LILONGWE, MALAWI
Malawi Feeds Itself.
We are a passionate, nonprofit social enterprise focused on financial inclusion for food security and economic empowerment.
6 functions
centralized by ZENGA, lifted off the farmer.
1 unit
of organization, the clan, farming together.
Proceeds
Proceeds
reinvested to support additional farmers and for the participating farmers’ benefit.
THE IDEA
Food security starts further upstream than the field
ZENGA began with a question: is ineffective financial governance what keeps Malawi poor? Or is it food insecurity? Then we followed the connection between finance and food security. Follow the chain. Each link depends on the one before it.
1
Finance first
Capital that actually reaches producers
2
Farmers equipped
Inputs, oversight, and a route to market.
3
Food secured
Households and markets fed, season after season
4
Development follows
Productivity in every sector rests on this base
CLIFFORD CHIDYA, Farmer
“We are very excited about all the work ZENGA is doing. They do not only provide us with immediate solutions to hunger but also long-term solutions.”
OUR APPROACH
Urgent Food Relief
ZENGA identifies farmers from the registered groups that are currently facing acute hunger and provides them food relief packages to address the immediate need.
Input Loans
Embrace the power of adequate farm input and farm management services with ZENGA. We offer comprehensive farm input packages and tailored farm management expertise.
Access to Market
Connecting Farmers to Markets: Turning Harvests into Prosperity. Grow with us. This facilitates efficient allocation of food resources.
The Chimanga Pilot Project in Pictures
Finance first. Malawi’s food producers are denied financial capital by collateral demands, costly banking, information asymmetry, and institutions that cannot see them. Until finance is governed and delivered so it can reach a smallholder, every other agricultural intervention is built on quick sand. ZENGA’s whole model starts here.
Farmers equipped. Finance only matters if it arrives as intended, at the right time. ZENGA turns capital into quality seeds, fertilizer, and equipment delivered before the rains, not after, backed by extension support through the season. In turn, productivity increases, and so does output and economic well-being.
Projects
The Chimanga Campaign
Office
Area 22, Lilongwe, Malawi
Hours
Mon – Sun: 8AM – 5PM
Call
(265) 885603738
info@zengaa.com