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Mahayana Permaculture

, East Kalimantan, Indonesia • 4 Employees
Renewables & Environment

Mahayana Permaculture is a company that designs, grows and manages food production systems based on permaculture principles. Permaculture is a design science based on mimicking efficient natural systems for productivity. Huge swaths of land are deforested for food and energy production in Indonesia, contributing to global climate change. Despite this, hunger and malnutrition remains a national problem. This scenario is a microcosm of problems in other tropical developing countries. Our solution is to convert degraded lands into permaculture forests that produce food and bioenergy. By emulating nature, we can create a biodiverse system that requires minimal input for maximum yields with numerous positive externalities that a tropical forest brings. This creates a highly efficient, closed loop, and carbon negative system.Upscaled to 50 million hectares globally, our system can potentially improve the livelihoods of 1 billion people worldwide and halve global agricultural emissions by 2050.