Mesoamerican Permaculture Institute IMAP
Since its inception, IMAP has trained more than 10,000 small producers in the production and harvest of native plants and the conservation of resistant native seeds, significantly increasing the ability of men and women to adapt to climate variability, strengthening the local market, and promoting food sovereignty.
IMAP also focuses on fighting malnutrition in Guatemala, improving nutritional quality through highly nutritious crops, such as amaranth and chan.
The impact is measured through annual impact reports of each of the achievements that were obtained.
Size and/or structure
Now we have facilities for training, food prepared with fresh ingredients from our garden, and lodging in our cabins.
Key offerings
We have developed our services, products and programs to include:
- Services such as courses, workshops, tours, consultancies, certified courses, and an educational residency program.
- Products such as native and creole seeds, medicinal plants, pylons or stems, amaranth products, coffee, honey, jams, and handicrafts.
- Programs such as education, biodiversity, food sovereignty, and Institutional strengthening programs.
How do you collaborate or work with others
To promote food sovereignty and the conservation of biodiversity, empowering individuals and communities in Mesoamerican Permaculture Institute IMAP.
Growth
Education: Improve our documentation center, also systematize popular knowledge, and create and design contextualized educational materials.
Biodiversity: Systematize the best local practices to produce seeds.
Food Sovereignty: Promoting the diversification of products and services that producer families can offer and thus contribute to the strengthening of marketing and distribution systems.
Institutional Strengthening: Promote continuous training and a good work environment for the IMAP team.
Quality
Through Mesoamerican Permaculture Institute IMAP education, knowledge of ancestral knowledge is strengthened through practices, applying the ethics of permaculture, caring for the earth, caring for people, and sharing resources, promoting the coexistence of biodiversity. with each of the ecosystems.
Ensure that the extension of alternative knowledge has a national and international scope, to publicize the work that IMAP carries out with the indigenous communities of Guatemala.
Growth
Education: Apply permaculture principles and ancestral knowledge in the plots, communities, houses, and social structures. In addition, we want to collect good harvest and post-harvest practices in diversified plots.
Biodiversity: This work area includes activities such as maintenance of the processing center, and compliance with sanitary and legal regulations.
Food Sovereignty: Enforcement of compliance with sanitary and legal regulations, the exchange of knowledge, and the facilitation of access to educational materials.
Institutional Strengthening: Ensure the solvency of the institution before official entities, allies, and communities and guarantee the efficient and ethical use of resources.
Quality
Empower a diversity of people who seek good living by applying Permacultural techniques and agroecological culture.
Impact
Promote food sovereignty, respecting diversity, strengthening communities and people who want to know a good life, through a responsible consumption of natural resources.
