ACSAA Malawi Inception Workshop

1. NASFAM and Climate Smart Agriculture
by Dyborn Chibonga
CEO
Presentation at Malawi Inception Workshop for Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture in
Africa (ACSAA) to be held at Sunbird Capital Hotel, Lilongwe Malawi. April 20-21, 2015
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2. Overview of Presentation
1. Introduction to NASFAM
2. NASFAM defines Climate
Smart Agriculture
3. NASFAM CSA current
activities
4. Vision for CSA in Malawi
5. Entry points for scaling out
CSA in Malawi
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3. Introduction to NASFAM
• Largest smallholder farmer organization in Malawi
• Operates in 19 of the 28 Districts
• Registered membership of 170,000
• Exists to improve farmers’ livelihoods in Malawi by promoting
farming as business
• Undertakes development because it makes good business sense
• Provides crop production and marketing support and linkages.
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4. NASFAM defines Climate Smart Agriculture
• An integrative approach to address challenges of food security and
climate change, that explicitly aims at:
sustainably increasing agricultural productivity, to support equitable
increases in farm incomes, food security and development;
adapting and building resilience of agricultural and food security
systems to climate change at multiple levels;
reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture (including crops,
livestock and fisheries).
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5. NASFAM CSA current activities
• Conservation Agriculture
• Crop diversification
• Agroforestry
• Woodlot and orchard establishment
• Irrigation - River diversion, Water
harvesting, Drip Irrigation
• Organic manure making
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CA with Fertiliser Trees
Tree Planting
Drip Irrigation
Water Conservation
Minimum Tillage
Manure Making Vertiver Grass
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Agroforestry

7. Vision for CSA in Malawi
• At least 80% of smallholder farmers in Malawi should have
adopted CSA practices by 2025
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8. Entry Points for Scaling out CSA in Malawi
• Consolidation of demonstrations and field days
• Linkages with research institutions for evidence-based promotion
• Improving access to affordable recommended inputs e.g. through promotion
of community seed banks
• Harmonisation of CSA messages through umbrella bodies e.g. the National
CA Taskforce
• Improving extension system – reducing extension worker to farmer ratio
• Community/public awareness and involvement
• Improving access to markets to increase farmer incomes and therefore their
access to various inputs and technologies
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9. Thank You!
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www.nasfam.org
“The future belongs to the organized”

10. Thank You!
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www.nasfam.org
“The future belongs to the organized”