ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the project in Eastern Zimbabwe, to understand its success and consider the extent to which it could become a model. In permaculture the edge between two kinds of plant communities is regarded as particularly productive, sharing opportunities from each ecological zone. For example, the edge between forest and pasture. Chikukwa is such an edge. It is on the edge of a mountainous region, bordering a national park, a pine plantation and the country of Mozambique. The Chikuwka project is an indigenous 'Southern' solution to a problem typical of South-Eastern Africa. This is the failure of food security in rural areas. This is a problem that is acknowledged internationally. In response, elements of the middle class of the rich countries seek a solution to these problems in aid work. The new landscape of the Chikukwa villages is a landscape informed by permaculture design, implemented through a multitude of tiny decisions.
