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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.

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.
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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.

Policy brief on community seedbanks in Malawi

June 29, 2022, 0
A policy brief on community seed banks in Malawi is available for download. This brief was prepared by Rachel Wynberg (UCT), Regine Andersen (Fridtjof Nansen Institute) and Viviana Meixner Vasquez (Fridtjof Nansen Institute). Another brief on farmers’ rights in Malawi will be completed in August/September. To access and download the PDF of this brief, please...
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Harare Good Food Festival 2021 Publication – “Eat More Plants”

May 9, 2022, 0
Coming out of the 2021 Harare Good Food Festival, this is the seventh booklet developed by the Zimbabwe Traditional and Organic Food Forum. 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 fantastic time. This booklet focuses...

Book Launch: Healthy Soil For Healthy Communities

February 14, 2022, 0
  AFSA & SKI are delighted to announce the publication of a new book on agroecological practices: Healthy Soil for Healthy Communities – An Introduction to Soil Health Practices for Africa There is a growing awareness across Africa that we need to improve the health of soils dramatically if we are to produce nutritious food...
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AE Landscape Toolkit for facilitators

September 1, 2021, 0
Principles, tools and processes are designed to ensure that this is a participatory action research (PAR) process.
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Bearing fruit – 2020 Harare Good Food Festival booklet

January 1, 2021, 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.

SKI mini-Barefoot Guide on AE landscapes – click through to download

December 7, 2020, 0
ANNOUNCING the SKI mini-Barefoot Guide on AE landscapes – The SKI mini-Barefoot Guide on agroecological landscapes titled ‘Whole Landscapes, Whole Communities – Working with Nature to Heal, Transform and Regenerate Landscapes’ is now available here for free downloading.

Biofertilisers come to Africa – 4 short training videos

September 2, 2020, , 0
Linked to the 4 booklets, there are also four short biofertiliser recipe videos that were produced. Each of these videos shares a topic with one of the booklets. For access to the booklets, please view the previous news post or follow this link. To view the biofertiliser recipe videos, follow the links below: Biofertilisers 1: Native...

Biofertilisers come to Africa – 4 “how to” Biofertiliser booklets

September 2, 2020, , 0
To follow on from the short video previously posted (more to come!), there have also been a series of 4 booklets developed that share simple methods on the development of biofertilisers using cheap and readily available materials. Please access the links below for PDF versions of the booklets. Biofertiliser 1 Native microbes Biofertiliser 2 Fermented...
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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

The role of seed fairs in celebrating and nurturing agrobiodiversity and resilient seed systems
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Participatory Mapping as a transformative evaluation process towards the co-construction of knowledge and action on seed and agroecology
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Reconnecting for resilience: a case study of farmers’ seed exchange networks in southern Africa
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