FiveBecomings (Pañchabhūmi)^[1] projects are intended to serve a cluster of villages whose members face multiple severe challenges, including:

• no or very few local employment opportunities
• insufficient and/or nutrient-deficient food and minimal access to effective healthcare
• lack of sanitation, water, and safety and limited access to resources
• mistreatment and/or inequality of women and people marginalized based on nonconformity, class, and/or caste
• identity loss, disenfranchisement, and limited decision-making power

The design of a FiveBecomings commons is customized according to many factors, such as physical factors, like the shape and topography of the 20 to 50-acre land that is transformed to result in the multi-sector commons. The figure above illustrates a design that is for a parcel of contiguous land that is shaped like a square, and where the water source is located to the southwest of the site.

FiveBecomings projects aim to solve problems locally for the multi-village Community it serves, while simultaneously addressing global challenges, as shown in Table 1 below (note: see part 1 of this article ^[2] for the definitions of ecological web (ecoweb) and ecoself; see Box 1 below for a description of Ecoliving system and Ecosymbiosis).

Table 1. FiveBecomings projects: local problem-solving with local and global impact. 

In general, each FiveBecomings project is implemented in collaboration with the multi-village beneficiary Community by a Core Partnership. The Core Partnership comprises one or two nonprofit organizations having several decades of experience in one or more sectors of the activities undertaken on the FiveBecomings commons.^[4] The Core Partnership also comprises a regional Core Team of advisors who are experts in one or more areas, such as livelihood and food security, equitable governance and resources access, energy and waste, ecological wellbeing and health, and creativity and personal evolution.

An objective of the FiveBecomings project is for a range of communities to eventually replicate it in principle in many regions/ bioregions across the world, by customizing and adapting the design and implementation of each project to the particularities of each community and the ecoweb of which they are a part.

Another objective is to implement each FiveBecomings project in such a manner that — within 10 years — no external funding will be needed to run the project. In other words, the multi-village Community will be able to themselves sustainably generate sufficient commodities and resources from the FiveBecomings commons — and the individual villages of the Community due to KTP transfer from the FiveBecomings commons to the villages — for the Community to be self-reliant and supply the funds and labor needed to continue sustaining the FiveBecomings commons for their own benefit.

[1] K. Mitra, Reestablishing Integrated Self-Reliant Wellbeing for Communities: Implementing FiveBecomings, Ecosymbionts all Regenerate Together (EaRTh): DOI-EaRTh012025-001 (9 Jan., 2025) (https://ecosymbiont.org/earth/content/regenerative/human-ecoweb-integration/reestablishing-integrated-self-reliant-wellbeing-for-communities-implementing-fivebecomings).

[2] K. Mitra, Local-Global Benefits of Rural FiveBecomings Projects Designed for Community Self-Reliance (1 of 2), Ecosymbionts all Regenerate Together (EaRTh): DOI-EaRTh032025-022 (18 Mar., 2025) (https://ecosymbiont.org/earth/content/systems/ecoweb-rooted-framing/local-global-benefits-of-rural-fivebecomings-projects-designed-for-community-self-reliance-1-of-2).

[3] K. Mitra, LivingConfluence: Community Wellbeing-Rooted Economics, Law, Governance, and Education (ELGE), Ecosymbionts all Regenerate Together (EaRTh): DOI-EaRTh012025-002 (10 Jan., 2025) (https://ecosymbiont.org/earth/content/systems/extractivism-alternatives/livingconfluence-community-wellbeing-rooted-economics-law-governance-and-education-elge).

[4] K. Mitra, Reversing the Enclosure of the Commons through FiveBecomings, Ecosymbionts all Regenerate Together (EaRTh): DOI-EaRTh042025-042 (13 Apr., 2025) (https://ecosymbiont.org/earth/content/systems/extractivism-alternatives/reversing-the-enclosure-of-the-commons-through-fivebecomings).