Services

Melanesian specialist

TerraCircle is a Melanesia specialist with a team of experienced development practitioners providing:

• training in rural livelihoods, improved small scale farming to organisations and communities
• project management services
• media services for community self-development.

Our focus is on food security and the associated area of community health.

TerraCircle provides consultancy services to:

• non-government aid and development organisations
• humanitarian and emergency response agencies
• multilateral and regional bodies
• government organisations
• field staff of agricultural extension services
• groups and individuals in communities.

TerraCircle provides…

Training

Making use of participatory techniques, TerraCircle provides training in:

• planning and improvement for community food security; training in food security assessment and small scale farming using the Low External Input Sustainable Agriculture methodology
• the development and operation of community-based seed banks and seed exchange services.

Project support services

• project feasibility studies, project planning and management including evaluation and documentation
• participatory assessment for sustainable food futures and livelihoods
• (see: Weather Coast assessments)
• village energy systems assessment
• production and design of media products such as training manuals.

Media services

• training publications for small scale agriculture, project cycle, seed production and exchange
• organisational communications – brochures, reports, project profiles, fact sheets, newsletters
• content for online media such as the Worldwide Web.