We are Happy to announce that The Seed and Knowledge Initiative (SKI) is now officially registered as a Non-Profit Company (NPC) in South Africa! This significant milestone is because of the collective effort and commitment of all our partners over the years. This NPC is not just a legal entity, it belongs to all of...
We are Happy to announce that The Seed and Knowledge Initiative (SKI) is now officially registered as a Non-Profit Company (NPC) in South Africa! This significant milestone is because of the collective effort and commitment of all our partners over the years. This NPC is not just a legal entity, it belongs to all of...
We are Happy to announce that The Seed and Knowledge Initiative (SKI) is now officially registered as a Non-Profit Company (NPC) in South Africa! This significant milestone is because of the collective effort and commitment of all our partners over the years. This NPC is not just a legal entity, it belongs to all of...
The 2023/2024 El Nino-induced drought wreaked havoc across southern Africa, particularly in Zambia and Zimbabwe, leading to severe crop failures and escalating food insecurity in the region. In April 2024, the Seed and Knowledge Initiative held an informal dialogue with its 15 partners to share information on the impact of the drought on the farmers...
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....
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...
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.
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 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 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...
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.
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 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.
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