Ko te kupu permaculture i whakawhanakehia e David Holmgren, he akonga paetahi i te Tasmanian College of Advanced Education's Department of Environmental Design, me Bill Mollison, kaiwhakaako matua i roto i te Taiao Taiao i te Whare Wānanga o Tasmania, i te 1978. Ko te kupu permaculture i tohua ki te "whenua pumau", engari i whakawhānuihia hei tu mo te "ahurea pumau", i te mea i maarama ko nga waahanga hapori he waahanga nui ki te punaha pumau pono i whakaaweahia e te whakaaro ahuwhenua maori a Masanobu Fukuoka. Pātai: He aha te peraculture i tohua i te timatanga?
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