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The article was published after a Training of Trainers (ToT) for the Smallholder Empowerment Programs (SHEP) at Bunda College with support from the SAFE initiative. SHEP originally emerged through trial and error in the process of technical cooperation between Kenya and Japan for improving Kenya’s agricultural extension services. The cooperation started in 2006 and the SHEP Approach was developed as an innovative
method of agricultural extension services backed by the disciplines of economics and psychology. SHEP is an approach in agricultural extension that facilitates small-scale farmers to conduct market-oriented agriculture. The above-mentioned agricultural extension project in Kenya that utilized this method doubled the farming income of 2,500 targeted farmers in just two years. In the opening speech of the 5th Tokyo International Conference on African  Development in 2013, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed his desire to change African Agriculture from “Grow and Sell” to “Grow to Sell”. Building off of this, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has been working with the Kenyan government to spread the knowledge of SHEP to agricultural extension officials and extension staff in other African countries. Currently, over twenty African countries are implementing the SHEP Approach.

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APPSA reached a total of 41,300 lead farmers who in turn shared the technologies, innovations and management practices with other farmers in their communities.

The Agricultural Productivity Program for Southern Africa (APPSA) has been implemented in
Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia. Malawi being a regional center of leadership (RCoL) for maize
based farming systems. The initiative has made a great contribution to the National Agricultural
System and agricultural Development in Malawi. A few, out of many success stories from APPSA
are contained in this publication. This Magazine contains some of the great work that APPSA has
contributed to Agricultural sector in Malawi. So far, APPSA has released 27 improved agricultural
technologies that are already making a tremendous impact in the three countries. APPSA has
also facilitated the promotion of 85 already released technologies. It has trained 43 people on long
term trainings on PhD (10), Masters (23) and Bachelor’s (10) Degree level. It has also sent many
agricultural staff to short term trainings. APPSA has also raised magnificent infrastructure in a
number of research including Chitedze (Lilongwe), Bvumbwe (Thyolo) and Kasinthula (Chikwawa).
These structures included office blocks, laboratories, irrigation facilities, storage facilities
just to mention a few. In general, APPSA project has been holistic in nature and its fruition is still
dripping out.

This poster highlights the work that CCARDESA with the support from GIZ has done in Zambia, Malawi and Zimbabwe in implementing climate-smart agriculture practices which saw improved and increased yields in 19 pilot farms.

This poster highlights the work that Herding for Health is doing in Livestock rearing communities in Lesotho, Botswana, Zambia, Mozambique and Namibia to support rangeland management to mitigate the climate change effects that have ranged the southern Africa Region.

Impact of APPSA support to farmers in Mozambique 

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Impact of APPSA support in Malawi for Rice value chain