November PDC: Sharing Experiences From Different Parts Of The World
Kusamala held a Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course in November this year. The course had participants from 5 different countries: Malawi, Germany, Italy, Kenya and Uganda. Three people were randomly selected from the group of participants to share their...
Energy Forest for Malawi: A story of Abina Village
Contributed by Beauty Mawindo Abina village is located to the North West of Mangochi under Group Village Head (GVH), Abina, in TA Chilipa about 56km from Mangochi District. With a total of about 156 participating households, they form part of the overall community...
Permaculture as a solution to the small land holding capacity challenge
I was motivated with one testimony given during the training workshop as one explained how land is a problem in our country. Giving an example of our fore fathers who used to have a very large area to cultivate and the land was then normally shared among male...
Multisectoral Food and Nutrition Security for Young Smallholder Farmers in Malawi Project bearing fruits in Mangochi
Contributed by Tiwonge Nkosi and Charles Chinangwa 39 year old Emmanuel Luna is one of the 900 farmers benefiting from the Multisectoral Food and Nutrition Security for Young Smallholder farmers in Malawi Project which promotes permaculture and agroecology practices....
The National Seed Policy- A Threat to the Smallholder Farmer?
In September of 2016, Kusamala in collaboration with the African Centre fo Biodiverity (ACB) released a field report titled: Farmer-managed seed systems in Dowa, Malawi: A legacy of eroded confidence and agricultural diversity after decades of Green Revolution...
Inspired from diversity, Herrsching works!
Contributed by Chisomo Kamchacha and Tiwonge Nkosi After every two years, the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture hosts the International Leadership Workshop for Rural Youth, an event which has been held at the house of Bavarian Agriculture in Herrsching,...