These days, you can really feel that Malawi’s agricultural sector is moving towards a positive change. 

More people now view farming not just as a way to survive, but as an opportunity to grow a business and improve their livelihoods. Each day, this change is being pushed forward by a few key groups. Among these groups, GGEM Farming is an organisation that works hard to support farmers, help local economies, and deal with major problems such as poverty, unemployment, and climate change.  It is a notable group that focuses on the development of Malawi’s agricultural sector. Their primary focus is on climate resilience, especially for small-scale farmers and women. 

GGEM provides farmers with better seeds and equipment, helping them adapt to various climate changes and introduce smart farming methods. They teach farmers how to earn from what they grow and help them get market access, which is key to improving their income and livelihoods. Through several initiatives, GGEM Farming supports nutrition, improved farming practices, and stronger rural economies in the country. In this blog, we will learn about GGEM Farming and its impact on livelihood, including its partners and investors.

About GGEM Farming

How it aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Impact of GGEM Farming

Partners & Investors

GGEM is a marketplace for farmers that collaborates with many investment partners to deliver and present real, optimistic solutions aimed at increasing food security and reducing poverty in Malawi. 

• The project provides small-scale farmers with access to technology, farming resources, financial resources, better research of data, improved practices, and lastly, proper climate resilience tools.
• Altogether, GGEM Farming helps farmers to produce higher-quality and more fertile crops and earn bigger profits. Therefore, investors are planning to partner to shape Malawi’s agricultural future. 
• GGEM invests in staple food value chains and works directly with farmers to achieve an impactful outcome. By giving access to Malawi’s largest and most trusted agricultural marketplace, GGEM is reintroducing a better, more profitable agri-economy to serve the needs of the farmers it supports.

The goal of GGEM Farming is to encourage fair food systems that will help Malawian farmers live better lives. The idea is to make sure farmers earn more money by using farming methods that care for the environment. This brings lasting benefits to their families and local communities.

When GGEM Farming supports farmers’ goals, it is a great investment because they help build better futures for their families, communities, and for Malawi as a country. With its rich land and resources, Malawi can grow enough food for itself and also sell to nearby countries. Through funding, farmers gain access to new tools, important supplies, and useful knowledge. This helps grow stronger rural markets. These farmers make the country more food secure and also learn to invest in their own progress, which is key for the long-term future of rural Malawi.

• GGEM Farming provides farmers a platform to sell their crops and grow their businesses with the help of investors who aim for their success. The investments help farmers grow and earn more. As they keep getting better, they invest their profits back into their farms. At GGEM, more income means real change in people’s lives.
• GGEM Farming aims to provide fair market access to one million farmers within the next ten years.
• GGEM believes that lifting communities is the best way to end poverty in Africa. By helping small farmers sell in better markets, GGEM hopes to change lives and reach the full potential of farming in Malawi and across the world soon.
• GGEM is building a new, inclusive agricultural marketplace. Whether you are looking to invest or buy, working with GGEM can create real impact. The organization is reshaping and introducing a new way of farming by supporting communities, improving incomes, and creating new chances. At its heart, it focuses on getting more profits for farmers. This creates equal opportunities so everyone can grow with Africa’s farming potential.
• In a connected world, fairness must follow. GGEM uses tech to fix gaps in knowledge, funding, transport, and access to markets. These challenges have made it hard for farmers to make a profit and escape poverty. GGEM believes in teamwork and invites others to join in building a better future for farming.

SDG Goal 13: Climate Action

GGEM promotes improved and sustainable food systems by offering farmers interest-free agricultural input credits and training. This helps farmers equip themselves with knowledge of climate-smart agricultural practices, so they can grow food that feeds their communities and stay strong in the future. By implementing yield boosting services, GGEM provides better support to help farmers produce higher-quality, higher-yield crops.  These services also help farmers to get into the GGEM marketplace, which helps increase their income and productivity.

SDG Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

GGEM ensures farmers have guaranteed market access by buying back all GGEM-affiliated crops at competitive market prices. This helps farmers feel secure in their income and also strengthens the local agri-economy.

SDG Goal 2: Zero Hunger

GGEM processes all collected crops and sells food at reasonable and affordable prices. This helps to ensure consistent food availability and improve food security across Malawi.

