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Agroecology

A new direction towards truly sustainable food systems

IFFR-Live Comes to Harare

Festival celebrates film

Victimised by a click

#16Days16Voices Day 2: Linda Masarira's online harrassment

Hivos Southern Africa Activates Citizens on Green and Inclusive Energy

Citizens keen to embrace renewables

Hivos and Welthungerhilfe Launch Cooperation in Food and Lifestyle Fund

Fund aimed at stimulating entrepreneurship and investment in the food and lifestyle sector

Food Entrepreneurs in Southern Africa Undergo Ideation Boot Camp

Boot camp aimed at inspiring entrepreneurs to scale up their ideas

Photo: Hivos, Caroline Wildeman speaking @ launch

Women@Work launched in Southern Africa

to improve rights of women in horticulture value chains.

Goodbye maize mono diet!

Zambia must diversify its food production and consumption patterns to overcome nagging challenges of hunger and malnutrition and ensure good health for all its citizens.

2016 Annual Report

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Facts & Figures

Southern Africa

Total liability € 9,4 million

Number of countries 3

Number of partner organisations 38

News

Southern Africa

Getting Social Media to Work for CSOs

March 14, 2018

Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) need to undergo fundamental shifts in their organizational communications culture to benefit fully from social media technologies, according to a guidebook recently published by Hivos Southern Africa with support from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the...

Seeds Are the Soul of Agriculture

March 1, 2018

Hivos in collaboration with Welthungerhilfe, Hivos Impact Investments and SEED are holding a three day bootcamp to get more social entrepreneurs involved in delivering high quality open source seed products to small holder farmers. The three day Disrupt!SEEDS! event from 28 February to 2 March...

Hivos brings International Film Festival Rotterdam to Harare - live!

January 22, 2018

On 26 January, Zimbabwe - through Hivos Southern Africa - will become the first Sub-Saharan African country to live stream films from the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). IFFR 2018, the 47th edition of the film festival, takes place from 24 January to 4 February 2018 in Rotterdam,...

Blog posts

Agroecology: a new direction towards truly sustainable food systems

Blog post | Nout van der Vaart | April 11, 2018 |

Categories:

Sustainable Food

The current dominant agricultural model has run out of steam. It’s high time to replace it with one that is not only sustainable, but also efficient, inclusive and respectful of the planet and the...

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Blog post | | March 22, 2018 |

Zimbabwe launches the 50/50 Advocacy Campaign

Blog post | Naledi Katsande | March 21, 2018 |