Terry Leahy has been involved in the permaculture movement since its founding in 1978. He has lectured in universities since 1973 and retired at the end of 2016. His recent book, Food Security for Rural Africa: Feeding the Farmers First (Routledge, 2018), outlines a permaculture strategy for Africa and shows how projects can be designed to make this work in practice.
'Based on decades of experience in the Global South and in the Global North, this concise book analyses the multiple dimensions of permaculture as a practice, an ethic, an experience, a worldview, a personal commitment and, for sure, a part of a social movement that will hopefully contribute to a deep change our world very much requires' -- Geoffrey Pleyers, Vice-President of the International Sociological Association and author of 'Alter-Globalization: Becoming Actors in the Global Age' (Polity, 2011) 'Some declare that permaculture is the biggest and fastest moving people's movement in the world. Terry Leahy gives us what is possibly the first permaculture book to examine thoroughly permaculture from a sociological point of view and its potential to undermine the systems driving Earth to degradation and immoral social inequity' -- Rosemary Morrow, author of 'Permaculture Teaching Matters' (Permanent Publications, 2010)