Seed and Knowledge Initiative - SKI

08/10/2026

Design Course (PDC) 2026 is officially underway — what a powerful start!

Follow along as SCOPE Malawi-Schools Permaculture brings up a new generation of Earth Warriors in Malawi.

08/10/2026

🌾 INDIGENOUS SEEDS: CLIMATE RESILIENCE, NUTRITION AND HERITAGE

📺 Live on ZANIS TV today at 14:30

Indigenous seed diversity gives farmers options.

Different crops and varieties respond differently to rainfall, soils, pests, storage conditions and household food needs. This diversity can help farming communities manage changing conditions while maintaining access to familiar and nutritious foods.

Tune in to ZANIS TV today, Thursday, 8 October 2026, at 14:30 as Mr. Emmanual Mutamba of Green Living Movement (GLM) discusses why indigenous seed and food diversity remains relevant to what Zambia grows, eats, preserves and passes on.

The interview forms part of the build-up to the 2026 Zambia Traditional Seed and Food Festival.

📅 31 October 2026
📍 Mukuyu Arena, Show Grounds
🎟️ Free entry

08/10/2026

As the African Union Africa Summit in Ezulwini, , concludes after three days of discussions from 5–7 October 2026, one message from farmers remains clear: works, the climate crisis is real and seed diversity is one of Africa’s greatest assets for resilience.

A significant step forward has been achieved: the continental policy and for Farmer-Managed Seed Systems (FMSS) has received technical approval by Ministers of , with political approval expected in February 2027.

SKI was represented at the Summit by partners from Zambia Alliance for Agroecology and Biodiversity Mutinta Eva Nketani Community Technology Development Biodiversity Conservation Initiative (BCI)and other allies working to advance farmers’ rights, seed sovereignty and agroecology across Africa AFSA

30/09/2026

Malawi is one of several southern African countries facing worsening food insecurity as climate change, recurring extreme weather events and the rising cost of agricultural inputs place increasing pressure on smallholder farmers.

Read the details in the latest issue of the Mizizi Magazine: https://mizizimag.africa/read/




SAOSO SAFCEI Soils, Food and Healthy Communities Kusamala Institute of Agriculture and Ecology Kasisi Agricultural Training Centre PELUM Zambia PELUM Eswatini Pelum RS Pelum Kenya Namibian Organic Association Namibia Nature Foundation (NNF) Sustainability Institute PGS South Africa Action for Environmental Sustainability Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) Zambia Alliance for Agroecology and Biodiversity Community Technology Development Trust-zambia. Community action for sustainability Seed and Knowledge Initiative - SKI Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

19/09/2026

It has been a wonderful and emotional few days of co-creation, reflection and action here in Harare, first at our farmers' dialogue earlier this week, where we learnt how to use our creative voice more effectively in our advocacy and movement work, and then at The Good Seed and Food Festival where we've been celebrating Zimbabwe's seed and food heritage with other farmers from across the country.

It's also at the festival where we launched our new regional campaign to defend farmers’ rights, Free Our Seed – Secure Farmers Rights – Stop UPOV. I

You can add your voice in support of farmers in Zimbabwe who want to maintain their right to save, exchange, breed and use their own seed here: https://forms.gle/zdvd4ErwzQxTQJFZ7

19/09/2026

It has been a wonderful and emotional few days of cocreation, reflection and action here in Harare, first at our farmers' dialogue earlier this week, where we learnt how to use our creative voice more effectively in our advocacy and movement work, and then at The Good Seed and Food Festival, where we've been celebrating Zimbabwe's seed and food heritage with other farmers from across the country.



AFSA Brot für die Welt SwedBio Kasisi Agricultural Training Centre Community Technology Development Trust-zambia. Soils, Food and Healthy Communities Zambia Alliance for Agroecology and Biodiversity PORET TSURO

19/09/2026

Come and join us at The Good Seed and Food Festival today as we join farmers from across the country in celebrating Zimbabwe's seed and food heritage!

19/09/2026

On day two in Harare, SKI partners turned their attention to policy and advocacy. It was a powerful and emotional day as farmers from across Southern Africa shared their lived experiences and spoke openly about what happens at community level when decisions on seed, indigenous knowledge and Farmers’ Rights are made far from the fields where these realities are lived.
Listening to farmers speak from the bottom up approach brought a powerful reminder that seed is not only about laws and policies. It is about our identity, life culture, knowledge, food and the right of communities to determine what they grow and how they sustain their food systems.

Farmers shared their experiences of protecting and passing on indigenous knowledge while navigating policies that can affect their ability to save, use, exchange and sell farm-saved seed and other propagating materials.

These are not simply aspirations. Farmers’ Rights are recognised through the legally binding International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and human rights frameworks including the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP).

These rights include the right to save, use, exchange and sell farm-saved seed and the protection of indigenous knowledge linked to plant genetic resources. They also include the right of farmers and rural communities to participate in decisions on the conservation and use of these resources.
Agroecology Fund Brot für die Welt SwedBio Embassy of Switzerland to Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe AFSA

19/09/2026

18/09/2026

To follow our happenings at the Harare Good Seed and Food Festival, please follow our livestream below!

Join PELUM Zimbabwe for the Day 1 of the 2026 Good Seed and Food Fe...