Malawi – Imagine Afrika

Chimwemwe Limani founded Imagine Afrika (IA) in 2016, IA got its first funding from Roland Bunch in late 2020 to scale up Green Manure Cover Crops technologies in Nsanje, Chikwawa, Nsanje, Blantyre and Balaka districts. Our vision is to end hunger which is fueled by climate change and rising prices of inorganic fertilizer in Southern Malawi by 2040. Our goals: - Plant 200 000 hectares of gliricidia in farms of small holder farmers by 2030 in Southern Malawi. - Plant 20 000 km of acacia galpin fence around farms of small holder farmers by 2030 in Southern Malawi.

Green manure/cover crop (gm/ccs) increases soil fertility, rain water infiltration increases over time to as much as three times its previous level, the soil’s water-holding capacity increases and soil erosion is reduced. Further, gm/ccs have zero transportation costs as far as soil restoration is concerned unlike most other materials used to improve the soil, including synthetic fertilizer, compost and animal manure. Farmers sale surplus harvest from legumes which they grow as green manure cover crops including pigeon peas, lablab and peans. Green Manure Cover Crops drastically increase the number of macro-and microorganisms which help crops grow better, improve or ‘‘buffer’’ the PH of the soil and sequester atmospheric carbon.