CoLab Podcast – Series 2, Episode 5

Fikile Marbel Vilakazi-Alberts – The African Landless Permaculturist Project: Ikhwelo Healers Collective

This project will conduct research into what challenges traditional indigenous healers encounter when accessing land for growing food and traditional medicines, particularly from those working from a permaculture perspective and way of life. The project hopes to highlight the barriers that exist when trying to access land, for example to negotiate land owned by a village, economic problems, low income issues, gender inequalities and colonisation.

The next stage is to investigate opportunities to access land, and also the processes, costs, and relevant laws, learning from successful low-capital permaculturists and land gatekeepers. They then hope to publish a guide on creative land access for permaculture, disseminate it to grassroots groups in permaculture. It will talk about traditional healing, agroecology, and food sovereignty, initially in English and then one in their indigenous language.

They will develop a framework from their research to address land access and use in South Africa, offering insights for the rest of Africa, the Global South, and landless permaculturists globally. This framework and their findings will be shared with the CoLab to inspire and enable similar regional initiatives.

CoLab Podcast with Fikile © 2024 by Learn Team is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

The creation of this podcast episode was made possible through funding received from the Emergent Festival.

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