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The Conservation Farming Unit (CFU) will support capacity building in CA through a continuous capacity building program that provides CSA/CA training to extension agents in the project sites, farmers, input suppliers, and other value chain players identified by the project.
The three main objectives that CFU will focus on are:
1. Increase adoption of CSA technologies by an additional 10,000 farmers across the 3 project sites by March 2025
2. Increase agricultural land adjacent to CFMAs under sustainable practices to 10,000 hectares by March 2025
* 3. At least 10,000 farmers adjacent to CFMAs equally assisted to sustainably improve their productivity and net income through facilitation of input and market support, financial linkages and linking the farmers to available digital information and transaction services.

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Conservation Farming Unit (CFU) was engaged by Trident Foundation Limited (TFL) in Kalumbila through the renewal of a one-year contract to run from June 2022 to May 2023. The project objectives are:
1. To promote crop production through extension services for the 600 resettled households/farmers.
2. To identify and promote high-value crops that can be grown within the catchment area.
3. To facilitate mechanised farming that will result in increased production footprint and yield.
4. To enhance mindset transformation through visible felt leadership and illustration of best practices in conservation farming.
5. To provide agribusiness capacity building with emphasis on crop production and basic entrepreneurship literacy training.
6. NIRAS Accelerate Water and Agriculture Resource Efficiency (AWARE) PROJECT
The three main objectives that CFU will focus on are:
1. Increase adoption of CSA technologies by an additional 10,000 farmers across the 3 project sites by March 2025
2. Increase agricultural land adjacent to CFMAs under sustainable practices to 10,000 hectares by March 2025
* 3. At least 10,000 farmers adjacent to CFMAs equally assisted to sustainably improve their productivity and net income through facilitation of input and market support, financial linkages and linking the farmers to available digital information and transaction services.

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3. GRZ/World Bank funded TRALARD. The CFU managed component of the project was operating in six districts
of Muchinga Province and consisted of four components whose activities are interconnected and mutually complementary and reinforcing:
1. Promoting Diversified, Resilient, Sustainable Livelihoods
2. Management of Community Forests and Protected Areas
3. Project Management, Coordination, and Monitoring
4. Contingency Emergency Response Component (CERC, Standardised)
The three main objectives that CFU will focus on are:
1. Increase adoption of CSA technologies by an additional 10,000 farmers across the 3 project sites by March 2025
2. Increase agricultural land adjacent to CFMAs under sustainable practices to 10,000 hectares by March 2025
* 3. At least 10,000 farmers adjacent to CFMAs equally assisted to sustainably improve their productivity and net income through facilitation of input and market support, financial linkages and linking the farmers to available digital information and transaction services.

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The CFU’s GBP25m Climate Smart Agriculture Zambia Programme (2016-2021) is generously supported by Britain’s Department for International Development. At present, this is the largest programme run by the CFU, covering 43 districts in Zambia. In 2017 alone, 216,000 farmers were trained under this program, with 32,995 adopting for the first time.
The three main objectives that CFU will focus on are:
1. Increase adoption of CSA technologies by an additional 10,000 farmers across the 3 project sites by March 2025
2. Increase agricultural land adjacent to CFMAs under sustainable practices to 10,000 hectares by March 2025
* 3. At least 10,000 farmers adjacent to CFMAs equally assisted to sustainably improve their productivity and net income through facilitation of input and market support, financial linkages and linking the farmers to available digital information and transaction services.

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Unwavering Norwegian support was critical to the development and expansion of the CFU for more than 15 years, allowing the CFU to scale up to the size it is now. This support financed the Zambian CAPI (2006-2011) and CAP II (2011-2016) Programmes as well as the CARP (2011-2015) Programme, which was rolled out with in-Country Partners in Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi and Kenya. The value of the Norwegian contribution over this period was close to USD$80 million. The CFU is currently implementing the NORAD-funded RCSAP Programme through its partners in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
The three main objectives that CFU will focus on are:
1. Increase adoption of CSA technologies by an additional 10,000 farmers across the 3 project sites by March 2025
2. Increase agricultural land adjacent to CFMAs under sustainable practices to 10,000 hectares by March 2025
* 3. At least 10,000 farmers adjacent to CFMAs equally assisted to sustainably improve their productivity and net income through facilitation of input and market support, financial linkages and linking the farmers to available digital information and transaction services.

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The CFU has collaborated with UNDP on the “Strengthening Management Effectiveness and Generating Multiple Environmental Benefits Within... and Around the Greater Kafue National Park and West Lunga National Park in Zambia” since 2016. By providing approximately 2,400 families with the skills and knowledge to farm profitably and intensively using CF, it is intended that Game Management Area deforestation and predation be halted.
The three main objectives that CFU will focus on are:
1. Increase adoption of CSA technologies by an additional 10,000 farmers across the 3 project sites by March 2025
2. Increase agricultural land adjacent to CFMAs under sustainable practices to 10,000 hectares by March 2025
* 3. At least 10,000 farmers adjacent to CFMAs equally assisted to sustainably improve their productivity and net income through facilitation of input and market support, financial linkages and linking the farmers to available digital information and transaction services.
CFU Regional Programme Partners

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CFU Tanzania forms a part of the Zambian CFU, and shares a mandate to promote CSA interventions and technologies, through specialised training support, extension services and advocacy and promotion of CA. CFU Tanzania works in 7 Districts: Same & Moshi Rural in Kilimanjaro, Monduli in Arusha Region, Babati and Kiteto in Manyara and Mbeya Rural and Wangingómbe Region.
The three main objectives that CFU will focus on are:
1. Increase adoption of CSA technologies by an additional 10,000 farmers across the 3 project sites by March 2025
2. Increase agricultural land adjacent to CFMAs under sustainable practices to 10,000 hectares by March 2025
* 3. At least 10,000 farmers adjacent to CFMAs equally assisted to sustainably improve their productivity and net income through facilitation of input and market support, financial linkages and linking the farmers to available digital information and transaction services.

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REDS is a Ugandan non-governmental organisation that focuses on the improvement of livelihoods of smallholder farmers... by providing efficient farming practices that protect lives, soils and the environment. REDS trains civil society in CSA Practices, advocates for CSA awareness and promotes cohesion amongst farmer groups for sustainability.

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PAFID, the Kenyan In-Country-Partner of the CFU, has implemented the NORAD-funded Regional Climate Smart Agriculture Programme... in three Eastern Counties – Kitui, Makueni and Meru. Since the inception of RCSAP 698, Lead Farmers have been selected and trained in CA MT and along with the PAFID field staff, they have trained 8,617 smallholder farmers (70% women) of whom 2,518 have adopted CA MT on at least a portion of their farm. There are now 25 mechanised and ADP tillage service providers offering time and cost-efficient services to farmers, and 49 officials from 15 CSOs have undergone advocacy and leadership training, and their members have been trained in CA MT.
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