From job loss to permaculture pioneer: former waiter's unconventional approach may just be Tunisia's ticket to resilience amidst climate change
Saber Zouani lost his job as a waiter when the Covid pandemic ravaged the Tunisian tourism sector, so he decided to try something new and started a permaculture farm.
As an alternative to industrial agriculture, permaculture aims to work in harmony with the environment, keep soil structures intact, and do without artificial inputs such as chemical fertilisers or pesticides. At his farm, Zouani captures precious rainwater in a pond and only sparingly waters his plants, which are all grown from his own seeds.
Permaculture, he said, draws on farming methods and wisdom of centuries past -"returning to our roots, to the traditional methods used by our grandparents". She said the initiative, with funding from Switzerland and others, even covers Tunisia's sun-baked arid regions and aims to entice jobless young people to cultivate abandoned family land.
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