Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation

Upscaling transformative and gender-responsive climate-smart agricultural value chains

The aim is to reduce gender productivity gaps, enhance entrepreneurial skills and improve livelihoods of smallholder farmers through increased uptake of the high agricultural value chains, such as legumes, horticulture, and dairy farming. SAFFACC aims to upscale tested and promising production and business models in these value chains to increase access to certified climate resilient seeds of legumes and cereals, improve quantities and quality of milk, as well as explore the potential for value addition in Malawi.

To deepen its engagement in promoting Climate Smart Agriculture, SAFFACC will focus on the design and implementation of long- and short-term donor, public and private funded rural and agricultural finance and climate change development programmes in Malawi and southern Africa anchored on the market systems development approach to agribusiness development. Its approach seeks to ensure that public and private sector actors within agricultural systems are supported to perform their functions better, thus ensuring sustainability beyond the life of the funded programme as these are the players that remain behind in the country of implementation.

Conservation Farming

SAFFACC promotes conservation farming practices to intensify sustainable agriculture, improve crop yields per unit area of land, and ultimately contribute to the food security of rural communities. SAFFACC promotes the intensification of farming as a solution to addressing the scarcity of arable land in the face of increasing human populations, and mitigation of the climate change impacts, through enhancing biological diversity within the soil systems and improving soil carbon sequestration.