The 9th International Permaculture Conference & Convergence (IPC9

The 9th International Permaculture Conference and Convergence will be happening in Malawi from

 

the 2nd to the 6th of November 2009. In addition a post conference Permaculture site tour will take
place from the 7th to the 30th of November which will include visits to selected Permaculture projects
in Malawi, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Participants are free to register for the conference and
convergence only or for both the meetings and the site tour. Attendance for the Convergence is only
open to holders of the Permaculture Design Certificate but the conference day is open to the public
and will happen on Friday the 6th of November. Anyone can attend the conference as well as the
Permaculture site tours as long as they are fully registered and paid for their attendance.
Registration will only be considered complete when payment has been received in full for the
selected events.  

General Information
The venue for the IPC9 Africa Conference and Convergence will be Kumbali Lodge which is located
just outside Lilongwe, the capital city of Malawi. Malawi is in south central Africa on the southern
end of the Great East African Rift Valley. The main gateway into Malawi is Kamuzu International
Airport which is located just outside Lilongwe some 30 km from the venue for IPC9. There are just a
few direct flights between Lilongwe and London and so the main routes to get to Malawi are
through Johannesburg, South Africa or through Nairobi, Kenya. There are daily flights between
Johannesburg and Lilongwe and there are several flights a week between Nairobi and Lilongwe.
There are also flights that connect Lilongwe to Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, Lusaka in Zambia, Harare
in Zimbabwe and Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. The airlines that service Lilongwe are South African
Airways, Kenya Airways, Air Malawi, Ethiopian Airways and Air Zimbabwe. We are exploring the
possibility of organising a road caravan (bus) to take people from Johannesburg to Lilongwe and
back. This bus would travel through Zimbabwe and Mozambique on its way to and from Lilongwe.
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IPC9 AFRICA ANNOUNCEMENT/March 04