🇹🇭 GO Organics Peace International: A Permaculture-Driven Community Development Initiative
GO Organics Peace International (GOP-I) is a comprehensive community development organization headquartered in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Our mission is fundamentally about cultivating global peace and stability by empowering small-scale farmers and engineering resilient local food systems based on the core ethics of permaculture.
Our operational and research hub is The Conscious Living Center in Hangdong, which functions as a Restrosuburbia Permaculture Demonstration Site. This center is our living laboratory, actively showcasing how regenerative design and sustainable living can be successfully applied in a suburban environment, and acts as a participatory space for the wider community.
🌱 1. People Care: Building Stability from Within
We believe true peace begins when basic needs are met. We directly counter Direct and Structural Violence by prioritizing the well-being and social stability of farmer families and the local community. Our approach involves:
Delivering extensive, hands-on permaculture training and accessible, low-cost technologies (solar dryers, improved cold storage) to foster self-reliance for farmers.
Operating a hands-on community garden at The Conscious Living Center, providing a public space for all to learn and practice regenerative gardening techniques, ensuring accessible, practical knowledge for greater local food self-reliance.
Fostering strong, cooperative social networks that support knowledge-sharing and uplift the cultural dignity of farming.
💧 2. Earth Care: Regenerating Our Shared Environment
GOP-I designs and implements organic agricultural systems that actively regenerate the environment rather than deplete it. Our commitment to ecological health ensures the long-term viability of the communities we serve by:
Promoting biodiversity, water conservation, and soil health through regenerative practices, securing the natural resource base indefinitely.
Creating healthy, pollution-free local environments that support community health—a commitment exemplified at our Hangdong Demonstration Site.
🤝 3. Fair Share: Securing Economic Justice
We interrupt the vicious cycle of economic exploitation and poverty that fuels Structural Violence. Our Fair Share model creates direct, transparent economic structures that benefit the producers first:
We develop innovative supply chain technologies (like traceable QR codes) to guarantee market transparency and allow farmers to capture a greater share of the product value.
We focus on micro-financing and guaranteed market access to transform economic precarity into foundational security and a sustainable income.
GO Organics Peace International is committed to designing and implementing sustainable community systems that support ecological health, economic fairness, and human well-being in a mutually reinforcing manner.