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Uganda Rural Development and Training Programme Campus
Kagadi Town Council, Kagadi District, Western Region, Uganda
Victoria Basin & Albertine Rift Forests, Victoria Basin Forest-Savanna (AT12)
URDT Campus is the headquarters of the Uganda Rural Development and Training Programme (URDT), the African Rural University (ARU), and KKCR 91.7 FM community radio, situated on the central plateau of western Uganda in the heart of the Bunyoro Region. URDT, founded in 1987, is an indigenous Ugandan organization that merges functional technical education, consciousness-raising, and rural development through the visionary approach and systems thinking, shifting people from a problem-solving mindset to a self-creating orientation. ARU, established in 2006 as Uganda’s first all-women university, trains Rural Transformation Specialists through a 60/40 curriculum blending theoretical learning with hands-on community practice, deploying graduates as Epicenter Managers across 21 districts. KKCR 91.7 FM, the first truly community radio station in Uganda, broadcasts 18 hours daily in seven local languages and English, dedicating 90% of airtime to educational programming and reaching an estimated one million listeners across 10 districts. The campus integrates demonstration farms practicing sustainable agriculture, composting, companion planting, and indigenous seed conservation within a landscape of modified equatorial vegetation and wooded savannah mosaic, where the Muzizi River watershed connects the plateau to Lake Albert and the Albertine Rift. The campus offers beautiful and confortable accommodation that integrates modern with traditional architecture.
Mnyumbuni
Kilifi, Kilifi County, Kenya
East African Coastal Forests, Northern Zanzibar-Inhambane Coastal Forest Mosaic (AT7)
Mnyumbuni is a three-acre bioregional hub and living laboratory in the Takaungu Creek watershed of coastal Kilifi, Kenya. It serves as the headquarters of Grassroots Economics Foundation and operates as a community gathering place, demonstration farm, and coordination centre where regeneration is practiced, measured, discussed, and improved over time. When the team moved onto the land in 2023, virtually nothing was growing due to degraded, nutrient-poor soils. Since then, a half-acre has been intensively developed with syntropic agroforestry beds, hugelkultur trenches dug two feet deep and filled with biomass and compost, and half-moon water-harvesting earthworks designed to slow runoff, sink rainfall, and prevent erosion across the sloped terrain. The agroforestry system now includes cacao, coconuts, citrus, bananas, papayas, guavas, and seasonal vegetables, with a native species nursery supplying planting material to community groups. The site integrates community economic coordination through the Sarafu Network, rooted in the Giriama tradition of Mwerya (rotational mutual labour). Three community groups — predominantly women, with one rare all-male group — visit weekly for shared labour days, learning techniques at Mnyumbuni and implementing them on their own homesteads. Steward Emmanuel Kahindi, born in neighbouring Kiriba Village, leads hands-on training and coordinates group activities. Mnyumbuni makes land stewardship measurable, shareable, and financeable without turning land or people into commodities.
Hotel Cocodrilo Sierpe
Sierpe, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica
Brunca
Family run bed and breakfast near the Sierpe River, offering basic accommodations with A/C, outdoor pool, & free parking, serving as a gateway National Park Corcovado to the Térraba-Sierpe Wetland and nearby Archaeological Site.
AVER / Valle Escondido
Monteverde, Costa Rica
Bell Bird Corridor
AVER is a regenerative land node in Monteverde dedicated to promoting sustainability, ecosystem restoration and community resilience. Since 2016 it has introduced land stewardship techniques to over 53,000 visitors by January 2024, inspiring global awareness of natural resource management and regenerative design. The project engages local and international communities through education, workshops and internships, offering free education to locals, discounted programs for students and scholarships for underprivileged individuals pursuing sustainable design and regenerative agriculture.
Charity Family Household Epicenter
Kagadi, Kagadi District, Western Region, Uganda
Victoria Basin & Albertine Rift Forests, Victoria Basin Forest-Savanna (AT12)
The Charity Family Household Epicenter is a 4-acre smallholder homestead in Rugarama Village, located in the northern part of Kagadi District within Uganda’s mid-western Bunyoro region. The family’s transformation began in 2022 when Charity, then a Primary Five student, joined the URDT Girls School and participated in a one-week orientation workshop introducing the two-generation approach and the Visionary Approach. Through this process, Charity and her family drew a five-year vision that included building a permanent house with full sanitary facilities, establishing income-generating projects in coffee, cocoa, bananas, and poultry, and acquiring a motorcycle. Since then, the family has moved from a semi-permanent dwelling with no kitchen, drying rack, or sanitary facilities into a permanent house they now inhabit. Two acres are dedicated to improved banana plantation managed through agronomic practices learned via the school, including mulching, weeding, and pruning. The remaining acreage supports beans, groundnuts, oranges, coffee, cocoa, rabbits, poultry, and goats. The family collects non-biodegradable waste including plastic bottles for recycling into trash bins, demonstrating environmental stewardship alongside agricultural development.
The Pines Calyx
St Margaret’s Bay, Dover, United Kingdom
English Lowlands Beech Forests
The Pines Calyx is a carbon-negative venue within six acres of organic gardens in Kent. Built with cradle-to-cradle design and passive-house principles, it functions as a regenerative hub where community, ecology, and design converge. Surrounded by edible gardens, water features, and walking paths, it offers a place to gather, learn, and reconnect with nature.
