Curacao, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia – Syntropic and Permaculture Solutions
Roland van ReenenOrganization Name
Syntropic and Permaculture Solutions
Website
Country
Curacao, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia
Region or area served
East Africa, Dutch Caribbean
Individual Name
Roland van Reenen
Date Founded
May 2020
Trainers trained in 2021
472
Trainers trained to date
522
Formal Training
I took my PDC from Geoff Lawton, Regenerative Organic Agriculture from the Maharishi University in Iowa and Syntropoc Farming from Thiago Gimenez and Murilo de Lima (3 courses) Hydroponics from the University of the West Indies in Trinidad.
Specializations
Agroforestry, Organic Farming, Permaculture, Syntropic Farming, Regenerative Agriculture
Workshops conducted in 2021
26
Workshop attendees in 2021
472
% of men vs. women participate in project
60/40
Farms that implemented Agroforestry in 2021
65
Farms that implemented Agroforestry to date
85
Trees planted in 2021
4,730
Number of trees planted to date:
5570
Hectares planted in 2021:
.65
Percentage of nitrogen fixing trees vs. percentage of edibles:
40% biomass trees versus 60% fruit trees
Location of demonstration site
About 20 in Curacao, Kenya, Miyani, Siaya, Rusinga Island, Rongo, Kendu Bay, Narok, Kisumu, Nairobi, Navaisha, Uganda: Kitgum, Lira, Nakivale Refugee Settlement
About organization
In 2016 I started in the drought stricken island of Curacao to create food forest. Because of the success of the first food forest I was offered a job by the minister of agriculture (GMN) Suzy Carmelia Romer to create educational demonstration food forests. In 2019 I organized for the ministry a 5 days intensive course syntropic agroforestry, to be followed a year later by another beginners and an advanced course. As a way of thanking me for my contribution in the syntropic food forest revolution I was sent to Kenya where Willis Orum organized the first course in Kenya to be followed by many more courses.
Impacts
Syntropic Agroforestry bridges the gap between ecology and economy. It makes reforestation very attractive for farmers and thus increases the survival rate for planted trees drastically. As we say the vegetables finance the forest of the future.
Summary
Syntropic and Permaculture Solutions is dedicated to regenerate our beautiful earth and make it bountiful again as how it used to be. We are guided by our syntropic understanding that nature always moves forward in successive stages from entropy to syntropy, from simple to complex. It is our duty as mankind to accelerate those processes to restore what has been damaged while bridging the gap between ecology and economy. I provide trainings and consultancy to align people with natural regenerative knowledge that once was ours already.
