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Our Impact

Through our conservation agriculture initiatives, we’re making a measurable difference in farming communities and the environment.
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Farmers Trained Per Year
We train over 200,000 farmers each year in 45 districts of Zambia. Nearly 50% of the farmers that we train are women
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Trained Farmers Adopting CA
In the last 2 years, over 54% of the farmers that we trained went on to adopt CA practices for the first time.
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Yield Increased
Those farmers who adopted went on to increase their yield by an average of 88% above those who did not.
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Product Value Per Hectare/Year
It is estimated that each farmer who benefits from our training increases their production value by $187 per hectare/year.
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Success Stories

Conservation Farming works. It is not a technology that looks nice on paper but can’t be scaled up by ordinary people faced by ordinary challenges. It works quickly and visibly and it changes lives. There are thousands of people who have testified to this – here are a tiny sample of people we have interviewed recently.

Vincent Sepiso

VINCENT SEPISO After his retirement in 2004, Mr Vincent Sepiso (from Kabulwebulwe, Mumbwa District) started farming, using conventional farming practices. Despite the hard labour he was getting very low yields and his field was becoming depreciated in terms of nutrients. Since he started farming the highest yield he had ever achieved, even in a good season, was 15 X 50Kgs of maize per hectare. Mr Sepiso had attended CFU training for many years and thought doing CF was a sheer waste of time and never bothered to do it until the 2017/2018 season, when his local CFU Farmer Coordinator saw that Mr Sepiso has been attending trainings and never trying. The FC decided to make him a host farmer for 3 sessions of all the 3 periodical trainings, after which he decided to “try just 10 kg of maize seed on my 2 Limas of hired ADP Rip lines”. The

Steward Siapapala

DON’T GIVE UP TRYING TO DO IT RIGHT: STEWARD SIAPAPALA Steward Siapalala, is a CF farmer in Itezhi-Tezhi district under Shimukuwaila village of Chief Kaingu. Steward was a conventional farmer since childhood and his yields were ranging between 40 to 45 bags x 50Kgs in a good year and 15 to 23 bags x 50Kg in a bad year. When conservation farming was introduced to him in 2012 by the Ministry of Agriculture, he never liked it – he thought it was for poor people. He thought of trying it using the Magoye ripper which he bought at Magoye research station but the results were very poor because he had no knowledge about the technology, and by then the use of herbicides were not pronounced in the area. Disliking the technology, he abandoned his Magoye ripper for some years, taking it to be a waste of time to rip because

Ruben Shamboze

FARMING AS A BUSINESS: RUBEN SHAMBOZE Reuben Shamboze has a background of being one of the successful businessmen in Nangoma’s Corner Bar area. He owns a big shop where he is stocking hardware, building materials and seed. He spent about 12 years just concentrating on this business, but decided to start farming as a business (in 2016/17) due to the fact that his hardware business is seasonal from the month of April to somewhere around October, after which the sales goes down from November to March and there is not much activity. During the first season (2016/17) Reuben did about 5 hectares of maize for a start, all of which was based upon conventional tillage. He hired animals to plough his fields and after ploughing they went in and made some furrows, planted and buried the seed. Fortunately enough the rain season was very good and made him harvest about

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