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SKI 10 Year Celebration in Harare – 10th of September 2024

September 3, 2024, 0
The Seed and Knowledge Initiative (SKI) is a dynamic partnership of diverse southern African organisations committed to securing food sovereignty in the region.On 10 September we will host an event in Harare, Zimbabwe,to celebrate 10 years of existence, bringing together SKI partners and practitioners with a wider public audience, including farmers, policy-makers, funders, media,and academics....

Healthy Soil Healthy Food – Nurturing Nature: Agroecological Practices and Strategies for Enhancing Soil Health, Seed Vitality and Resilience

May 17, 2024, 0
This new book from the Healthy Soil Healthy Food (HSHF) Initiative, which is jointly implemented by SKI and AFSA, is based on an 8-part webinar series held between October 2023 and February 2024 that covered a range of agroecological methods to foster healthy soils and ecosystems. This series served as a platform for knowledge sharing...

BOOK LAUNCH – ‘African Perspectives on Agroecology: Why farmer-led seed and knowledge systems matter’

March 4, 20240
Available free of charge as an e-book or downloadable PDF. Edited by scholar-activist Rachel Wynberg, from SKI Partner UCT (University of Cape Town, DST/NRF Research Chair on Social and Environmental Dimensions of the Bio-Economy), the book includes the voices of 33 farmers, activists, scientists, scholars and policymakers, many of whom are associated with SKI.

Harare Good Food Festival 2023 Publication – “ Deep roots – Traditional root and tuber crops in Zimbabwe”

February 1, 2024, 0
Each year the Zimbabwe Food Forum organises the Good Food Festival where people come together to enjoy traditional foods, buy seeds, meet producers and processors and have a great time.

SKI side-event at the FAO Plant Treaty GB10 meeting

November 23, 20230
SKI Farmers Rights Campaign – On 23 November 2023, SKI hosted a side-event during the week of the International Treaty for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) GB 10 meeting at the FAO headquarters in Rome. The side-event was titled ‘A decade of working towards realising Farmers’ Rights in southern Africa’, with presentations...

SKI statement at the FAO Plant Treaty GB10

November 21, 20230
SKI Farmers Rights Campaign - From 20 to 24 November 2023, for the very first time, a SKI delegation participated in the 10th Governing Body meeting of the International Treaty for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) at the FAO headquarters in Rome. On 21 November, SKI made an input during the plenary...

Whole landscapes, whole communities – Working with Nature to heal landscapes in Southern Africa

July 10, 2023, 0
This 6-min animation video explains in an African story-telling style the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ of the SKI Agroecology Landscape approach. It gives an introduction to the Agroecology Landscape work that SKI has been pioneering in seven pilot sites in Southern Africa since 2021.

Harare Good Food Festival 2022 Publication – “ Reap what you sow – Saving seed to sustain local food systems”

March 1, 2023, 0
Each year the Food Forum organises the Good Food Festival where people come together to enjoy traditional foods, buy seeds, meet producers and processors and have a great time.

The Biofertilizer Story

February 28, 2023, 0
This paper tells the successful story of SKI with introducing the Biofertiliser technology to smallholder farmers in Southern Africa.

Participatory Mapping for Agroecology Transformation

January 31, 2023, 0
This SKI Guide presents “how to” tools that SKI partners have used since 2015 to promote farmer-centred community- based mapping for assessment, learning and monitoring purposes.

Participatory Action Research with the Seed and Knowledge Initiative: Gleanings from the field

December 14, 20220
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Community Seed and Food Fairs in Malawi

October 1, 2022, 0
Introduced by civil society organisations, seed and food fairs are a regular feature on the calendars of farmers working with the Biodiversity Conservation Initiative (BCI) in northern Malawi.
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Seed and Knowledge Initiative

The Seed and Knowledge Initiative (SKI) is a dynamic partnership of diverse southern African organisations committed to securing food sovereignty in the region.

We work with smallholder farmers to become more seed, food and nutritionally secure through farmer-led seed systems, improved crop diversity, and the revival of local knowledge systems. While we have relationships with a number of organisations and individuals all over the world, our primary stakeholders are the farmers we work with in Malawi, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Recent Articles

Healthy Soil Healthy Food – Nurturing Nature: Agroecological Practices and Strategies for Enhancing Soil Health, Seed Vitality and Resilience
May 17, 2024
BOOK LAUNCH – ‘African Perspectives on Agroecology: Why farmer-led seed and knowledge systems matter’
March 4, 2024
Harare Good Food Festival 2023 Publication – “ Deep roots – Traditional root and tuber crops in Zimbabwe”
February 1, 2024