Agriculture

Agnes Chipamba, a DAPP graduated teacher, has been tirelessly promoting the establishment and maintenance of vegetable gardens at Kanjira primary school in Mzobwe zone IN Lilongwe rural where she is a teacher under the DAPP graduated teachers network known as 400 primary schools program. The…

DAPP Malawi in partnership with the Norwegian Association of Disability (NAD) and The Technical, Entrepreneurial and Vocational Education and Training Authority (TEVETA) launched a Skills for Resilience Project (SRP) also known as the Young Farmers club project in Chiradzulu district in August 2018…

DAPP Malawi in partnership with the Malawi Government through the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security embarked on a program known as DAPP Dowa women farmers club in 2012 with the aim of reducing poverty and increasing equality amongst women farmers in Chibvala EPA in Traditional Authority…

Chiradzulu Women Farmers Clubs have impressed Development Aid from People to People (DAPP) Malawi for effectively applying climate smart agricultural practices through potholing and agro-0forestry in its on-going integrated value chain enhancement project called Going Nuts. Speaking when he visited…

Doreen Chimwaza, 38 year-old woman, hails from Kadambo Village Traditional Authority Bvumbwe, Thyolo district. Doreen got married 18 years ago and has seven children. For the first 14 years in marriage, she had a regular life. “I used to wake up at 4 AM, go to a nearby forest to collect firewood,…

The DAPP Dowa Women Farmers’ Club project has handed over a physiotherapy centre to Manondo community in Traditional Authority Nkupula in Dowa district. The centre is expected to reach out to over 50 children from the surrounding communities through restoring of movement and functioning of body…

DAPP Malawi through the Macadamia Value Chain Enhancement project also known as has trained 10 youth, five from Thyolo and five from Mzimba districts, in Agriculture Production in order for them to work as Farming instructors for Macadamia nuts farmers.The training that included both theory and…

Empower Rural Women – End Hunger & Poverty The contributions of rural women are central in food production and food security. Therefore it is also necessary to spearhead efforts to expand their opportunities to economic participation and gender equality. The potential for sustainable development…

The DAPP women farmers’ clubs encourages women to work hand in hand with their husbands in order to improve food security and the economic status of their families. The project women empowerment via farmers clubs programme, is aimed at improving household food, nutrition and income security in…

Women farmers in Chikhwawa are reaping rewards from improved livestock management as more women are now engaged in piggery and goat farming. Mary Coster says before the women joined that DAPP farmers clubs they were practising subsistence farming which in the wake of climate change made livelihood…

Mzatonse farmers cooperative in Chikhwawa is poised to be among the biggest milk suppliers in Chikhwawa and beyond. What started like a small business group, with 20 members Mzatonse Farmers Cooperative enjoys membership of more than 200 farmers with Kasinthula Centre which has 121 members and…