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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.

Richmond Songolo Excels in Mumbwa

Mr Richmond Songolo is a young man from Mumbwa District who started practising conservation farming in 2015, having received training from his local CFU Farmer Coordinator. He is married with four children – one girl and three boys. He had previously farmed, for about 4 years, a 2ha field using conventional methods. On average, he would harvest about 160 x 50kgs bags on this field (about 80 bags per Ha). Since switching to Conservation Farming methods he has been able to expand the area he farms to 13.5 ha, 3.5 ha of which are rented from his neighbour. He has been able to take on this greater area due to the success of the CF methods and the use of herbicides, and the profits that he has realised, part of which he has used to buy a ripper. Last season he planted 10 ha of maize, 1.5 ha of soya

Mr. Zilole Zulu

Mr. Zilole Zulu Mr. Zilole Zulu is a 44 year old farmer from Zilole Farms in chief Zingalume’s area in Chadiza district. Married with seven children, Mr. Zulu has been farming for a long time using the conventional farming methods of Ox ploughing and ridging. It was not until 2016, that he heard about conservation farming when he visited a relative in Katete who was a CF ADP MT adopter. He immediately noticed the difference between his own crop back in Chadiza and his cousin’s crop which was clearly far much better than his. It dawned on him that this method of farming was worth trying. That same year he was able to attend the Agri-tech show at GART in Chisamba, where he again saw the CF MT practices being exhibited. The show reinforced his resolve to try out this new farming method. The attempt to try ADP ripping almost

Mrs Timale Banda

Timale Banda, is a farmer who was widowed when her husband died in 2007. He left her with 5 school going children. In the picture below is Mrs Timale Banda and 2 of her grandchildren. She managed to sponsor the other five of her own children to go to school and university and today, they are grown up and have their own families to look after. She is a hard working woman that manages to put food on the table for herself and her dependants.   The picture below, in the foreground, is an example of maize grown using FISIP inputs which arrived too late for the season. Her maize (pictured in the background), on the other hand is in great shape.         She became an adopter in 2010 after going through the CFU trainings with her FC. When she started she did not believe in the

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