Brazil

12,000 acres hectares

The organization integrate Vedic principles such as Ahimsa (non-violence) and Bhakti (devotional service) into agricultural education practices that enhance life and abundance, like agroforestry practices, crop diversification, and permaculture design. In fact the organization has adopted the term Premaculture to describe this fusion. The program preserves indigenous knowledge and resources like seed saving, Vedic-aligned farming traditions while fostering cooperative community engagement, like CSA (community supported agriculture) and the revival of community events like harvest festivals. Cow protection is emphasized as a mature stage of this development as it requires a stable community and resources to be successful and sustainable. Therefore the first emphasis is on building a solid foundation for regenerative agriculture.

Servio de restaurao de terra Tenho 36 anos de experiencia em organizao comunitria, construo e administrao de hortas e lavouras comunitria, aproveitando espaos ociosos da estrutura governamental, onde se destacavam bolses de proliferao de mosquito da dengue e uso de entorpecentes. Transformando dor em amor. Consultoria para ribeirinhos, indgenas e afro descentes, na elaborao e gesto de organizaes sociais: Realizaes: Projeto Me Terra, Em Alvorada Tocantins nos anos de 1990 -1991, Projeto vivendo da terra, Em Palmas Tocantins. Desde 1996 at hoje. Lavoura e hortas comunitrias para nutrio e gerao de renda das famlias participantes. No atual momento, estou fazendo aquisio de um espao do poder pblico, ocioso onde ser desenvolvido o programa viva a vida. Vamos trabalhar capacitao de lideranas de todo o estado, para elaborao e gesto de projetos ambientais, horto de plantas medicinais com pessoas idosos, e um espao para apoio das aves que expulsas de seus habitat natural, em busca de alimento vem buscar refugio na cidade. O maior desafio a falta de recursos financeiros para fazer a formao de agentes multiplicadores com amplo domnio da legislao ambiental; o segundo o monoplio poltico administrativo. Pois preciso conhecimento e coragem para enfrentar os monocultores que mais destroem a natureza; o terceiro a falta de recursos para implementao dos projetos, visto que as exigncias para se financiar os projetos ambientais no Brasil so incompatveis com a capacidade tcnica e gerencial das lideranas locais.

The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University, operating in over 130 nations, integrates spiritual principles with land rehabilitation through various ongoing initiatives. Their flagship project, the Kalptaruh campaign, is a youth-driven, non-profit environmental movement rooted in the motto "One Person, One Plant for One Planet." Kalptaruh has already brought to fruition 1.67 million GPS-located native tree plantings acros India with robust partnerships, encompassing communities, schools, local governments, and spiritual groups. It earned the Biodiversity Savior Award from the Andhra Pradesh State Government in 2022 and was acknowledged by the President of India. The organization hPermaculture, and Agroforestry practices in degraded areas with low rainfall in Brazil. This opportunity will be a good boost to Brahma Kumaris's visions of doing land restoration activities based on eco-spirituality principles. The organization currently lack technical expertise in large-scale landscape monitoring and the use of specialized ecological restoration tools. Scaling their initiatives presents complexities, especially in standardizing restoration practices acros their globally and culturally diverse network. Even with these obstacles, the organization draw immense strength from their communitys profound inner commitment to non-violence, simplicity, and service.

The organization is involved in two restoration projects. The first leaded by Instituto Makarapy, specialized in agroecology in indigenous territories, where their agriculture school named Casa Familiar Rural will execute the proces of training and restoration practices in 3 agrarian reform settlements envisioning agroforestry systems. The second one is leaded by the Central Cooperative of the landles movement (MST) and the organization will execute the trainings and implementation of agroforestry systems in 3 other agrarian reform settlements and 5 small household communities. The expansion and economic harassment of soybean monoculture farmers. Even this deal being completely illegal, because these lands are protected by the laws of the agrarian reform and their institutions. The next step is to completely deforest the farm, destroying and setting fire to the Amazon rainforest.

The organization participate in two land restoration projects. The first in partnership with Instituto Makarapy, specialized in work with indigenous peoples, where their agriculture school, named Casa Familiar Rural, will execute the training component and the restoration in 3 land reform settlements in West Amazon Region of Maranhao State, in Brazil. The second project is a partnership with the Central Cooperative of the landles movement (MST). In this alliance the organization will be responsible for the training program in 3 other land reforma settlements in the municipality of Aailndia, in Maranhao State, Northeast Brazil. Both restoration projects consist of agroforestry systems that prioritize food production while accelerating the regeneration of the Amazon rainforest The expansion of the soybean monoculture, almost totally for exportation through illegal land hiring or purchasing (because it happens in land protected by land reform laws and institutions).