RMI offers knowledge to farmers through a balanced mix of coaching, training and practical work.
Farmers take up the stuff they need and empower themselves to become more business minded people: outcome subsistence dry land farmers on small plots become owners of a commercial entity that does business growing and selling. They become commercial farmers.
Learn more about our work.
Farmers take up the stuff they need and empower themselves to become more business minded people: outcome subsistence dry land farmers on small plots become owners of a commercial entity that does business growing and selling. They become commercial farmers.
Learn more about our work.
How We do Things:
RMI uses a unique social empowerment approach that puts the people at the centre of development. This is based on RMI’s experience that sustainable development happens though investing in people rather than “material things” and is embodied in RMI’s motto of “Using crops to grow people”.
Our values set RMI apart and enables us to work successfully with communities. We believe that all people have value, talents and the right to opportunities. Our role as teachers and guides is to recognise this in people, to empower farmers with a new vision of creating wealth through doing business and to bring knowledge and new thinking through a balanced mix of coaching, training and practical work. Following this approach, we have seen ordinary people transform their lives and do extraordinary things.
Our values set RMI apart and enables us to work successfully with communities. We believe that all people have value, talents and the right to opportunities. Our role as teachers and guides is to recognise this in people, to empower farmers with a new vision of creating wealth through doing business and to bring knowledge and new thinking through a balanced mix of coaching, training and practical work. Following this approach, we have seen ordinary people transform their lives and do extraordinary things.
A young farmer said "With RMI, we take ordinary, we add some extra, and we become extraordinary".
Another said "When RMI first came we were expecting bags of money. Instead you brought knowledge. And taught us to use it to make our own money"
Another said "When RMI first came we were expecting bags of money. Instead you brought knowledge. And taught us to use it to make our own money"
RMI has also learned to recognise the value and strength of people working together in business. It is this ability to work together that creates room for specialisation, innovation and economies of scale, the keys to wealth creation. Working together is no easy; it requires effort and trust and risk sharing; it needs a clear reason for doing so. We realise the value and challenges of working together and provide a set of tools to enable people to make the change from “working on your own” to “working together”.
Group formation Community
Owned Enterprises
Partnership development
Business Plan Development
Group formation Community
Owned Enterprises
Partnership development
Business Plan Development
OUR APPROACH
RMI has a unique approach to development in rural areas, bringing a set of values and principles that enable the project to operate successfully and sustainably within the local communities.
RMI provides a holistic approach to development through focusing on the areas of Individual Empowerment, Organisational Strength, and Process Efficiency. We provide a set of tools that focus on areas such as:
RMI provides a holistic approach to development through focusing on the areas of Individual Empowerment, Organisational Strength, and Process Efficiency. We provide a set of tools that focus on areas such as:
- Group formation
- Community ownership
- Partnership development
- The change process
- Business Plan Development
- Attitude, Competence and Application Training
- Internal Organisational Strength
- Effective Decision-making