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Interview with Nachilala Nkombo

“African agricultural policies have to be climate proofed”

Zambia Country Director for the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Nachilala Nkombo, discusses the role of both the public and private sectors in adapting agricultural value chains in response to the dual challenges of rapid population growth, and cli…

9 April 2019 in Spore

by Friday Phiri

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Zambia

Climate-smart solutions

Reaping the economic rewards of conservation

To overcome the issues of drought and extreme poverty in Zambia, smallholders are being rewarded for taking up climate-smart, conservation practices to increase productivity and protect their environment.

AR2018/Climate Change

Coping with climate change in Southern Africa

By the time CTA’s regional flagship project for Southern Africa comes to an end in 2020, around 140,000 small-scale farmers in Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi will have adopted a range of climate-smart strategies to help them cope with drought and erra…

Press review

Investors in Agribusiness Exploring US$82 Million Worth of Business Opportunities in Africa

Leading business leaders, policy makers and prominent development campaigners joined over 200 delegates to launch the first ever Nutrition Africa Investor Forum in Nairobi, Kenya, today.

Smart-tech and innovation

Can blockchain plug Africa’s agri-finance gap?

A group of partners are developing a blockchain-powered ecosystem across Africa that they say will boost investment into agricultural infrastructure, allow smallholder farmers to borrow more cheaply and stimulate consumer activity in rural economies.

7 Results in projects and events

Aug 27

Meeting

Review & Planning Meeting of the Southern Africa Regional CSA Project

Monday, 27 August 2018 – Thursday, 30 August 2018

CTA initiated a regional project “Scaling-Up Climate-Smart Agricultural Solutions for Cereals and Livestock Farmers in Southern Africa" to strengthen the resilience of smallholder maize and livestock farmers to climate extremes.

Jul 11

Training

UAS Capacity Building, Enterprise Management and Business Development Workshop

Wednesday, 11 July 2018 – Wednesday, 18 July 2018

Component 1: Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) - To build capacity among African enterprises in making effective and responsible use of UAS and to equip participants with the needed theoretical and practical knowledge to fully and responsibly utilise such systems and market their services.Component 2: Enterprise management - To analyse the structure and functioning of th…

May 8

Conference

10th ICT4D Conference - From Innovation to Impact

Tuesday, 8 May 2018 – Thursday, 10 May 2018

The 10th ICT4D Conference brings together public, private and civil society organisations from across the humanitarian and international development community. Participants share how they have used innovations in technology to increase the impact of their work. Highly interactive and hands-on, the conference attracts a diverse audience of technical advisors, executives, and others who offer a r…

Apr 4

Workshop

International Research Project Spring Symposium - Erasmus University

Wednesday, 4 April 2018

The Economics of Africa II - A multidimensional view on value chainsThe Development Economics symposium has the aim of having a sustainable impact in a developing country. The event this year focused on Zambia, with emphasis on the factors that influence investment in the agricultural sector. Topics like economics…

Jul 1

Project

Promoting agricultural entrepreneurship among rural youth in Zambia

Friday, 1 July 2016 – Tuesday, 1 January 2019

Zambia has great potential to become a breadbasket in Southern Africa, owing to its vast fertile land and abundant water resources, however, of the 58% of land suitable for agricultural production, only 14% is under cultivation. Small-scale farm production in Zambia is often not sufficient to cover basic household nutritional needs and, even if farmers do produce a surplus that can be sol…

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12 Results in articles

“African agricultural policies have to be climate proofed”

Reaping the economic rewards of conservation

Coping with climate change in Southern Africa

Investors in Agribusiness Exploring US$82 Million Worth of Business Opportunities in Africa

Can blockchain plug Africa’s agri-finance gap?

7 Results in projects and events

Review & Planning Meeting of the Southern Africa Regional CSA Project

UAS Capacity Building, Enterprise Management and Business Development Workshop

10th ICT4D Conference - From Innovation to Impact

International Research Project Spring Symposium - Erasmus University

Promoting agricultural entrepreneurship among rural youth in Zambia

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Martin Parr

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