Implementing permaculture on a large scale can pose challenges such as scalability, land availability, policy and regulatory constraints, and initial investment costs. Additionally, educating and raising awareness among farmers, landowners, and policymakers about the benefits and methods of permaculture can also be a challenge.

The impact of living in a permaculture community depend on the individual. One of the biggest challenges in becoming self-sufficient is creating and maintaining wealth. Permaculture is not about money. The idea is to create systems so that humans don’t have to rely on corporations or governments. By creating self-sufficient, self-maintaining, diverse, and regenerative ecosystems, permaculture does away with the reliance of conventional food production systems on large amounts of water, chemical inputs, hybrid seeds, and intensive labour. As such, it can be hugely beneficial for India's small farmers. In permaculture, we strive for a lifestyle that is harmonious with nature. This includes eating natural foods, using green materials, recycling or composting waste, and using water wisely by conserving it when possible. Permaculture is not only about food production, but also about being able to sustain your life through many different means – environmental preservation, social justice, self-sufficiency, etc. Moving to permaculture has been known to be challenging for many people because they are used to their habits and beliefs about how life should be lived.

Limited land, rapid increase in population, Urbanization

Permaculture can be understood as the growth of agricultural ecosystems in a self-sufficient and sustainable way. This form of agriculture draws inspiration from nature to develop synergetic farming systems based on crop diversity, resilience, natural productivity, and sustainability. Permaculture drives ecosystems toward closed loop cycles of matter, whereby biodiversity and agro biodiversity eventually lead to the system' resilience. Permacultures are labor and time requirements, low short-term yield, skill and knowledge requirements, product cost and shelf-life, and practical adherence challenges. Design thinking does not appear as a topic in many course curricula. This is a weakness in permaculture education and, subsequently, in permaculture practice. Design thinking can also be missing in decision making in permaculture organizations. It combines agricultural and forestry technologies to create more diverse, productive, profitable, healthy and sustainable land-use systems. Trees or shrubs are intentionally used within agricultural systems, or non-timber forest products are cultured in forest settings. Creating a 'Food Forest' In today's context, permaculture can play a crucial role in rehabilitating natural ecosystems impoverished by deforestation, overgrazing, extractive agricultural practices, and climate change. I would say the best climate for self sufficiency using permaculture would be a tropical one. The strength of the sun in these climates means layering edible crops in forest canopies is extremely effective.Around 40 per cent of all food produced is wasted in India. An intensive permaculture garden produces up to 35 times the amount of food per square metre when compared to a conventional farm, with less than 20 per cent of the resources used. Thus, permaculture may help in making every bio-region abundant. There is no real difference between permaculture, integrated farming or sustainable agriculture. Permaculture is all of these and much more. It is a comprehensive ecosystem design that works by mimicking nature.