Marko Chiumia, Green Ventures

K-Farm Centre and Green Ventures founder, Marko Chiumia (left), with his business partner, Aaron Kapesa.

Flame Tree Initiative met Marko Chiumia when he participated in our 2017 Development Entrepreneurship Lab. That same year, he founded his first social enterprise, K-Farm Centre. Its goal was to provide smallholder farmers with access to affordable farming technologies. Coming from a family of farmers, Marko has a personal understanding of the hardships that they experience and wanted to make a difference. K-Farm Centre focused on sustainable farming, but the environment has cross-cutting issues which encompass agriculture as well as biodiversity conservation, aquaculture, energy, and waste management sectors. Thus, K-Farm Centre relaunched in 2019 as Green Ventures with added services and products that comprehensively address the challenges of rural farming communities in Malawi.

Visit Green Ventures’ website to learn more.