Growing Knowledge & Building Partnerships

Guyana is a special presence in South America with its unique devotion to sustainable agriculture and biodiversity. Permaculture techniques are increasingly popular among the environmentally-conscious smallholder farmers in Guyana as they include organic farming, agroforestry, integrated farming, and ecology. F2F Guyana's host, The Permaculture-Sahakari and Organic Gardeners Group, is a network of permaculture and organic gardeners and farmers in Guyana with 82 members. The Permaculture-Sahakari and Organic Gardeners Group organization began in 2019 as a WhatsApp group where members shared knowledge and m arket ed organic products; the group has since formalized and seeks to expand the capacity of its members in permaculture. With only two members formally trained in permaculture, the members reached out to F2F Guyana to request volunteer technical assistance. F2F Guyana leveraged its extensive volunteer network to recruit experts to build the permaculture group’s capaci