Sol Academy
Santa Cruz Canton, Distrito 27 de Abril, Guanacaste Province, Republic of Costa Rica
Chorotega, Costa Rica
A bioregional learning ecosystem rooted in project-based holistic education, ecological restoration, and cultural resilience. The node regenerates a former grazing landscape through integrated pedagogy, soil restoration, and bioclimatic design, forming a replicable model for land-based education and adaptation.
Paka Family Farm - Neema Group
Kilifi, Kilifi County, Coast Region, Kenya
East African Coastal Forests, Northern Zanzibar-Inhambane Coastal Forest Mosaic (AT7)
The Paka Family Farm is a one-and-a-half-acre family homestead in Kiriba Village within the Takaungu Creek watershed of coastal Kilifi County, Kenya. It serves as the host site for the Neema group, a Mwerya rotational labour circle coordinated through Grassroots Economics Foundation. The group practices household mutual aid — visiting members’ homes in rotation to help with digging, planting trees, cultivating maize and fruit crops, and making makuti (coconut palm leaf thatch) for roofing. Three households share the property, which produces mangoes as the primary cash crop alongside bananas and other fruit trees. The family also keeps goats and chickens, selling animals to supplement farm income. Rainwater harvesting supports household water needs. Asya Ahmed, the current Mwerya host and a newer member of the group, describes her wish as wanting to learn more about Mwerya practices and to see the farm grow into good condition so that the trees and crops help the families earn income. The Neema group is one of several community circles in Kiriba connected to the Mnyumbuni demonstration farm and learning hub, where members gain skills in regenerative farming and economic coordination through the Sarafu Network commitment pooling platform.
Bosco Family Household Epicenter
Kagadi, Kagadi District, Western Region, Uganda
Victoria Basin & Albertine Rift Forests, Victoria Basin Forest-Savanna (AT12)
The Bosco Family Household Epicenter is a 15-acre smallholder homestead in Katatahwa Village, located in Saare Sub-County of Kagadi District in Uganda’s mid-western Bunyoro region. The family of Mr. John Bosco Asiimwe and Mrs. Asiimwe Grace cultivates sugarcane as their primary cash crop, alongside coffee on five acres, cocoa, avocados, bananas, yams, peppers, and maize across a mixed agroforestry landscape. Three functioning fish ponds provide protein and supplemental income, while a small-scale sugarcane distillery produces waragi, a traditional local spirit, adding value to the harvest on-site. Since 2023 the family has worked closely with URDT Epicenter Manager Oliver, an African Rural University graduate, who facilitates visionary planning, financial accountability, and ecosystem-friendly tree planting across the homestead and surrounding community. The property sits on undulating terrain within the Victoria Basin forest-savanna mosaic at roughly 1,200 metres elevation, surrounded by red clay loam soils fed by bi-modal rains averaging 1,000 to 1,500 mm per year, in a landscape drained by the Muzizi and Nkusi river systems flowing westward into Lake Albert.
Prisca Family Household Epicenter
Kagadi, Kagadi District, Western Region, Uganda
Victoria Basin & Albertine Rift Forests, Victoria Basin Forest-Savanna (AT12)
The Prisca Family Household Epicenter is a 4-acre smallholder homestead in the Rugarama area of northern Kagadi District, within Uganda’s mid-western Bunyoro region. The family’s transformation began in 2023 when Prisca, the last born of eight siblings, joined the URDT Girls School in Senior One and attended the one-week orientation workshop with her mother, learning the two-generation approach and the Visionary Approach. Together they drew a five-year family vision to have a permanent house in good condition and establish income-generating projects including cocoa, coffee, bananas, and piggery. Before joining, the family lived in a small house and had a banana plantation in poor condition with no income-generating projects. Now in year four of their vision, the family has renovated and extended their house, improved their banana plantation through mulching, weeding, and pruning, planted coffee seedlings provided by the school, established cocoa, and built a piggery of eight pigs that provide manure for the bananas and cash income for school requirements. The homestead sits on undulating terrain within the Victoria Basin forest-savanna mosaic at roughly 1,100 to 1,200 metres elevation, surrounded by ferrallitic soils fed by bi-modal rains averaging 1,000 to 1,500 mm per year, in a landscape drained by the Muzizi and Nkusi river systems flowing westward into Lake Albert. School Community Development Officer Livia monitors the family’s progress twice yearly as part of the URDT Girls School programme.
La Mucuy
Mérida State, Venezuela
Andes Tropicales, Mérida – Venezuela
Casa La Lumbre is the community-built headquarters of Fundación Senderos, combining traditional earthen construction with regenerative bioeconomy practices. It integrates biochar production, regenerative animal husbandry, community training, and rural tourism into a resilient hub for sustainable livelihoods.
Bioregional Learning Centre
South Devon, Devon County, United Kingdom
South Devon, United Kingdom
The Bioregional Learning Centre is a pioneering hub in South Devon dedicated to strengthening climate resilience through bioregional thinking, sustainable economics, and community collaboration. It acts as a catalyst for innovation, connecting ecology, economy, and culture to support long-term adaptation.
Community and connection are vital to the regenerative movement
We value people and organizations that are committed to regenerating their lands and waters through relationships built on intimate connections, reciprocity, and deep understanding.
Taking Regenerative actions in isolation can feel hopeless.
When we share regenerative actions from around the globe, we facilitate leaning, enable the sharing of resources, and collaboratively create a thriving global community together.
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