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Young Kenyan Farmer Remains Resilient To Beat Food Value Chain Break Amid Virus Outbreak

Competition, COVID-19, Kenya /

GFRAS-YPARD Competition “Coping with COVID-19: Stories from the Field” This story won the 2nd Place in the Youth Category in Kenya By KEVIN ODUOR LUNZALU COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted food value chains locally, nationally, and internationally. The business of keeping Kenya fed, is kept going by young, resilient, adaptive, and ambitious farmers who have vowed to […]

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Tackling the Enemy: COVID-19 Control Measures

Competition, COVID-19, Kenya /

GFRAS-YPARD Competition “Coping with COVID-19: Stories from the Field” This story won the 1st Place in the General Category in Kenya By Hudson Wereh Shiraku “If we continue to behave normally, this disease will treat us abnormally. Behaving normal under these circumstances is akin to having a death wish” These were the heart-wrenching words of

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Local Cluster-Based Food Value Chain, Solving Supply Disruption In The Wake Of COVID-19 Pandemic

Competition, COVID-19, Kenya /

GFRAS-YPARD Competition “Coping with COVID-19: Stories from the Field” This story won the 1st Place in the Youth Category in Kenya By KEVIN ODUOR LUNZALU COVID-19 pandemic has disoriented the already vulnerable food value chains in Kenya. With little supply diversification mechanisms especially at the local level, smallholder farmers in Kenya suffer the most whenever unexpected

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Poultry Farmer: Making Ends Meet with Homemade Feed

Competition, COVID-19, Malawi /

GFRAS-YPARD Competition “Coping with COVID-19: Stories from the Field” This story won the 3rd Place in the Youth Category in Malawi By Elizabeth Mandala A 51-year-old Nellie Manjandimo thought Corona Virus Disease (Covid-19) would halt her fifteen years old poultry business. She puzzled upon hearing the announcement of a possible 21 days’ full lockdown in

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New Opportunities within the Dark Days of COVID-19

Competition, COVID-19, Malawi /

GFRAS-YPARD Competition “Coping with COVID-19: Stories from the Field” This story won the 1st Place in the Youth Category in Malawi By Joseph Gondwe CHEMA world is a livestock production company that raises “naturally raised” pigs, chickens and goats. Naturally raised means that there are raised without addition of hormones, antibiotics or animal feeds for

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Dealing with emerging issue of COVID 19; underlying global food insecurity

CF News, COVID-19, Kenya, Newsletter /

By Silvia MuburuCIKM facilitator, KeFAAS Food security and economic crisis have highlighted both the urgent need and potential for developing sustainable agricultural systems. Nearly one billion people – one out of nine globally – lack access to adequate food and nutrition. It is envisioned by 2050 the global population will surpass 9 billion people, and

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AFAAS rapid migration towards a digitalized workspace

AFAAS News, COVID-19, Governance, ICT, Innovation, News and Updates, Newsletter /

By Dr Silim Nahdy Executive Director During the recent months, AFAAS has rapidly adopted to digital working mode. Board members are having periodical virtual meetings, connecting from twelve countries across Africa. The Secretariat has been conducting weekly or bi-weekly meetings and in addition, the AFAAS network at Country, Continental and Global levels have organized periodic

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MaFAAS for coordinated response to COVID-19 in extension delivery

CF News, COVID-19, Malawi, Newsletter /

By Aubed Kang’ombe ZuluMaFAAS CIKM Officer Extension service delivery involves farmer to extension worker meetings, trainings, shows and Information Communication Technology (ICT). Farmer to extension worker contact has become a major challenge in the COVID-19 period and this has affected extension delivery for all stakeholders in the field of extension. Participatory rural appraisals where farmers

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Ending Gender Based Violence in Agriculture Sector with Gender Champions

CF News, European Union, FAO, Gender, GIZ, Malawi, Mobile /

Winfred Khwangwala, 66, is married, with 5 children and 4 grandchildren. He is a community-based facilitator and gender champion for Malamulo Farmer Field School (FFS) at Helemani Village, Traditional Authority Khwethemule in Thyolo. He became a full- time farmer in the year 2017 following retirement from his profession as a Printer at Malamulo Publishing House

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Deepening and widening strategic partnerships and collaborations through Farmer Field School

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There is a growing awareness in the development community of the challenges in conventional agricultural extension advisory services to meet the needs of resource poor people in a rapidly changing world. As a result, more people-centred and demand driven approaches are in demand. The Farmer Field School (FFS) approach provides a platform at community level

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EXTENSION FOR RESILIENT FOOD SYSTEMS AMIDST COVID-19

AFAAS News, COVID-19 /

Africa must produce food strategically and buy food smartly if food and nutrition security is to be attained and sustained in the unfolding Covid-19 pandemic. Agricultural extension and advisory service (AEAS) is desperately needed to broker the movement of timely information to Africa’s producers and consumers in order to enable resilience in food systems under

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