Tag: agriculture training
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Zimbabwean Farmer Muzamani Lihinga’s Success with New Sorghum Seed Sales
By Jeko Manata The tale of success in Matihwa village, situated within Chiredzi’s Chilonga area in the semi-arid southeastern region of Zimbabwe, revolves around the remarkable journey of Mr. Muzamani Lihinga. His collaboration with the Sowing Diversity equals Harvesting Security (SDHS) program in Zimbabwe has resulted the opportunity to increase the income for smallholder farmers […]
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Elevating Food Variety in Zimbabwe: Sylvia Zimboko’s Local Food Plant Journey
By Pardon Sithole Women in Africa have played a crucial role in ensuring household food and nutrition security. They have taken on responsibilities in crop production, meal preparation, and diversifying family diets to meet varying nutritional needs. Sylvia Zimboko, a farmer from Zimbabwe’s southeastern lowveld, faced challenges due to recurrent droughts and long dry seasons […]
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Mobilizing Local Food Plants to Combat Malnutrition
By Juliet Nangamba and Diana Mapulanga According to the USAID report on nutrition in Zambia, updated in 2018 indicates that 1.12 million children (40 per cent) under 5 years suffer from chronic malnutrition (stunting or low height-for-age) and 420,000 children (15 per cent) under 5 years suffer from acute malnutrition (wasting or low weight-for-height). Considering […]
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An Insight into the Diverse Farmer Field School Trainings Arranged in Uganda
Clustered Refresher Training on Farmer Field School (FFS) Methodology Refresher training sessions on the Farmer Field School (FFS) Methodology were organized in clusters. In Omoro district, a total of 14 FFS facilitators (8 females and 6 males) underwent reorientation on FFS methodology during the period from 28- 31 August 2023. The primary objective of this […]
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Books 4 Life: Empowering Communities through Community Seed Banks
By Eco Matser, Project Lead SD=HS Community seed banks play an important role in the SD=HS program approach to safeguard the genetic diversity of local crops and increase community food and nutrition security. They provide farmers with a safe storage for seeds as well as a source for seed that disappeared in the community. The […]
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A journey from bonded labor to master facilitator of Farmers Field Schools
By Sahadev KC and Lok Poudel, SD=HS Nepal In honor of women’s day, SD=HS will dedicate the whole month of March to highlighting the great work and strides made by women across the countries where we work. Rekha Chaudhary, mother of a 3-year old and permanent resident of Joshipur rural municipality, was born into a […]
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SD=HS Newsletter | September 2022
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SD=HS in Zambia newsletter | June 2022
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SD=HS newsletter | May 2022
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SD=HS in Nepal newsletter | April 2022
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SD=HS Newsletter | January 2022
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Newsletter | December 2021
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Bringing Farmers to the Table: Innovating Plant Breeding. Workshop #3, 2 December 2021
We began this series of workshops seeking to identify coalitions to strengthen farmers’ engagement in crop variety and seed system development and innovation (see summaries of workshop 1 and workshop 2). The development of either a new proposal or creating explicit and strong links between complementary programs were the intended final outputs. “Let’s get on […]
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Seed Value Chains and Seed Markets Training
Building the capacity of smallholder farmers to produce quality seeds for the market takes long term investment and support. This support starts with a strong core team of technical experts to support seed producing farmer groups. From 26 to 28 October SD=HS organized two hour online trainings on seed value chains and seed markets for […]
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