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Join the group
Register with the cluster covering your district, pay dues and accept the constitution the group governs itself by.
Participatory Guarantee System · Zambia
Organic certification, earned by neighbours who know your soil.
Growers declare how they farm, trained peers inspect and score against a standard the group agreed, and the result is anchored to a record a buyer can check — without paying for an audit none of us could afford.
Field photograph
How it works
Four steps, about a season
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Declare your practices
Answer for your soil, seed, pest management, buffers, water, storage and records. Honestly — the inspection checks it.
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Host your peers
Trained inspectors from neighbouring farms walk yours, score each compliance area and record what they saw.
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Get certified and sell
A passing score issues a certificate, anchored to the ledger and resolvable by anyone holding the number.
For growers
Certification you can actually reach
Third-party organic audit prices most smallholders out. Peer inspection does not.
No audit fee — dues and your own time
Inspected by people who know the district
Certificate valid twelve months
Works offline in the field
For buyers
Proof, not a label on a bag
Every certificate resolves to the inspection that produced it, and to the signatures of the inspectors who stood in the field.
Check any certificate without an account
See the score and the areas behind it
Suspended farms come off the market
Settled through your unityzm wallet
Next round
Bring your farm into the group
Membership opens to growers in the districts the clusters already cover.