpets.
  • 2025
  • Permaculture Magazine Award

NGO Permaculture in Ukraine

Coordinating a network of permaculture centres, NGO Permaculture Ukraine offers training, events and educational resources across Ukraine, also ensuring accessibility for internally displaced people (IDP) and former military personnel.

The organisation was founded following the first Permaculture Design Course (PDC) in Ukraine in 2011, and has held at least one PDC annually, actively seeking funding to make training accessible to vulnerable groups.

Following the full-scale invasion in 2022, its focus expanded to include:

  • Hosting displaced individuals.
  • Advancing food security.
  • Studying soil regeneration after military damage.
  • Using gardening as a tool for trauma rehabilitation and community rebuilding.

The 14 permaculture centres provide training, shelter for IDPs and war-abandoned animals, and rehabilitation for children and adults. Its designers also create communal projects, including schools and homes for disabled people. Despite air raids and blackouts, NGO Permaculture Ukraine successfully hosted a two-day permaculture festival in Kyiv’s botanical garden in September 2024, drawing 100 participants eager to engage with top regenerative practitioners.

NGO Permaculture Ukraine empowers Ukrainians for sustainable living and transformative change. Through active social media engagement and collaborations with ecovillages, zero-waste networks, and other ecological movements, it extends its influence and inspires a growing audience to adopt permaculture principles for Ukraine’s regeneration.

  • 2025
  • Permaculture Magazine Award
Photo: NGO Permaculture in Ukraine

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Seaforestation

Seaforestation.co regenerates life in the ocean and revitalises livelihoods for seaweed farmers, smallholder rice farmers, and coastal communities – many of whom are on the frontlines of climate disruption.

Founded in 2022, Seaforestation.co was established to address the urgent need for ocean regeneration and climate justice. Specifically, the organization focuses on restoring primary productivity in marine ecosystems, which are essential for global food security and stabilising economies in coastal and rural areas affected by climate change. By fostering sustainable economies and introducing innovative marine permaculture techniques, Seaforestation.co works to foster sustainable economies while  addressing critical environmental and economic challenges.

Operating across national borders, Seaforestation.co targets economically disadvantaged communities, particularly in Southeast Asia. It has established operations in regions such as the Central Philippines, where climate impacts are most severe. Many of these communities depend on vulnerable ecosystems for their survival, including seaweed farming and rice cultivation, both of which are increasingly threatened by heatwaves, droughts, and floods.

Seaforestation has successfully implemented a half-acre marine permaculture pilot, demonstrating the effectiveness of regenerative ocean farming. This initiative has enabled the production of over 8,000 litres of seaweed biostimulant, benefiting nearly a thousand rice farmers by improving crop resilience and yields in the face of climate challenges.

  • 2025
  • Permaculture Magazine Award
Photo: Seaforestation

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The Mesoamerican Permaculture Institute

The Mesoamerican Permaculture Institute (IMAP) was founded in 2000 by a group of Maya Kaqchikel community members from San Lucas Tolimán, along the shores of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala.

The founders were deeply concerned about the environmental and social problems that affected so many living beings around the lake. The forced imposition of monoculture cash crops threatened communities’ food sovereignty, reduced land access, and contributed to environmental degradation. These farmers knew their ancestors lived in harmony with nature, stewarding the land and caring for their communities’ food and medicinal needs with native plants. However, colonialism violently wrested those cultural, spiritual, and agricultural practices from communities.

IMAP has worked for 24 years, combining permaculture education with the recuperation and application of ancestral knowledge. It develops knowledge and skills needed to guarantee food sovereignty, community development and biodiversity. IMAP has supported 15,000+ small farmers to produce, harvest, and use native plants and seeds like amaranth and chia in polyculture plots. These plants are better adapted to local conditions and resistant to disease, fighting malnutrition and helping local people become more resilient in the face of climate change.

IMAP believes efforts to support local biodiversity must include:

  • Embracing local growing traditions.
  • Invigorating the rural economy.
  • Preserving Indigenous cultures.

By focusing on food sovereignty – the right to produce and eat wholesome, culturally relevant food – sustainable, agroecological solutions are created that provide sustenance, promote ancestral practices, and support campesino farming based on respect for Mother Earth.

  • 2025
  • Permaculture Magazine Award
Photo: The Mesoamerican Permaculture Institute

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The Pitak Project

Through various projects, community engagements, and deep respect for traditional knowledge, The Pitak Project has empowered smallholder farmers and countless members of the public to become aware of and embrace practices that honour both the earth and its peoples.

Founded in 2013, in Northern Luzon, Philippines, Pitak is a less-than-hectare farm located 250 feet above sea-level. Pitak is the Ilocano (the main language spoken in Northern Philippines) term for mud. The name symbolises the bond of the rich soil and water that gives life. It also embodies the founders’ aspiration to build naturally and produce food the permaculture way. This humble piece of land has become a living classroom and a vibrant hub of life and living.

Pitak’s work includes regenerative agriculture that revitalises soil health and ecosystems, while also supporting local smallholder farmers to secure sustainable livelihoods. The work is not just about farming: it’s about healing the disconnect that so often divides people from the very soil beneath their feet. It applies regenerative principles in both the cultivation of the land and the cultivation of the community, aiming for solutions that enhance food security, well-being, and dignity. Its initiatives foster economic independence, preserve indigenous knowledge, and build resilience in the face of challenges like climate change and resource scarcity.

Pitak believes in the power of small-scale, grassroots efforts to ignite significant change. The impact has rippled outwards, inspiring similar initiatives that continue to contribute to forging a network of practitioners who are committed to ecological and social regeneration.

  • 2025
  • Permaculture Magazine Award
Photo: The Pitak Project

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Youth Initiative for Community Empowerment

Youth Initiative for Community Empowerment (YICE) is a refugee-led organization that focuses on implementing regenerative practices for subsistence farmers in rural Uganda, especially women, youth, and refugees.

YICE employs permaculture techniques that align with nature, enabling larger harvests, reducing deforestation, and maintaining healthy soil and water, which helps mitigate climate change. In Kassanda and Isingiro Districts, YICE trains rural communities, equipping them with practical skills to enhance nutrition and earnings while fostering collaboration through small groups. The organization also provides vital resources like farming equipment, water harvesting kits, and seeds, which many farmers find unaffordable.

YICE empowers trainees to achieve sustainable food security, improve health, restore soil and water, and build economic resilience. By collaborating with local agricultural organizations and government entities, YICE offers tailored training in regenerative farming and climate change awareness, along with ongoing support for establishing traditional food gardens and fruit tree plantings.

Since its inception, YICE has:

  • Directly impacted 8,540 individuals (81% women and children) who have achieved a 75% increase in food security and a 34% increase in incomes from food sales.
  • Planted nearly 8,000 fruit trees and regenerated over 1,000 acres of land.
  • Earned multiple awards, including the 2019 Spring Prize Award under Young Projects Category, the 2021 Ashden Award for Regenerative Farming, the 2019 UNDP Climate Change Award and the 2020 Youth, Water and Climate Award
  • 2025
  • Permaculture Magazine Award
Photo: Youth Initiative for Community Empowerment

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