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Year Round Growing Season

legumes, pigeon pea, tephrosia (fish bean), cassava

01 Regional Asset

Bananas and mangoes

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02 Problem

•80% of the population in Malawi consists of rural, predominantly subsistence farmers - Malawi NAPA

•Nearly 60% experience year round food insecurity - Malawi NAPA

•50 tons of soil per hectare per year is lost in Malawi

Kusamala Institute of Agriculture & Ecology Nature’s Gift Permacuture Center

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Working with nature towards

healthy lands and people.

03 Solution

The Kusamala Institute of Agriculture and Ecology is a local, non-governmental organization that promotes holistic land management and household-level permaculture and agroecology systems in Malawi through demonstration, education, outreach and advocacy.

04 It works

04 It works

Staff member’s house six months after project implementation.

Neighbor’s house, a typical example of swept yards in Malawi.

04 It works

Dowa District – Practicing Permaculture and Agroecology

Dowa District – Conventional Agriculture

04 It works

Chitedze Permaculture Network Hub – Never Ending Food – January 20, 2016

300 metres from Hub – Neighbor using Conventional Agriculture – January 20, 2016

04 It works


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All Malawian communities have the ability and knowledge to creatively pursue their own path towards achieving food security and diversity, economic stability, and productive healthy environments.

Vision

Dowa working on a storyboard


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Internal Mission: To create a Malawian-run organization that is committed to improving organizational effectiveness through internal career development and specialized training that builds leaders in communities, policy, and government.

External Mission: To demonstrate and research resilient, income generating permaculture, agroecology, and holistic systems and to extend these systems into local communities through education and outreach.

Mission


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• Improve lives through teaching holistic land management, permaculture and agroecology practices.

• Upscale practices that create healthy landscapes

• Build respectful and trustworthy internal structures with patience

• Honor resources by giving back more than we take

• Create a financially sustainable organization that is not reliant on external funding

• Collaborate and Support our internal teams and external partners

• Give a platform to people's experiences with holistic practices who otherwise would not have one

Our Values

06 Opportunities (Impact and Improve Lives)


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06 Strategy

COURSES:

Permaculture Design Course (PDC)Permaculture Awareness Gardening with PermacultureHolistic Livestock Land Management Specialty Courses (i.e. beekeeping, water management, agroforestry)

CONSULTANCIES:

Malawi MangoesMaternity Health ClinicsLove Support UniteUnited Methodist ChurchMsalura Project (UNDP)

Trainings, Consultancies, and Demonstrations

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Participatory Video and Mapping

Coordinator Vincent practice interview Khundi Mapping Workshop


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In 2015, Kusamala conducted a research study with the African Centre for Biodiversity on soil health, seed availability and access to fertilizers. The report Running to Stand Still: Small-Scale Farmers and the Green Revolution in Malawi found that smallholder farmers struggle with costs of seeds and use high amounts of fertilizers at the detriment of long-term soil health. Kusamala’s work directly addresses these problems and proposes solutions that work within the social, environmental, and economic context.

Research

Network and Partnerships - Global Savory Network - Goal is 100 locally owned, led, and managed self-sustaining Hubs around the world by 2025, doing this in their own social, cultural, political, and ecological contexts. Kusamala is currently 1 of 27 Hubs.

- Malawi Permaculture Network – Established in 2015 with Kusamala as the secretariat and leading the mission to create strong partnerships and coordinated activities that share knowledge and resources. - Dowa Civil Society Organization Network – Kusamala founded this network in 2014 with a vision to reduce redundancy and ensure increased access to delivery of quality services to people of Dowa District.

There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin


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08 Structure

Executive Director,

Kusamala Board of Directors and

Advisors

Grants and Projects

($33,900)

Communications and Marketing

Department

Operations Department

Demonstration Department

($815)Administration

and Accounting Department

Training and Consultancies Department

($24,700)

Intern and Volunteers

Department ($1,200)

Research and

Evaluation Department

Dollar amounts are from June 2015 through October 2015

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09 Equipping Our Region

Agroecology and

Permaculture

Holistic Management

Trainings and Consultancies

Holistic Demonstrations

Innovative Research

Innovative Policy


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10 Business Model

BUSINESS (Trainings, Consultancies, and Demonstrations)

GRANTS (Communities, Research, and

Policy)

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11 Road to Sustainability

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• Secure funding of at least $1.375 million with a commitment of 5 years. • Convert 650 hectares to holistic land livestock management in partnership with

Nature’s Gift Limited. • Through veg box sales, trainings and consultancies generate an income of $78,750

and train 550 individuals.• Continue training 1,650 rural farmers in climate smart agriculture and holistic

management in Rural Lilongwe, Dowa, and Mangochi Districts using participatory video and mapping methods.

• Secure consistent donor partnerships that believe in our vision, mission, and values. • Publish annual reports, monthly newsletters, weekly updates, bi-monthly blog posts,

and participate weekly on social media platforms.

2016 Goals

12 Investing in Impact

Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.

- Allan Savory

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Questions

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