In Zhanje Village in Dema on the outskirts of Harare, the future of farming is being reimagined in small spaces, not vast commercial fields, but homesteads, backyards and shared community plots. For many of the young farmers in the Seeds of Change project, agriculture once felt distant. Limited access to land and water meant traditional…
Farmers in Goromonzi, a rural district located 50 kilometres east of Harare, are turning back to indigenous seeds and traditional foods as a way to tackle climate change and improve food security. The sixth edition of the Traditional Seed and Food Festival, organised by Fambidzanai Permaculture Centre (FPC) in partnership with Participatory Ecological Land Use…
With climate change accelerating food crises across southern Africa, Zimbabwe’s Food Justice Network (FJN) is betting on women and agroecology to reverse the trend. Through its Feminist Agroecology Model Schools (FAMS), the organization has so far trained 25 women to farm sustainably, strengthening climate adaptation strategies while promoting gender equity in rural economies. Agroecology can…
