Industrial agriculture may boost yields today, but it is quietly destroying soil health, polluting water and trapping farmers in costly dependency. Learn more.

The Seeds That Feed Us Are No Longer Ours to Keep Every planting season, farmers across Malawi and Zambia queue up for government-subsidised seed packets...

Southern Africa continues to face high food insecurity despite decades of agricultural investment. As climate change intensifies, agroecology and organic farming are emerging as practical...

For most African smallholder farmers, the challenge is not farming organically, but affording certification. Learn more.

PGS is a farmer-led, trust-based alternative to costly organic certification, helping smallholders access markets and strengthen local food systems.

Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) are a low-cost, farmer-led way to certify organic produce, built on trust, peer learning, and local markets.

What if the answer to fall armyworm is growing in your backyard? Across Southern Africa, farmers are using local plants to control pests.

Farmers in Southern Africa are using local plants to make safe, low-cost sprays that control crop pests without expensive chemicals.

Smallholder farmers in Southern Africa are using botanical sprays as a low-cost, safer way to control crop pests using locally available plants.

Local plants like Tephrosia, bitter leaf, chilli, and garlic offer farmers a low-cost, natural way to control pests, reducing reliance on chemicals and strengthening agroecology.