Thumbnail Image

Lead farmers and early adopters as agents for change

Conservation agriculture as a climate change adaptation practice to enhance productivity in Zambia

Year of publication 2022

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 5p.

Author Kokwe, M., Chama, T., Pali, P., Ramasamy, S.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Policy brief

ISBN 978-92-5-135939-6

Edition 1

To cite or share https://doi.org/10.4060/cb9131en

Synopsis (short abstract) This brief aims to provide policymakers and development partners in Zambia with information to familiarize them on how the promotion of CA amongst farmers can increase the country’s agricultural productivity. It agrees with the priority given by the country to improve capacities for large-scale CA adoption. The brief discusses lessons learned from the integration of climate change adaptation practices (and particularly CA) in cropping systems in Zambia’s Eastern Province, based on demonstration trials implemented by the Strengthening integrated adaptation planning and implementation in Southern Africa smallholder agricultural system to support food security project implemented through the Ministry of Agriculture with technical support of FAO.

Cite this content as:

Kokwe, M., Chama, T., Pali, P. and Ramasamy, S. 2022. Lead farmers and early adopters as agents for change – Conservation agriculture as a climate change adaptation practice to enhance productivity in Zambia. Rome, FAO.

https://doi.org/10.4060/cb9131en

Language English

Also available in:
No results found.

Related items

Showing items related by metadata.

  • Thumbnail Image
    Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet
    Building Resilient Agricultural Systems through Farmer Field Schools
    Integrated Production and Pest Management Programme
    2015
    Also available in:
    Since 2001, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has worked with more than 180 000 farmers in West Africa to build more productive and resilient agricultural systems through the Integrated Production and Pest Management Programme (IPPM). Based on a well-tested farmer field school (FFS) approach, this participatory, community-based educational method combines principles and practices from community development, non-formal education, agroecology and adaptive ecosystem management.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Book (stand-alone)
    Training course material for climate-wise women agents 2024
    Also available in:
    No results found.
    The training course material for climate wise women agents (CWWAs) has been launched in Jordan under the project Building Resilience to Cope with Climate Change in Jordan Through Improving Water Use Efficiency in the Agriculture Sector (BRCCJ). CWWAs will be trained as master trainers in state-of-the-art techniques for climate adaptation and efficient domestic use of water. The CWWA will be responsible for further training four hundred women to become climate wise women (CWW) across the project’s four target governorates.Based on a comprehensive review of the project area and training needs assessment of climate adaptation challenges faced by women in the project target area, the BRCCJ project has designed the course material to cover chapters on gender and climate change, international bindings related to climate change, climate change mitigation and adaptation in agriculture, climate adaptive irrigation technologies, efficient use of domestic water, soil management, budgeting and climate adaptive agribusiness plans, and approaches for climate change adaptation advocacy.The training course material will enable women in the project’s target area to become climate-wise and resilient. Additionally, the business-related topics will enable the climate wise women agents (CWWAs) to support enhanced production systems, guide women towards adding value to their products, and foster entrepreneurship at the household and community levels.The sections in each chapter contain the learning objectives, expected outcomes, sequence of activities, training topics, the required training materials, feedback on training content and its delivery, and resource materials. This course material will guide the participants of climate adaptive agriculture through providing training, training material, training topics, technical contents, and practical demonstrations to strengthen climate resilience at the household and community level.
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Document
    Assessing the Adoptability of Improved Crop Production Technologies by Small Farmers: the Case of Lesotho
    Occasional Paper N. 6 - September 1996
    1996
    Also available in:
    No results found.
    In Lesotho, some externally financed agricultural development projects have appeared particularly prone to failure. One reason may be that, when designed, projects have not been subjected to sufficiently rigorous analysis, particularly with regard to expected farmers' response to extension messages. The thesis of this paper is that the impact of high inter-annual fluctuations in crop yields (and of crop prices) on farmers' expectations plays an important role in producers' decision-making, and t hat this can be measured with sufficient approximation to assess the prospects for the successful introduction of "improved" cropping technologies in small farmers' communities. Stochastic Efficiency Analysis has been applied to the mountain areas of Lesotho, where natural conditions are particularly harsh, but it has wider applicability in project formulation. The paper is based on information gathered by an FAO Investment Centre mission, which visited the Districts of Thaba T'seka and Qacha's Nek in November 1995 on behalf of the Government of Lesotho and the International Fund for Agricultural Development to identify a Sustainable Mountain Agriculture Programme for possible IFAD financing. See also the related FAO Investment Centre Occasional Paper N. 7 "Note on the Machobane system".
Show more

Users also downloaded

Showing related downloaded files

No results found.