How Umgibe Farming Organics Seeks To Provide A Platform For Grassroots Farmers
How Umgibe Farming Organics Seeks To Provide A Platform For Grassroots Farmers. Umgibe Farming Organics is a carbon-saving, ecological, organic, income-generating vegetable-growing system which provides a platform to market vegetables grown by grassroots farmers in South Africa. The company is a 100% black-owned Level 1 B-BBEE. It believes in delivering products that are organically grown, provide balanced nutrition and does not harm the environment and are reasonably priced for affordability.
The company’s commitment to the growth of the African economy means that it promotes, sources and supplies locally and continentally grown products that equally match or exceed international standards. This promotes further market linkages, market access and sales for the 51 Cooperatives in its Network.
The company’s vision to be a premier business committed to providing and promoting leadership in sustainable agriculture, and advanced crop. It seeks to be the emerging African farmers of choice, producing good quality agricultural products effectively for the growing demand, with its own set markets.
Umgibe is a story of Ma’ Joye who was diagnosed with cancer in 2014 as a result she could not work to provide food for her family. She decided to grow organic vegetables in her backyard. Unfortunately, the chickens ate all her vegetables, needless to say she was devastated, but as a woman she had to come up with a solution.She innovated a growing system that enabled her to grow vegetables using diversified plastic bags from going to the landfills as growing bags.
Armed with this solution Umgibe provided the much-needed protection from the chickens but it did not end there it saved water and fed the family as well as neighbors who started buying the surplus produce. Before long Ma Joye was teaching other community members to grow nutritious vegetables. The story that began with pain has now paved the way for the hundreds of families. A platform was born where poor communities started growing vegetables to feed themselves and collectively sell their surplus produce. Umgibe aims to be the rope of hope that pulls unemployed and underserved communities up.
Umgibe Stop Hidden Hunger is about empowering communities in South Africa towards sustainable and environmentally-sound development through planting crops, growing livestock combined with resource mobilization and skills training. It aims to eradicate poverty, hunger and malnutrition and improve livelihoods and enhance access to quality nutrition, water, shelter, education, health, information technology and equitable income generating opportunities.
Umgibe Stop Hidden Hunger provides holistic, responsive solutions and interventions and set up practical and sustainable projects which will result in long term community development and upliftment and allow participants to reach their full potential.
