New volunteer, new project
Contributed by Oliver Ehler who joined Kusamala in 2016 as a volunteer from Germany under the Weltwaerts program. After learning all he could on permaculture, Oliver went straight to work in starting his own permaculture project. Here is what he has to say about his...
Capacity Building for Our Project Staff
In the past week Kusamala was active in training our new project staff in introductory permaculture principals. Participants in the 5 day training included staff from our Mwana Alirenji Organic Farming project in Ntcheu, staff from our Multisectoral Food and Nutrition...
Kusamala making impacts through Donor funded projects
Kusamala is now upscaling in other districts in Malawi with its aim of promoting permaculture and agroecology systems for sustainable food and nutrition security. This is on the premise that food and nutrition security shall be achieved through provision of expert...
Multiple harvests with permaculture
As the harvesting period is still underway in Malawi, Kusamala also has a success story to share. The general view of Malawian farmers is that maize can only be grown using synthetic fertilizers because it is a heavy feeder. These fertilizers contain a lot of...
Permaculture Design Course at Kusamala
Contributed by Annette Kasulo This year’s Permaculture Design Course (PDC) ran from September 12th to 24th. Held at Kusamala’s Nature’s Gift Permaculture Centre, the training attracted both local and international participants. It is always our pleasure to bring...
Msalura Consultancy wraps up
Kusamala Institute of Agriculture and Ecology has this April finished consulting with Msalura Primary School on a 6 months reforestation and permaculture project which started in November 2015 with funding from UNDP. The main goal of the project, which targeted school...
