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Exciting News – Announcing SKI NPC

December 14, 2024, 0
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...

Exciting News from the Seed and Knowledge Initiative (SKI)!

December 12, 2024, 0
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...

Drought Resilience Stories

December 5, 2024, 0
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...

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...

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.

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.
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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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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

Exciting News from the Seed and Knowledge Initiative (SKI)!
December 12, 2024
Drought Resilience Stories
December 5, 2024
SKI 10 Year Celebration in Harare – 10th of September 2024
September 3, 2024