It’s Friday morning in the native community of Santa Clara. The grey blanket of clouds over the permaculture site doesn’t promise anything but rain. Still, classrooms of the nearby primary school are empty and the students are outside, grouped around … Continue reading Educational Gardens in Santa Clara
This blog post is written by Jessica Karlsson, who has been working with Alianza Arkana as part of her work with one of our international partners – the Swedish nonprofit ‘Asociación Sueca Amazónica’. A slow start The clock hits seven … Continue reading Workshop in Nuevo Saposoa with youth of Santa Clara
As the year draws to a close, we want to list our 16 major achievements for 2016 – as we listed the 15 major achievements for 2015 at the end of last year. Our total operating budget for this year … Continue reading 16 MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS FOR 2016
You can also read this post in Spanish and in French. In the indigenous community of Santa Clara, Alianza Arkana is conducting a Permaculture project with three main goals: reforestation, food security and preservation of the Shipibo culture. But why … Continue reading In Santa Clara, Permaculture has become a tool for reforestation
On Wednesday 24th August, Dr Paul Roberts and Marcos Urquia, Directors of Intercultural Education and Permaculture respectively for Alianza Arkana, had an important meeting with the community of Santa Clara. Santa Clara is a medium-sized Shipibo community, located about one … Continue reading Community Engagement in Santa Clara
Marcos Urquia, an agronomist specialised in permaculture, has led diverse projects in indigenous Amazonian communities and currently collaborates with Alianza Arkana. In the following interview, which took place on 12 February 2016, Marcos shares with us his experiences of the many … Continue reading Sowing Buen Vivir in the Peruvian Amazon
On Thursday 26th November 2015 – during the week in Peru dedicated to activities related to intercultural education – Alianza Arkana, together with the Shipibo community of Santa Clara, hosted a visit of ten intercultural teachers and teacher trainers. The … Continue reading Educating Interculturally
Last Saturday 14th November 2015, four of us from the Alianza Arkana team went to the 30th Anniversary of the founding of the Shipibo community of Santa Clara, with whom we have been working closely for the last year and … Continue reading Celebrating the Anniversary of Santa Clara
Learning how to navigate the complex politics of food and motherhood in Santa Clara hasn’t been easy, but we’ve come a long way in the six months since beginning our Grow and Cook program here, opening up space for healing … Continue reading From Food Desert to Food Forest: Growing and Cooking in Santa Clara
This June Shipibo permaculture experts, Fernando and Reuben, facilitated a workshop for the indigenous youth of Santa Clara at the San Francisco community permaculture demonstration site. Fernando and Reuben are leaders of the Alianza Arkana Bena Nii (New Forest) permaculture … Continue reading Planting Seedlings of Hope: Shipibo Permaculture Workshop in Santa Clara
This is a post written by several hands, by Shipibo permaculture leaders Marcos Urquia, Roberto Muñoz, and Fernando Cauper. These are the voices of the Shipibo with and for whom we work. In 1996 “modern permaculture” came to San Francisco … Continue reading Shipibo Permaculture: How far have we come and where are we going?
Last week in the Shipibo indigenous community of Santa Clara a 5-day Introduction Course to Ecological Farming unfolded in beautiful and unexpected ways… A Brief History Since 2012, Alianza Arkana has been supporting the Bena Nii-New Forest Permaculture program creating … Continue reading The Multiplier Effect: Indigenous Permaculture in the Amazon
