ABOUT US

The Mesoamerican Permaculture Institute (IMAP) is a non-profit organization based in Guatemala. It was founded in 2000 by a group of local people concerned by the serious environmental, social and cultural problems affecting the nation. They established an ecological education center to promote permaculture techniques, local biodiversity conservation, production of organic food, and a seed bank that strives to reconstruct the Mayan seed heritage.

MISSION

IMAP empowers communities and individuals to ensure food sovereignty, ecological sanitation, the use of native seeds and the conservation of local ecosystems.

VISION

MAP empowers communities and individuals to ensure food sovereignty, ecological sanitation, the use of native seeds and the conservation of local ecosystems.

We implement our mission and vision through community service, workshops, certified permaculture courses, tours, group trips, school trips and consultancies.