Building Local Resilience with Mugove Walter Nyika, Gudza Ramuka Ecovillage Zimbabwe

Mugove is a natural farmer and a community development facilitator, focused on the building resilience and food sovereignty in African communities. His mission is to use his life skills, land use design skills, and passion for the environment and community to listen, encourage, and inspire people to look after themselves and the environment, especially the next generation, as the custodians for the future. Over the last three decades, he has played a central role in the development of the integrated land use design process as a tool for inclusive and participatory whole school land design and community engagement.

Mugove has worked with communities and organizations across the African continent and facilitated the founding of the Regional Schools and Colleges Permaculture Program, or RESCOPE, in 2006, which now shares green technologies and permaculture techniques in Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Today, Mugove serves the movement as a general coordinator for RESCOPE and the development facilitator for the Gudza Ramuka Ecovillage in Zimbabwe. I hope you enjoy our conversation on community resilience and the powerful act of connecting locally.Please note that English is a second language for most of our guests. We do offer transcripts and our show notes at ecovillage.org/community-resilience.