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- 2. 2 Year Round GrowingSeason legumes, pigeon pea, tephrosia (fish bean), cassava 01 Regional Asset Bananas and mangoes
- 3. 3 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
- 4. Kusamala Institute ofAgriculture & Ecology Nature’s Gift Permacuture Center 4 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.
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- 7. Staff member’s housesix months after project implementation. Neighbor’s house, a typical example of swept yards in Malawi. 04 It works
- 8. Dowa District –Practicing Permaculture and Agroecology Dowa District – Conventional Agriculture 04 It works
- 9. 9 Chitedze Permaculture NetworkHub – Never Ending Food – January 20, 2016 300 metres from Hub – Neighbor using Conventional Agriculture – January 20, 2016 04 It works
- 10. Kusamala Institute ofAgriculture & Ecology Nature’s Gift Permacuture Center 10 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
- 11. Kusamala Institute ofAgriculture & Ecology Nature’s Gift Permacuture Center 11 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
- 12. Kusamala Institute ofAgriculture & Ecology Nature’s Gift Permacuture Center 12 • 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
- 13. Kusamala Institute ofAgriculture & Ecology Nature’s Gift Permacuture Center 13 06 Opportunities (Impact and Improve Lives)
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- 17. Kusamala Institute ofAgriculture & Ecology Nature’s Gift Permacuture Center 17 06 Strategy COURSES: Permaculture Design Course (PDC) Permaculture Awareness Gardening with Permaculture Holistic Livestock Land Management Specialty Courses (i.e. beekeeping, water management, agroforestry) CONSULTANCIES: Malawi Mangoes Maternity Health Clinics Love Support Unite United Methodist Church Msalura Project (UNDP) Trainings, Consultancies, and Demonstrations
- 18. 18 Participatory Video andMapping Coordinator Vincent practice interview Khundi Mapping Workshop
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- 20. Kusamala Institute ofAgriculture & Ecology Nature’s Gift Permacuture Center 20
- 21. Kusamala Institute ofAgriculture & Ecology Nature’s Gift Permacuture Center 21 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
- 22. 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.
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- 24. 24 There is almosta 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
- 25. Kusamala Institute ofAgriculture & Ecology Nature’s Gift Permacuture Center 25 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
- 26. 26 09 Equipping OurRegion Agroecology and Permaculture Holistic Management Trainings and Consultancies Holistic Demonstrations Innovative Research Innovative Policy
- 27. Kusamala Institute ofAgriculture & Ecology Nature’s Gift Permacuture Center 27 10 Business Model BUSINESS (Trainings, Consultancies, and Demonstrations) GRANTS (Communities, Research, and Policy) NETWORKS (Scaling up Impact)
- 28. 28 11 Road toSustainability $- $100,000 $200,000 $300,000 $400,000 $500,000 $600,000 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Trainings and Consultancies Demonstrations Grants Other
- 29. Kusamala Institute ofAgriculture & Ecology Nature’s Gift Permacuture Center 29 • 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
- 30. 30 Without agriculture itis 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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Editor's Notes
- #2 Business and non-profit. 32 staff, located in Lilongwe expanding in Dowa, Rural Lilongwe, and Monkey Bay. Kusamala has a staff of 32. 9 work in the field for us in Dowa District and Rural Lilongwe. It is a hybrid organization and runs as a business selling produce to restaurants, running a weekly vegetable box scheme, and offering trainings. Kusamala also receives grants to upscale approaches and interventions in permaculture and agroecology within communities. In Dowa we are working with 1500 farmers and in Rural Lilongwe 30.
- #3 People only focus on maize
- #6 How presentation will benefit audience: Adult learners are more interested in a subject if they know how or why it is important to them. Presenter’s level of expertise in the subject: Briefly state your credentials in this area, or explain why participants should listen to you.
- #7 How presentation will benefit audience: Adult learners are more interested in a subject if they know how or why it is important to them. Presenter’s level of expertise in the subject: Briefly state your credentials in this area, or explain why participants should listen to you.
- #8 Need outcomes. See Savory’s slides on percentages of carbon, forage production, water holding capacity in soils, profitability
- #9 Will change photos once we get more from Dowa and Mangochi Districts within the next few months.
- #14 Kiness’s Garden – Temwa’s Lead Farmer – Our idea is to expand off the work we are doing in Dowa and bring in holistic livestock land management – just doing permaculture isn’t enough.
- #19 Talk about the purpose and goal of these tools Talk about mapping workshops in Khundi Mapping areas of well-being
- #26 Dollar amounts are from June 2015 to October 2015 (5 months) using a 560MWK exchange rate.
- #32 Why it is important? Why should they listen?