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Find appropriate resources and tools to help scale organics and agroecology in Africa from posters to publications and podcasts. If you have resources you would like to share, get in touch. We can also help you load appropriate knowledge products to the Africa-wide Knowledge Centre for Organic Agriculture and Agroecology in Africa digital platform. Soils,…

Too often, important academic and scientific findings remain in journals or donor reports, distant from the practitioners and communities who could benefit most. We can help translate institutional knowledge into grounded, accessible narratives that connect evidence to lived realities. See our institutional partnership packages. Agroecology supports sustainable development in Africa Madsen, S., Bezner Kerr, R.,…

From 3-5 March, KHSA partners met in Lusaka for a Leadership Collective meeting, including a regional knowledge exchange around the development of Zambia’s National Agroecology Strategy. This knowledge exchange, in partnership with the Research for Agroecology Network for Southern Africa (RAENS) and Loctaguna Organic Farm, took the form of a KHSA Farm Food Jam (a…

By Sam Wesamoyo, AfriFOODLinks Ambassador Juma’s moment of inspiration that took him into urban farming in Mbale City, Uganda Like many young men on leaving school, Juma Wepukhulu set out in search of employment and was fortunate enough to secure a job as a manager at one of the guest houses in Mbale City. In…

In the villages surrounding Ekwendeni in northern Malawi, conversations about food often begin not with crops, but with children. Two decades ago, staff at the local hospital noticed a troubling pattern: children arriving with severe malnutrition were not simply lacking food. Their families were farming, often diligently, yet diets were narrow, soils exhausted and harvests…

By the Zimbabwe Forestry Commission Zimbabwe is losing forests at an estimated 262 000 hectares each and every year. Driven by energy demand, tobacco curing and expanding settlements, deforestation is undermining water security, biodiversity and climate resilience. What appears as short-term survival carries long-term ecological costs. Primary drivers of deforestation in the country are the energy-intensive…