Kilimo Bunifu — innovative agriculture

Open workshops on sustainable farming, food sovereignty and Africa feeding itself on its own terms.

The series

A conversation, not a curriculum

Kilimo Bunifu is Swahili for “innovative agriculture”. It is a series of open workshops that Passion of Hope International convenes alongside the International Conference on Appropriate Technology (ICAT).

There is no fixed syllabus. Each edition takes up whatever is most holding back agricultural production in Africa at that moment — or the conversation we believe most needs to happen — always in service of sustainable farming, food sovereignty and African food autonomy.

Farmers, researchers, policymakers, students and practitioners talk it through together, and the threads they pick up carry on after the day.

Collage from Kilimo Bunifu I: the welcome slide, panelists, Zoom sessions, breakaway-room boards and each team's outcomes

Kilimo Bunifu I, 2020 — the session at a glance

Next · Kilimo Bunifu III

Thee Next Gen Awakening – Africa 4.0

Youth agency towards sovereignty in Africa

24 November 2026
Hybrid · Bulawayo, Zimbabwe + online

This time young people are at the centre. Through focus group discussions, interviews and a student questionnaire, Kilimo Bunifu III asks what young Africans know, believe and want to do about food sovereignty, land, governance and value-addition — then brings that evidence into a room where policy and technology decisions are usually made without them.