With support from the European Union (EU), SSLLP in partnership with ICRISAT, IRLI and the Government of Malawi (GoM) is implementing a Crop-Livestock Integrated and Marketing in Malawi (CLIMM) Project which aims at improving livelihoods through sustainable intensification and diversification of market oriented crop-livestock systems. The project is being implemented in Chiradzulu, Balaka and Thyolo…
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SSLLP’s karonga Intergrated Community and Livelihood Project (funded by Bothar) continues to make a difference in many poor peoples lives in some rural communities and has, since 2017, has been distributing cassava and sweet potato cultivars. One of the core aims of the project is to improve the nutrition status and elevate the levels of…
Read MoreAgriculture is about people. People talk all the time, but not always about the right stuff! The most effective way to find solutions to the challenges of farming, is to get people talking – about agriculture, and the solutions, rather than only the challenges. At the heart of agricultural development is changing people’s behavior. In…
Read MoreLast year SSLLP distributed Mbundumale cassava stems to some households in Karonga. We shared pictures and stories of some households that received these on our social sites. As per the norm, once ready the crop should be passed on to another beneficiary. Mr. Kenneth Mvula became a beneficiary of the project this year as he…
Read MoreMr. Mwangomba is one of the beneficiaries who received both sweet potato and cassava cultivars from SSLLP this year. He is a very hard working farmer that has received the development gladly. Mr. Mwangomba managed to multiply the sweet potato vines he was given tremendously and transplanted the vines to an even wider field. He…
Read MoreOur success story: Morris Mwenempiki Morris received a dairy cow from SSLLP on 7 November 2007. This dairy cow calved five times, 3 bulls and 2 heifers. The money she got from selling her bulls helped her a great deal, Morris bought a piece of land at the Boma with this money and built a…
Read MoreSteria Naphiri aged 71 is one of the ten people who received the original high grade dairy cattle in February, 2003.Steria was a business woman before the animals were given to her, for a living she sold fish and beans and when the dairy cattle were given to her she stopped selling beans and fish…
Read MoreBothar is a charity organization that works through local community groups that vary immensely in size and form. Bothar has worked with SSLLP since the beginning of the organization which is in 1996, Bothar has worked with SSLLP on the implementation of livestock resilience projects were hybrid dairy cows and goats were donated directly from Ireland to…
Read MoreIn the year 2003, ten dairy farmers received original dairy cattle straight from Ireland. The strength of this project was in the idea of passing on the heifers from one beneficiary who received the animal to another. After fourteen years of the projects implementation, one might tend to wonder if the project has addressed the…
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