What is Permaculture design?

🌱 What if Permaculture could feed an entire country?

What if land management began with healing the land and nurturing human connections? This is the premise of the Aménopé Farm in Togo, where they are rethinking how we produce, live, and coexist. A small farm with a grand vision: a country nourished healthily and sustainably, guided by permaculture.

Another agricultural model is possible

In Togo, nearly 60% of the population are farmers. Yet, the country remains dependent on food imports. Land is often degraded by intensive farming practices, young people are leaving rural areas, and biodiversity is declining. Faced with these challenges, permaculture offers a concrete, local, and above all, realistic solution.

But on what scale? A study inspired by micro-farm and forest garden models shows that it is possible to feed one person on approximately 0.1 to 0.15 hectares with a well-designed permaculture system. To feed Togo's 8.6 million inhabitants healthily, it would therefore only require:

👉 860,000 to 1,290,000 hectares,

or 15 to 23% of the country's total area (Togo is approximately 5.7 million hectares).

This is entirely feasible, especially since these systems restore fertility, capture water, store carbon, and generate genuine food self-sufficiency. And above all: they give communities the means to thrive on their own land.

To develop is to regenerate.

At Ferme Aménopé, this vision takes concrete root:

• Agroforestry, forest garden, composting, eco-construction, and sustainable livestock farming.

• Knowledge sharing through a Permaculture School.

• Strong social integration with young people, elders, artists, and villagers.
  

Here, we don't pave over the land: we regenerate it. Every tree planted, every hedgerow, every heirloom seed sown is an act of sustainable development. Permaculture design becomes a living urban planning strategy, respectful of both ecosystems and cultural dynamics.

An Ethical Compass

Permaculture rests on three simple yet powerful principles:

1. Care for the earth.

2. Care for people.

3. Share resources equitably
   

At Aménopé, these principles are not slogans, but daily practices. It is a replicable model, a credible alternative to destructive food systems. It is also an invitation to rethink our relationship with the land: no longer as a space to dominate, but as a living environment to cultivate intelligently

For Togolese Food Sovereignty

Developing the land through permaculture means investing in resilience, health, local employment, biodiversity, and beauty. It means enabling Togo to become a laboratory for food sovereignty in West Africa.

What if tomorrow, this dream became a reality?
All that's missing are partners, supporters, and intermediaries. People and institutions ready to bet, like us, on life.

CONTACT US:

amenope.togo@gmail.com

Tel: +228 92 67 00 00