Working Together to Create Change

GGEM can make food systems better for farmers, local economies, and the planet. As temperatures rise, farmers face real threats like damaged crops, sick animals, and stressed land. These issues hit the poorest countries the hardest, as they often lack access to tools or support to prepare for or recover from floods, droughts, or storms. By working with GGEM, partners can help bring real solutions that guide farmers through climate challenges with simple and useful plans.

GGEM’s Climate Focus

By investing in farmers, GGEM builds stronger relationships and creates new opportunities. GGEM teams up with small-scale farmers to help them reach stable and fair markets. At the same time, the most at-risk farmers get access to the right tools and climate solutions that help them grow more food and protect their farms.

Supporting Food Systems Through Climate Action

With the help of investors, GGEM is working to make climate solutions more available to farmers, both for now and in the future. These efforts focus on growing more food and keeping farms safe from climate risks. This support helps farmers today while preparing them to stay strong for years to come. In the end, it supports communities to protect their work, dreams, and future.

Helping Farmers Now: Climate Tech, Training, and Finance

GGEM provides a program that gives farmers the right training, technology, and money to fight climate change. This includes tools that help them adjust to new weather patterns or reduce their impact on the environment. By providing farmers access to these resources, GGEM helps them grow more with less risk and adopt smarter, greener ways to farm.

Building for the Mid-Term: Tree Parenting

Through the Tree Parenting program, GGEM works with farmers to grow orchards that provide extra income. Farmers receive trees and commit to caring for them, aiming for a healthy survival rate of at least 75 percent. This program builds stronger farming systems by improving soil, protecting nature, and boosting local ecosystems. It also gives short-term financial support and long-term income, as farmers earn from the trees with help from GGEM.

Investing in the Land: Soil Health for the Future

GGEM encourages natural farming practices and focuses on soil health and longer-term profits. These methods sometimes take even years to show results, so GGEM helps farmers with the cost and effort involved. Farmers are equipped with the knowledge to add natural materials to the soil and wait for the land to recover. This approach might be slower, but it leads to healthier farms. GGEM’s support makes it simpler for farmers to stick with these eco-friendly changes.

GGEM believes in putting money back into the pockets of farmers. The organization understands that being able to access the right resources is the key and driving real and lasting change in people’s lives. GGEM provides interest-free farming supplies, along with extension services, market access, and personalized financial training. This complete approach is made to help farmers improve their livelihoods by giving them the tools and support they truly need to succeed. These crucial resources help farmers build both financial skills and practical farming knowledge, encouraging sustainable farming and steady economic growth. The positive effects go beyond the farmers themselves benefiting their families, communities, and ultimately the country of Malawi.

• Enhanced Capacity: Local farmers have shown good progress in terms of applying climate-resilient crops and implementing eco-friendly agricultural practices. This advancement has led to better crops, greater yields, and more sustainable livelihoods for farmers.
• Resilience Building: By using sustainable farming methods and better seed types, farmers are stronger in the fight against climate shocks. These methods help make sure there is enough food in communities that are at risk.
• Improved Financial Access: Now that farmers have financial records, they can request proper financial aid and advice more easily. This helps them get important tools for farming and promotes growth in climate-smart farming.

By investing in women farmers, GGEM is driving change in Malawi. GGEM works to help women farmers in Malawi who find it hard to get funding and resources. Many people in Malawi live in poverty and farm with rainwater only. Women farmers face many problems getting the funding, services, and tools they need. GGEM works to provide these women the tools and help to achieve success in farming. Others are invited to join and help make lasting, good changes.

• Enhanced Financial Literacy: GGEM helps women farmers learn how to manage finances and make smart choices.

• Land Rights: The group works to make sure women have legal rights to the land they farm so they can use it safely.

• Marketplace Inclusion: GGEM tries to give women farmers better access to markets. They work for fair prices and quick payments so women can earn more.

• Increased Incomes: Women often spend their earnings to help their families. They pay for health, school, and save money to grow their income. This is why GGEM thinks women are the best farmers. Their earnings help their families and grow the economy.

• Agri-Economy and Food Security: Growing the farming economy is very important to keep food available. GGEM knows that true community growth starts with having enough food. They focus on helping farmers grow more, farm in improved ways, and get market access more easily, which helps make food cheaper and easier to get for everyone.

• Food Security Impact: GGEM provides food help and climate-smart farming supplies when there are crises by utilizing the Fair Food Relief Aid Network (FFRAN). The fortifies communities and helps people.

