Himalayan Permaculture Centre (HPC) is a grass-roots NGO registered at national and district level. It has a focus on remote/poor/resource depleted farming communities in Surkhet & Humla districts of Western Nepal, and especially marginalised populations (women & low-caste), using low-tech appropriate technologies to increase domestic farm productivity through reducing costs of labour, money and other external resources while increasing farm diversity, resilience, health, education and livelihoods. The program uses models of design that can be replicated elsewhere and to do that locally trains farmer-trainers that can go to other communities to expand/roll out the working ethics, principles and techniques.

HPC works in ecologically challenging and remote environments at mid-high altitude, frequently on steep slopes where maintaining fertility is a constant challenge, and access to basic services of education, health and markets is marginal. Most of the population are subsistence farmers. As such it would like to see more resilience and abundance in food security, better health, especially through well-being and preventative measures (such as improved diet and hygiene), better quality and appropriate education, and meaningful livelihoods based on local resources and fair trade.