Agriculture

The Macadamia Nuts Value Chain Enhancement project in being implemented by DAPP Malawi in Thyolo and Mzimba district has this year made its first sale of the Macadamia Nuts to Sable Farming Company. Rolled out in 2016, the project is working with 3000 farmers; 1500 each in Thyolo and Mzimba…

SeedCo Malawi a company that produces hybrid seeds for various crops in Malawi has together with DAPP Malawi been working with 120 farmers from Dowa district. The project known as Weekend Farmers club aimed to introduce new and hybrid crop varieties and modern climate smart agriculture practices in…

Odetta Chimwaza comes from Timothy village in Traditional Authority Thomas in Thyolo district. She is one of the Farmers’ Club members that are growing Macadamia Nuts in Thyolo district under the Macadamia Nuts Value Chain Enhancement project. She has planted 100 Macadamia Nuts trees which she…

DAPP Malawi has been contracted by the Financial Access for Rural Markets, Smallholders and Enterprises (FARMSE) to implement a Sustainable Village Savings and Loans for community members through Farmers Club Project targeting to increase income of 37,500 beneficiaries in Nkhotakota and Nkhatabay…

On 9th December, DAPP Malawi hosted and organized a field visit to Dowa Women’s farmers club project and DAPP Dowa Teachers Training College (TTC) with representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Finland (MFA) and UFF Finland. The field visit comprised of visiting two farmer’s club’s…

Jumabunguzi Cooperative is under the GIZ Kulima MEIRA project being implemented in Salima and Dedza districts targeting Smallholder farmer organizations and micro, small or medium sized enterprises (MSMEs). Members are equipped with knowledge and skills on collective marketing, farmer organization…

Chakuwala Farmers Organisation in Traditional Authority Khombedza, Salima districts is one of the Famers Organisation (FO) under the GIZ Kulima Meira project. Formed in 2014 by members from Group Village Head (GVH) Chimphanga. The main purpose of the club was to collectively access markets for…

DAPP Malawi in Partnership with GIZ under the KULIMA MIERA project is working with 10 Farmers Organisations (FO) in Salima and Dedza districts. The project targets to train the farmers organised in their organisation/cooperatives in activities that will impart knowledge and skills in order to…

Brenda Hawad is a mother of 3 children residing in Kameza Village, Traditional Authority Nkukula in Dowa district. She is the chairlady of Umodzi club which was formed under the DAPP Advance famers club project, an extension of the previous DAPP Dowa farmers project which phased out in 2015. “I…

DAPP Advance Farmers club is an extension of the previous DAPP Chiradzulu Farmers Club and Dowa Farmers Club which phased out in 2015. The project is being implemented in Dowa and Chiradzulu districts with support from the Social Development Fund (SDF) and the Ministry of Trade and Industries…

Salanao Sedrick, a 24 year old lady is one beneficiary of the young farmer’s club project being implemented by DAPP Malawi in partnership with the Norwegian Association of Disability (NAD) and The Technical, Entrepreneurial and Vocational Education and Training Authority (TEVETA) A mother of a…

Based in Traditional Authority Likoswe, Group Village Headman Manguwo in Ntauchira village in Chiradzulu district, Chigwirizano club comprises of 25 members of which 15 are females and 10 males; 3 of the members who have various types of disabilities. The club is under a Skills for Resilience…

The project Manager for the Trade related facility project under the Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Industry, Mrs. Linda Munthali has commended the work that DAPP Malawi is doing in the project through its Cooperative farmers in Dowa district. This was said during a field visit in Dowa district in…

Machinga District council has welcomed the DAPP Malawi’s Screening, Care and Nutrition for the Management of Severe and Moderate Malnutrition in Children Aged 0 To 2 Years project which will be implemented in the district for a period of 12 months.The project’s objective is to contribute to the…

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…