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New Agronomy Course Launch – Regenerative Agriculture Begins with Healthy Soil
Over the past three to four decades, the shift toward conventional agriculture—heavily reliant on synthetic fertilizers—has created a dangerous knowledge gap across Africa. It’s time to rediscover what African farmers once knew: soil is alive, and when we regenerate it, we regenerate livelihoods, ecosystems, and food systems.
New on Moja Academy: Certified Field Advisor Series Launching Soon
Very soon Moja Academy will launch the Certified Field Advisor Series—a transformational training initiative tailored for Extension Officers, Agripreneurs, and Farmers in Malawi and across the region.
Farming Smarter, Not Harder: Why Africa’s Extension Systems Need a Digital Reset
Across Sub-Saharan Africa, agricultural extension systems are under strain. In Malawi, one extension officer may serve over 4,000 farmers and agripreneurs—eight times the maximum ratio recommended by the FAO. Most smallholders lack access to timely, relevant, and localized guidance on inputs, incubation, and climate-smart agronomic best practices.
Digitization and Food Security, Part 2
It has become evident to global researchers over the last decade that digital technologies are the key factor of a good-jobs strategy for African countries.
Digitization and Food Security, Part 1
Digitalization is one of the greatest transformative opportunities of our time. It can redress intergenerational systems of poverty, make incremental and impactful alterations in how humans interact with climate, accelerate human capacity development where it never existed before ... to mention just a few of the immediately perceived benefits of digitalization.
Moja’s Systemic Agricultural Strategy: Tightening the Digital Loop in the African Circular Economy
In many parts of the world, including Africa, stagnant economies, rising inequality, widespread youth unemployment, increasing food insecurity, and sluggish regional growth have renewed interest in and experimentation with iterations of industrial policy.
Youth Unemployment and Food Insecurity: What Moja Plans to Do
Small-holder farmers need to learn climate smart agricultural practices, and they need to be able to trade in wider circles, even as they take simultaneous steps to become more resilient to climate shocks.
Moja the Camel versus Moja the Unicorn
Moja’s pivot to the agriculture sector and direct-to-farmer Climate-Smart Agriculture training through Moja Academy may seem to the casual observer like a sudden and sharp deviation in strategy, but it’s rather the cumulative effect of a long process of trial and error of operating the Moja app in Africa.