Activities and budget

• The goal of this project is: to improve the livelihoods of farming community communities through sustainable farming practices in the COMESA Region . The specific objectives are:
  Objective 1
  1. To increase the adaptive capacity 65 000 male and female households to Climate change and its effects.
  Activity 1: Tree planting and tree care
  
• Community mobilisation and site identification in three districts of Zambia
• Conduct trainings in tree planting and tree nursery establishment
• Establish tree nurseries of more than 5000 seedlings in the three districts of Zambia
• Conduct tree planting in three districts of Zambia
• Tree care and maintenance and regular monitoring visits
• Capacity building in carbon trading and other CC related techniques
• Conduct training in producing crafts not using forests products
• Conduct training in sustainable use of forest products at community level.

Activity 2 Organic and Permaculture nutrition gardens

• Conduct capacity building of communities in organic and Permaculture nutrition gardens establishment.
• Provide SSFs high yielding, flood, drought and disease resistant seed varieties for planting and further multiplication
• Establish demo-sites for CC adaptation showing water harvesting and organic nutrition soil improvement techniques
• Provide tools and other inputs for labour reduction, CC adaptation and improving agricultural production
• Conduct learning visits for farmers to project sites with good practices
• In partnership with the relevant government departments and other stakeholders, provide technical backstopping
• Provide extension services in sustainable ELUM systems including organic conservation farming and Agroforestry
• Conduct training in organic gardening as a business.

OBJECTIVE 2
2. To harmonise knowledge and skills in climate smart agriculture among CSOs and government institutions in COMESA region

Activity 1

• To promote successful marketing mechanisms for increased household income
• Conduct trainings and provide technical backstopping in PMCA and other market access methods for implementing members and other project partners
• Provide support for platforms bringing the different chain actors of the selected value chains together
• Conduct training and provide support for production for the market: business management, marketing, record keeping, leadership and financial management
• Conduct training/exposure visits in post harvest handling of garden produce
• Support the establishment of low-cost processing units for value addition
  Objective 3
  3. To improve coordination and learning among stakeholders including government institutions.
  Private sector. CSOs and extension service providers.

Activities

• Conduct research on technologies that conform to CC smart agriculture
• Build capacity of extension staff on organic CC smart gardening initiatives in conjunction with governments
• Support and facilitate trained staff to provide extension services to SSFs on organic CC smart nutrition gardening technologies
• Publish one reading manual on organic nutrition gardening as it relates to climate change.