The SKI Agroecology Landscape Collaborative is a multi-country collaboration that was born out of the efforts of the SKI Community of Practice. In 2019 a group of southern African organisations decided to prioritise the restoration of landscapes using agroecology principles.
This collaborative effort is building capability, solidarity and leadership within and without through pioneering a different, more holistic and deeper process. This process includes all aspects of the landscape – the local culture, the leadership, the river systems, forests, areas with wild biodiversity, the grasslands, the system of livestock management, the watershed and, very importantly, the governance systems that either damages or supports the ecosystems.
DeTAS, working in Northern Malawi with a focus on mentoring youth and community development and coordinating the restoration of the Kakomo landscape in the Misuku mountains;
KATC, a renown sustainable organic farming training and outreach centre based outside Lusaka, and coordinating the regeneration of water catchments in the Kapete area of Chongwe district;
ReSCOPE, working with schools and youth to introduce permaculture and food forests in rural communities throughout the region, and coordinating the piloting of integrated regenerative practices in the Chona landscape located in Monze district in Southern Zambia;
TSURO, supporting smallholder farmers in the Chimanimani mountains of Eastern Zimbabwe on seed, agriculture, holistic livestock management and water catchment regeneration (especially after the devastation caused by Cyclone Idai in 2019) and coordinating the implementation of the sustainable management of land and water resource sin the Saurombe landscape;
UKUVUNA, specialised in permaculture training across the region and coordinating an intervention that focuses on reforestation and water management in the middle Rusape River catchment in Makoni District in Zimbabwe;
ZIMSOFF, who is a national smallholder farmers’ organisation, with extensive movement building experience in Zimbwbe and is coordinating a pilot project focused on amplifying traditional knowledge in the protection of biodiversity within the Nyamandi landscape in Gutu district;
EARTHLORE foundation, working both in South Africa and Zimbabwe with a distinctive approach of first reviving culture and traditional knowledge systems through dialogues that resulted in communities in Bikita (Zimbabwe) and Steenbok (South Africa) taking action to restore their sacred sites and river systems.