Restoring soils, empowering farmers, and transforming communities through regenerative agriculture.
Reviving soil fertility and empowering women farmers to lead sustainable change.
Every number here comes from a village where families now eat better and the ground holds water again.
“Faithful stewardship of God's creation.”
BORA Alliance was founded and registered in 2022 by crop scientists from Africa University, inspired by a vision to restore soils, strengthen families and empower communities through sustainable agriculture. In 2025 the Government of Burundi formally recognised BORA Alliance as a trusted partner in national development.
From the soil up: restoring fertility, growing nutritious food, and teaching the next generation to farm without exhausting the land.
Promoting regenerative techniques that rebuild soil fertility, restore degraded land and turn demonstration farms into learning hubs.
Training farmers in organic standards and bio-input production, and building local value chains for organic food.
Linking agriculture to nutrition through school gardens, mother-led training and diverse diets grown close to home.
Our flagship Nest Program helps children of farming families access scholarships and quality agricultural education.
Reforestation, watershed protection and climate-smart practices that strengthen community resilience to a changing climate.
Our flagship programme
Our flagship Nest Program helps children of farming families access scholarships and quality agricultural education.
Maramvya, Gatumba and Kanura: three communities, one method.
More than 50 smallholder farmers, most of them women, trained to grow vegetables in Climate Smart Nutrition Gardens without inorganic fertiliser.
Over 800 smallholder and commercial farmers trained in conservation agriculture, compost making, organic remedies for crop diseases, irrigation and crop rotation.
More than 300 students trained to establish Climate Smart Nutrition Gardens for vegetables without inorganic fertilisers.
Project Updates
A Climate Smart Nutrition Garden costs almost nothing to feed. In Maramvya, more than 50 farmers have built one.
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Research & Innovation
A plot of 16 by 39 metres is enough to show what conservation agriculture can do.
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Community Resilience
At Kanura High School and other schools, students are learning to grow food the regenerative way.
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Together, we can regenerate Burundi's soils, nourish its people, and inspire sustainable agriculture across Africa.
