IPES Director Karen INwood to talk at Northern universities

Karen Inwood Director of the Instituto de Permacultra de El Salvador (IPES) will be speaking at universities in the North of England during the last week of November.

Wed 24 - Manchester Uni, Alan Turner Building Room G.107, 3-6pm (stalls from 3.30, talks 4-5.30, stalls til 6pm) - Latin American Activist Conference.

Thur 25 - Leeds Uni (room tbc) 1-3pm for talk and Q&A

Fri 26 - Bradford Uni 5-7pm (room tbc)

For those of you who have seen her talk in the past, this is an opportunity to find out what IPES has been doing in the last year. For those of you who haven't heard about IPES, it is a fantastic project support subsistence farmers in El Salvador to develop resilient and sustainable communities. They have been focusing on food soverienty recently working along side other local organisations. IPES is a flagship permaculture project involved in supporting people in El Salvador to make changes in their lives.

Email world@permaculture.org.uk for room details

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