MEET DOROTHY MAKINA : A CHAMPION OF CLIMATE CHANGE FROM SENANGA,WESTERN PROVINCE

Dorothy Makina is willing to learn more about 
making her farming climate resilient

Like farmers all around the Zambia, those in Western province are aware of the consequences that the prolonged drought will have on their household incomes and nutrition. Just by looking at some of the stretches of dry crop fields that line the roads leading to the countryside it is easy to believe that most small-scale farmers will not harvest much.

It is for this reason that farmers are being compelled to take up proactive interventions to ensure that they have enough food to last them until the next farming season.

Dorothy Makina from Senanga district of Western  province can be described as one of the resourceful farmers in the district. She has a flock of 80 goats, she also rears chickens and owns a few cattle too. Every farming season she normally cultivates 6 hectares of her land with maize for consumption and for sale.

As expected from the prolonged drought, however, her entire maize crop failed.

SHARING DATA KEY TO ACCURATE REPORTING ON MALABO COMMITMENTS

The participants at the Knowledge Managment training workshop
on Data Capture &; Monitoring/Reporting on Malabo Commitments

By Natasha Mhango

The commitments of the 2014 Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agriculture Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity and Improved Livelihoods, come to an end in 2025 which is literally next year. The Malabo Commitments, as they are usually referred to, were the product of a 2014 African Union Heads of State meeting in which member states committed to fostering agriculture -led development in order to reduce poverty and end hunger in Africa by 2025.

This targeted approach saw various African countries also commit to allocating 10% of their public expenditures towards financing agriculture, boosting intra-African trade in agricultural commodities and services; as well as ensuring regular a biennial review process to track and monitor the progress being made.https://www.resakss.org/sites/default/files/Malabo%20Declaration%20on%20Agriculture_2014_11%2026-.pdf

While a significant number of signatories to the Commitments are not on track in achieving some of the set targets, they have however made significant progress in the right direction.

During a recently held training workshop on Knowledge Management and Monitoring /Reporting of Malabo Commitments that was held in Chisamba, Zambia,