Marange

Our activities mainly stretch from agricultural support to landscape restoration and supporting small local businesses from backyard agroecology. For a year now, we have been sharing an offline locally built mobile application that helps farmers set up low - cost agroecology initiatives including bee - keeping as an incentive to protecting the vegetation that supports bees and for over three years encouraging indoor mushroom agroecology ( grey oyster ) raised from sustainable harvests of cotton husks and using natural support systems like sustainably harvested tree bark to emphasize on conservation. To date the application has been shared with over 200 users via Shareit - which is a preferable option for offline rural users than Google Play which we hope to host it this year, been exhibited at TEXPO 2023 Zimbabwe and continues to assist in offline tutorials.

Our "place'' is a low rainfall area which has been highly susceptible to droughts in the last decade affecting cotton, tobacco and maize harvests. We intervened as Rima Africa Trust Zimbabwe hoping help better food, income and family nutrition systems. The landscape then falls victim to compensatory artisanal mining activities which tries to bridge the gap left by failing food and income systems.

To build an asset based sustainable ecosystem that supports the livelihood needs and protects the natural ecosystem from excessive exploitation.