• A Trusted Marketplace: GGEM’s Marketplace is open and fair. It provides small farmers with steady chances to sell by buying their crops.

• Revolving Fund: The Revolving Input Fund gives good, interest-free farming supplies. This helps farmers farm better and grow more food in important areas.

• Digital Support: Translating Data into Possibilities: The GGEM App gives farmers real-time information and tools made for their goals. This app helps collect and use data to make better choices and grow food and trade in the region.

Their Impact

Beginning by helping only 16 farmers in 2017, the GGEM has grown into a Marketplace Hub Network that now serves more than 1 million farmers and buyers. In the last five years, this is what they have achieved:

Farmers Served: 40,000+

Acres Cultivated: 100,000+

Meals Sold: 15 million+

Average Jobs Created per Farm: 6

Active Marketplace Hubs: 5

Buyers

Transparency in the buying process benefits everyone. GGEM operates a centralized marketplace based on a competitive buying and selling model that supports a more profitable and sustainable food system for both farmers and buyers. GGEM produce is purchased from farmers at rates above local vendor prices and distributed through a network of retailers and high-volume off-takers. With consistent, traceable sources of high-quality commodities, buyers can reliably fulfill their supply commitments.

Buyers can now either receive their purchases or arrange for delivery. All types of domestic transactions within Malawi are conducted in Malawi Kwacha.

Yes, GGEM offers delivery to the following countries within 14–21 days: Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Buyers from other countries are encouraged to contact GGEM for estimated delivery timelines.

All regional transactions are processed in **USD**. A deposit may be required before dispatch for some buyers.

Buyers may place orders up to 12 months in advance to secure production and delivery of contracted commodities.

Buyers can request specific grades, commodities, and quantities by directly contracting GGEM Farmers to meet their supply requirements.

Investing in GGEM means creating a genuine, measurable impact. The organization calls on partners and investors to support a future where small-scale farmers are no longer among the most impoverished on the continent. In Malawi, over 15 million people depend on agriculture for their livelihoods, yet most farming families reach only 30% of their yield potential. This leaves them trapped in subsistence farming, earning as little as \$50–\$100 per acre, even in favorable seasons. 

By collaborating with GGEM, investors grant their efforts to break the cycle of poverty and hunger. GGEM initiates and starts programs that help food availability and boost farmer incomes through training, financial support, and essential food production services. This approach aims to build sustainable economic growth and food security in low-income African communities. The benefits of such investment go further. Through a fair buying and selling model, GGEM pays farmers significantly more than local vendors. This approach supports rural economies by increasing household incomes, allowing farmers to reinvest in their futures. 

Since 2019, GGEM has responsibly managed debt financing and continues to offer fully traceable, one-year financing terms. The organization does not offer equity sales, ensuring it remains focused on the needs of farmers. Investing in GGEM’s produce purchase fund means placing capital directly into the hands of the farmers who feed their communities.

What Type of Financing Does GGEM Receive?

GGEM Farming receives financing by utilizing Partner Grant Funding and Impact Investment Debt Financing to help farmers

What Type of Entity Is GGEM Farming?

GGEM Farming is registered in Malawi as a Company Limited by Guarantee.

Is GGEM Farming a Registered Social Enterprise?

Yes, GGEM Farming is registered with the Malawi NGO Board and also meets the USA Equivalency Determination criteria.

Malawi’s agriculture and agribusiness sector is changing for the better, and it’s thanks to groups like GGEM Farming. GGEM Farming is not just running a business; they’re helping people improve their lives. The group is working hard to solve real problems, support farmers, and build stronger rural communities. It adds strength to the fight against food insecurity and climate problems. 

GGEM is working with many small farmers, especially women. They help them use better seeds, enhance their soil, and equip them with new skills and knowledge that connect them to specific markets so they can improve their livelihoods. Their focus on nutrition, climate resilience, and community strength is helping make rural life more stable and hopeful.

GGEM Farming is now more than just running a project or a company. They are leading the reformation and transformation of Agribusiness in Malawi. They are developing a better future by enhancing the farming sector of Malawi, making it stronger, fairer, and readier for the future. The impact of their works is visible and noteworthy. We can only hope that with the assistance of GGEM Farming, more farmers will have access to the tools and training, and more communities will become stronger and hopeful.