Below is a draft of an article for the Christmas 1995 edition of the
Permaculture International Journal.
ARTICLE ABOUT CESTA IN EL SALVADOR FOR THE PERMACULTURE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
ATTENTION: ANA OR STEVE PAYNE.
Permaculture In El Salvador.
Wayne Wadsworth (Wadzy) has recently returned to Australia from El Salvador,
where he has been working for The Centre for Appropriate Technology, CESTA,
for the past year. In the following article Wayne explains Permaculture work
with Juan Rojas and CESTA.
Juan Rojas has been working in El Salvador teaching Permaculture for the
past two years. He is teaching in San Salvador and Morazan. Morazan is
in a remote area of El Salvador where Juan has access to a couple of
hectares of land to help develop a Permaculture project with a local
peasants co-operative. Juan and me did our Permaculture course in Crystal
Waters (Queensland, Australia) and had both intended to go to Cuba to help
set up Permaculture there. Due to delays establishing the project in Cuba,
Juan decided to return to his country and teach Permaculture there. (The
project in Cuba has now been running for two year, with great success).
Ricardo Navarro, the President of the El Salvadoran Centre for
Appropriate Technology (CESTA) did a speaking tour of Australia in 1993, during
which time he asked the Overseas Service Bureau to fund a position for a
Permaculture worker to teach Permaculture in El Salvador.
Ricardo Navarro was one of the founding members of CESTA which was set up
about ten years ago to tackle ecological problems facing the country.