Increasing Incomes and Enhancing Food and Nutrition Security in Malawi in the Context of Climate Change - GCP/MLW/072/EC
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Although it accounts for around 30 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) and generates over 80 percent of national export earnings, Malawi’s agriculture sector suffers from a lack of diversification and low productivity. The reasons for this include low productivity, a lack of access to farming inputs, weak linkages to markets and limited irrigation, in particular among smallholder farmers. In this context, the present project contributed to Objective 1 of the KULIMA Programme, “Promoting sustainable agricultural growth and incomes to enhance food and nutrition security in Malawi within the context of a changing climate”. Specifically, the project was conceived to support the District Agriculture Extension Services System (DAESS) in ensuring the sustainable increase of agricultural productivity and diversified production. This was to be attained by building the capacity of a pool of Farmer Field School (FFS) master trainers and community-based facilitators (CBFs) drawn from selected farming communities.