A film by Charles Mugarura, Chief Executive Officer and Permaculture Designer at BEU Permaculture, Uganda. BEU are introducing their Permaculture Arboretum, based on permaculture and agroforestry principles. With the aim of to developing a multipurpose arboretum, BEU restore a once-damaged ecosystem while creating an abundance of food, and a space for education and learning. The Permaculture Arboretum produces organic food as well as herbal medicine, integrating a variety of over 500 plant species in the multi-layered food forest.

Watch the full film here: https://youtu.be/w931oNAbBvs Over the past three years, Green Releaf Initiative has prototyped two projects that aimed to respond to and prevent disasters, in contexts of climate and conflict vulnerability in the Philippines. Green Releaf has been working with Permaculture as an approach to address food security, regenerative livelihood, and ecosystem restoration. They have a community-led approach, working with early adapters as grassroots permaculture leaders to train as multipliers. They also aim to highlight the traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) from the community, honouring their earth wisdom as key to the community's resilience. Featuring grassroots community leaders from areas affected by disasters and displacement where Green Releaf worked, this film begins to document the knowledge learned and practices implemented over time.

With the COVID-19 pandemic restricting access to school in Nepal, one group of teenagers is taking their education into their own hands with a Permaculture diploma course. Re-Alliance member Almost Heaven Farms (permaculturenepal.com) is the setting of this short film made by young Permaculture practitioners. "We are a group of teenagers age 13-17 who have grown up on Almost Heaven Farms, a permaculture education centre in the hillside of the eastern Himalayas. We miss going to school and especially seeing our friends. But the problem is the solution. We need to be educated, we need to learn. It doesn’t look like the schools are going to open anytime soon. So the farm now becomes our full-time classroom." - Micah Zion

What does Regenerative Design have to offer the Humanitarian and Development sectors? Five Re-Alliance members explore their thoughts. With thanks to: Sarah Queblatin from Green Releaf Petra Schneider from Alam Santi Sahad Sarr from Kamyaak Village Caleb Omolo from Sustainable Village Resources Maurice Obuya from Kisumu City Permaculture Academy

Sarah Queblatin from Green Releaf asks the question, how might we design for resilience in times of disruption and crisis? Exploring the work of Green Releaf, Sarah describes a number of community led, regenerative design activities which were undertaken after multiple environmental disasters or conflict.

What is Regeneration? Five voices from the Regenerative movement briefly explain their thoughts, and why Regenerative design holds the solution to replenishing the world's damaged ecosystems. With thanks to: Warren Brush, co-founder of Quail Springs Permaculture, and Resilience Design Consultant Dorothy Guerrero, head of policy at Global Justice Now Andy Goldring, CEO of the UK Permaculture Association Daniel Wahl, author of Designing Regenerative Cultures Gamelihle Sibanda, Biomimicry South Africa

YICE Uganda (www.yiceug.org) supported refugees in the Bukompe settlement with Permaculture training and garden designing, effectively building livelihoods, food security and ecological health. Part of a Re-Alliance series of webinars. www.re-alliance.org

Internationally celebrated Permaculture teacher, and author of the book Earth User’s Guide to Permaculture, Rosemary Morrow (Australia) is interviewed by Green ReLeaf Executive Director and co-founder Sarah Queblatin (Philippines). Rosemary discusses her experience with hosting Permaculture Design Certificate courses (PDCs) in refugee settlements and the abundance of positive benefits it brings, as well as other topics. Rosemary Morrow and Sarah Queblatin are members of the Permaculture For Refugees collective, and Re-Alliance members. Permaculture For Refugees website: https://www.permacultureforrefugees.org Green ReLeaf’s website: https://www.greenreleaf.org/

Gisele Henriques (Sustainability Technical lead, CAFOD) and Noah Ssempijja (Founder, YICE Uganda) discuss environmental risk management tools and experience for humanitarian and development settings.