• Develop local sustainable agricultural strategies for mitigating the food crisis and extreme poverty that utilize indigenous knowledge systems.
• Initiate and assist the process of establishing a vibrant, socially conscious, economically and environmentally sustainable culture.
• Address environmental challenges to safeguard our natural heritage
• Build institutional capacity.

Our mission is to train and engage youth in Cameroon, West and Central African countries and beyond in the design of sustainable agricultural initiatives based on Permaculture that projects African values and ethics of care of the land.

BWC through its Permaculture Programme is joining hands with other small scale farmers and grassroots organizations in demanding government and development NGOs to make real the basic human right to food through policies such as rejection of GMOs, Land grabs and land reform and promotion of youth sustainable livelihoods initiatives based on ecological agriculture. Better World Permaculture for now is limited to providing technical support to the Ministry of Agriculture, Providing Training to unemployed youth, Community Based Organizations (youth and women’s group leaders), urban organic gardeners, councils and introducing environmental education in schools and colleges.

• Environmental Science and Agric School Graduates as extension staff for NGOs and Youth/Women Associations (six months interns)
• School teachers (5 days training workshops)
• Adapted extension services to small scale farmers.

Urban and rural regeneration, erosion control, integrated rural farming systems, renewable energy sustainable agricultural production, rural income generation, rural women empowerment, neglected crops, underexploited crops, ecological agriculture, co-operative farming, farmland soil preservation, developing farmer's markets, Permaculture farmland trusts, zoning, watershed management, fuel and transportation costs, agricultural research and, farmer's rights

• Better World Permaculture attended the International Permaculture Convergence IPC9 with a mandate to create a SCOPE Regional Office
for West and Central Africa in Yaoundé, Cameroon and is in the process of setting up a Cameroon Linking Association.. • BWC publishes a monthly Newsletter called Better News that provides updates on the inspiring youth micro projects and sustainable agricultural initiatives in Africa.
• BWC is working in partnership with VSO to design a curriculum based on Permaculture for Community Education and Action Centers (CEACS), auxiliary structures of the Decentralization Process in Cameroon operating under Local Councils.

The platform of operation of Better World Permaculture is the Ndanifor Community Garden (a 5 acre Demonstration Plot and garden pavilion for culture and traditional theatre, art and handicraft), a Heritage Park that offers insights into how our past generations lived and helping the youth of today in exploring various traditions that our ancestors incorporated into the most cherished African concept of living sustainably on the land. The Spirit of Ndanifor serves for: Reconnecting the youth to the land and growing our own nutritious food, medicine and spices Researching and experimenting with appropriate technologies Building Community Nurseries for fruit and fuel plantations Fish ponds, Cane Rat breeding and Mushroom cultivation Tool manufacture and information technologies Traditional Restaurant for return to good eating habits

Community and Schools linking, Eco Tourism and Cultural exchanges. Professional Training for Partner Organizations, HIV AIDS mitigation, Livelihood Organic Gardening for Orphans and People with Disability. Up scaling professional training to offer accredited Permaculture Design Courses that include green technology and waste recycling, landscape management, eco building, formation of cooperatives and Micro Financing. Agricultural News and Information Services, Distance Education, Networking, Alliance Building and Support to Local and National Volunteering.

Better World Student’s Nature Club (BSNC) is the executive arm of BWC active in playing an effective role in BWC’s Policy of protecting Cameroon’s biodiversity, traditional knowledge, food production systems, culture and diversity, from the threats posed by genetic engineering and biopiracy and the land grabs Phenomenon in Cameroon.

BSNC aspires to contribute towards youth volunteerism and the building of a vibrant, mature, capacitated green revolution movement in Cameroon to:
1. protect Cameroon’s biodiversity, traditional knowledge, food production systems, culture and diversity from the threats and risks posed by genetic engineering and biopiracy.
2. work with a range of partners on the African continent and elsewhere towards social justice, equity and food sovereignty
3. empower the youth and women to make informed choices about how resources are to be used, managed and conserved by focusing principally on the promotion of Permaculture practice: a holistic approach to the assessment and regulation of GMOs and Land tenure based on the ecological agriculture BSNC’s work is based on Environmental Science and Agricultural School graduates who constitute a New Breed of Volunteers (Change-Makers) pioneering an African Perspective to the changing nature of the climate change debate and challenges on environmental degradation globally, and on the African continent.

• To increase the capacity of youth and women on the continent in order to contribute towards the protection of biodiversity, food sovereignty, sustainable agriculture; and youth employment.
• To contribute to the creation and implementation of comprehensive and stringent food policies, legislation and procedures on the African continent and in so doing, oppose commercialization of GM crops in Africa specifically, and the application of transgenic technologies, generally.
• To research on appropriate technologies, renewable energy systems and carry out market research for small scale farmers products.
• To provide adequate access to information youth/women associations and introduce environmental education to primary and secondary schools.

...is a growing network of grassroots groups of small food producers particularly of youth and women-farmer groups affiliated to BWC as their support NGO. Our working principles are based on The Earth Charter and Permaculture Practice. One of our major targets is towards a Young People's Convention on Food Sovereignty in Cameroon in 2011. BCW Outreach Programme to rural farming communities in North West and Far North Regions is out to promote activities of preserving and enabling rural farming communities to develop sustainably, protecting their environment while thriving socially on their cultural heritage and natural resources and developing economically. BWC Outreach uses Permaculture Training and Community Organizing to enable families and individuals to effectively work together to achieve and create a sustainable society which will guarantee freedom of choice for future generations.