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Why Our Agri Peace Model Matters?
Why Our Agri Peace Model Matters?
Across eastern DRC, many responses to food insecurity and livelihoods are well-intentioned but fragmented: short emergency distributions that ease hunger for a season, single-sector projects that ignore social tensions, and farming practices that rely on repeated tilling, monoculture, or costly external inputs. Those approaches can provide temporary relief but rarely restore the land, change behaviours, or repair the social bonds that make communities resilient. In places where resources are scarce, this cycle of dependency and competition often feeds the very conflicts projects aim to reduce.
Our approach — what we do differently
Our approach — what we do differently
Agri Peace is an integrated, community-led model that combines practical conservation agriculture (Foundation for Farming, FFF) with intentional peacebuilding and economic design. The difference is not one small tweak — it is a whole way of working:
Mindset + Method, not just inputs.
Mindset + Method, not just inputs.
Instead of delivering seeds or fertiliser alone, we teach FFF practices (minimum tillage, mulching, correct seed spacing, crop diversity, and high management standards) while also working with farmers’ values and motivations — restoring stewardship of the land and confidence in their skills.
Learning together → becoming families.
Learning together → becoming families.
Trainings are cohort-based and paired with dialogue exercises, cooperative tasks, and shared responsibilities. Participants who start as individuals learn together, solve problems together, and form teams that act like extended families — sharing labour, protecting each other’s plots, and resolving disputes internally.
Locally owned and culturally grounded.
Locally owned and culturally grounded.
Programs are co-designed with chiefs, women’s groups, youth networks and partner NGOs (e.g., FfFI, local chefferies). This ensures relevance, local legitimacy, and sustainable hand-over.
Economic pathways, not dependency.
Economic pathways, not dependency.
We connect higher yields to market access, savings groups, small grants/seed capital and value-addition (processing, collective marketing) so families convert production into income and dignified enterprise — alternatives to risky coping strategies or recruitment into armed groups.
Integrated peacebuilding, not an add-on.
Integrated peacebuilding, not an add-on.
Every agricultural intervention is intentionally linked to reconciliation: community dialogues, joint demonstration plots with mixed-ethnic teams, and local mediator training mean that improved livelihoods and restored relationships advance side by side.
Conservation Farming for Peace and Resilience
Conservation Farming for Peace and Resilience
Our conservation farming approach empowers local farmers to restore degraded land, increase yields, and break cycles of poverty and dependence. By combining simple, climate-smart practices like mulching, minimal tillage, composting, and agroforestry, we heal the soil, conserve water, and steward creation. More than growing food, we’re cultivating dignity, self-reliance, and peace—one farm at a time.
Training of Trainers
Training of Trainers
A New Generation of “Farmers of Peace” Rises
A New Generation of “Farmers of Peace” Rises
Congo Peace Academy’s Agri Peace program continues to offer transformative Foundation for Farming (FFF) Training of Trainers to hundreds of farmers on the beautiful island of Idjwi. This's no ordinary training — it's a powerful convergence of hope, healing, and hands-on agricultural education.
For communities long marked by violence, displacement, and division, this training is a radical act of restoration. It reaffirms our belief that regenerative farming can regenerate communities, not only economically, but spiritually and socially. These trainees are now champions of change, ready to pass on their knowledge and cultivate peace where it’s most needed. We are incredibly proud of these brave individuals — especially the young women — who are stepping up to lead in spaces where peace is fragile but deeply needed. Photos from the training are included below. They capture the spirit of resilience, joy, and shared learning that define these sessions.
Your support can help us scale this model. As we prepare to expand Agri Peace to more regions affected by displacement and conflict, we invite you to partner with us in training the next cohort of Farmers of Peace — those who will nourish both the soil and society.
Our Recent Reports
Our Recent Reports
Agri_Peace_Idjwi_Expansion_Report_April_2025.pdfCPA _FFF Expansion Report_Idjwi_June 2025.pdfCongo Peace Academy work.pdfCongo Peace Academy Annual Report 2024 - 2025.pdfPhotos of our events
Photos of our events
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