About
Granjalotes Co is a development initiative focused on creating structured rural territories that combine residential life, productive landscapes and shared infrastructure.
The company coordinates the early development phases of new projects, including land acquisition, master planning and infrastructure development, before governance transitions to the resident ownership structure.
The first implementation is currently being prepared in Paraguay.
Team & Collaboration
Granjalotes is currently forming its founding team and professional network for both the development company and the first territorial project.
We are in active discussions with designers, legal professionals, technical advisors and early investors interested in contributing to the project.
The core team will likely include professionals in landscape design, architecture, legal structuring and project development, supported by advisors in areas such as agroforestry, land systems and communication.
Early collaborators may participate through project contributions, advisory roles or equity participation in the development company.
If you feel you could contribute with this in any way feel free to reach out to us.
Joris Debats
Founder
His background combines long-term travel, hands-on agricultural work, and independent study across multiple disciplines.
After completing several permaculture trainings and working on farms and gardens in different countries, he observed a recurring pattern: ecological systems — land, water, soil and food production — are often technically solvable. The social and structural layers, however, frequently fail.
Projects collapse not because the soil is poor, but because incentives are misaligned, ownership is fragmented, or governance lacks clarity.
This realization led him to study beyond agriculture.
He explored fields such as ecology, economics, praxeology, and (evolutionary) psychology — seeking to understand how human behavior, incentives and institutional design interact with land.
Rather than focusing solely on how to grow food, the question became:
How should land be structured so that ecological systems and human systems reinforce rather than undermine each other?
While traveling through Latin America, Joris encountered loteamiento models that divide rural land into small, accessible plots. The concept was simple and powerful — but often incomplete.
GranjaLotes emerged from the idea that this structural simplicity could be redesigned.
Not as a commune.
Not as speculative real estate.
But as a structured territorial model combining:
private ownership
continuous productive land
shared infrastructure
and clearly defined governance
The project is not the invention of a new ideology.
It is an attempt to re-align ecology and human incentives within a coherent spatial structure.
