Himalayan Permaculture Centre

HPC was founded in 2011 as a village-based NGO (registered at SWC and district CDO levels), an offshoot from 2 previous local permaculture programs spanning over 35 years of applied rural development in Nepal. Since 2011, HPC has progressed through designed phases of development, starting with it’s own capacity building and 5 village groups, and is currently at the end of Phase 4 working directly in 31 villages of Surkhet & Humla districts, with influence in many other districts throughout Nepal via its trained “barefoot consultants”(BCs). The BCs have trained and worked along with staff – all farmers themselves – to create outputs such as over 16,000 farmers trained in agroecological practices, 178 demonstration farmers, 690 kitchen gardens, over 87,000 fruit trees and 132,000 multi-purpose trees and shrubs planted, 800 smokeless stoves built, over 20,400 livestock treated by barefoot vets, 3,243 women trained in women’s health and 2,500 treated at women’s health camps; 731 adults trained in adult literacy, and through local micro-finance schemes, over US$173,000 equivalent loans provided to over 1,900 households.
HPC’s integrated and holistic approach means that its activities directly work towards 16 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - #14 “Life Below Water” being the only one it does not directly address!

Agroecology Demonstration & Training Centre.

To collaboratively design and create resilient, abundant communities having ecological, social and economic sustainability.
Through dynamic and innovative programming, communities will be able to provide for their own water, food, health and energy needs, becoming not only sustainable but truly regenerative, joining the global effort to create ecological, social and economic abundance