About Permaculture Impact
Permaculture Impact is for permaculture and agroecological projects and organisations that are working with communities anywhere in the world.
Content has been developed in collaboration with community permaculture projects in Bolivia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malawi and Nepal.
The courses and resources are offered free of charge, and are suitable for projects that are just starting out, as well as those that are already up and running.
The website is currently only available in English, but we hope to widen this to other languages in the future.
Let us know which languages you would like!
Kate Swatridge
CO-FOUNDER
Kate completed her Permaculture Design Certificate in Malawi in 2014, after discovering permaculture in Ecuador, and taking an Intro to Permaculture course in Wales in 2006. She is a freelance analytical consultant with 25 years experience. She is currently hatching MEVIL* plans (and a few other things) at the International Permaculture CoLab, and is a Director and Fellow of the The Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems in the UK.
Kate co-founded Malawi Schools Permaculture Clubs, and has direct experience of the challenges faced by resource-stretched community permaculture projects to understand and communicate their impact.
*Monitoring, Evaluation, Value, Impact and Learning.
Anne-Marie Mayer
CO-FOUNDER
Anne-Marie is a nutrition and agriculture consultant working on research, design and training for sustainable development. She has extensive experience on links between agriculture and nutrition, particularly in the global south and is passionate about sustainable solutions for both. She has worked in academia, non-government other international organisations on research, design and documentation of programmes and policies involving nutrition.
She has a PhD in international nutrition with epidemiology and soil science from Cornell University USA and a particular interest in nutritional quality of foods. She studied and taught permaculture design in the 1990s and applies the principles of permaculture design to her work in international development.
In 2018, Anne-Marie conducted a nutrition-sensitive outcome evaluation of the Himalayan Permaculture Centre in Nepal as a case study. In 2019, Anne-Marie carried out a review of 13 Permaculture projects for nutrition impact along with her colleague Elizabeth Westaway.
She is currently providing training on nutrition and the links to permaculture and evaluation. This brings together her long-standing interests and skills in these areas.
Aimee Fenech
Tech Support
Aimee Fenech is a member of the Digital Circle team supporting the Permaculture Impact Project.
An experienced freelance project manager, land steward, group process facilitator, permaculture teacher and student.
Candida Shinn
TEAM MEMBER
Candida Shinn joined the Permaculture Impact team in 2024.
Luis Tiago
BRANDING & TECH SUPPORT
PARTNERS
Permaculture Impact is a project of The Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems, in partnership with Permaculture Association Britain. Its development has been funded through a grant from an anonymous charitable foundation, and materials are free to use for all.
This website is a product of the first phase of Permaculture Impact. (You may have encountered us under our working title of Permaculture Evaluation Toolkit.) . We have also collaborated with Revaluation to create Revaluation for Community Permaculture Projects.