Abalimi Bezekhaya

Abalimi Bezekhaya (meaning farmers of the home in isiXhosa) was established in 1982 a non-profit urban-farming organisation that aims to support individuals and groups from disadvantaged communities in Cape Town through providing facilitation and training of organic food production for nutrition, health, food security and income generation, as well as providing market access. 

Our Vision is to support individuals and groups from disadvantaged communities in Cape Town through providing facilitation and training of organic food production for nutrition, health, food security and income generation, as well as providing market access.

Our Mission is to empower the disadvantaged through organic urban agriculture programs and projects. We support our target group’s ability to replicate their success and transform their lives in their urban and rural environments.

Five pillars of development  Abalimi provides the following support services, which are the four pillars of development:

1) Training and mentoring, as well as professional extension services (e.g. organisation building, research, soil testing, monitoring and evaluation, management and accounting services).

2) Supply of agricultural inputs for production through the garden centres in Nyanga and Khayelithsa (e.g. manure, seeds and seedlings).

3) Soil and infrastructure capital input, which the farmers cannot build up on their own.  This includes the major part of their manure to improve soil infrastructure within the harsh dune sand environment and extreme weather conditions and irrigation infrastructure. 

4) Market access support to promote the sale of organic vegetables grown by out farmers. 

5) Organisational and social development amoungst farmers to encouragae a stronger movement amoungst micro-farmers in the townships.

For more information, visit our website www.abalimi.org.za

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