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GCSE Geography · key term
Designing food-growing and living systems to work with natural processes, conserve resources and minimise waste.
Used by AQA and OCR
Specification 3.2.3.2 · Paper 2
Revise: Sustainable Food Production and Local SchemesPermaculture designs farming and living systems around natural processes. It goes beyond avoiding particular chemicals: the aim is to connect activities so that resources are reused and waste is reduced.
Specification 8.2c · Paper 2, Paper 3
An integrated approach to designing sustainable systems using patterns and processes found in nature, linking food production with soil, water, biodiversity and people's needs.
Revise: Small-Scale and 'Bottom-Up' Food StrategiesPermaculture is a design approach that uses relationships found in natural systems to make food production and other activities more sustainable. Rather than treating a vegetable bed, water supply and waste bin as separate things, it asks how they can support one another.
Distinguish an urban garden, which describes where food is grown, from permaculture, which describes how a system is designed.
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