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National Smallholder FarmersAssociation of Malawi

Panel Discussion

Food Farmers and Markets,

Smallholder Farmer Perspective

Annual General Assembly of the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development

Annual General Assembly (AGA) to be held in The Hague, Netherlands -

January 30 to 31, 2013

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Dyborn Chibonga

NASFAM


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The Key challenges from perspective of thesmallholder farmer organisation

1. Farming without business goals

2. Smallholder farmers working in isolation

3. Inadequate supportive infrastructure

4. Demands for high quality standards in international

markets

5. Weak integration of smallholder farmers into food

supply chains

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1. Adopt farming as business and work in organised

groups

2. Improve the identification of market opportunities

3. Improve market access

4. Foster technology innovations

5. Enhance product quality and standards

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Practical recommendations for linking up farmers tomarkets


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1. Working in Organised Farmer Groups

2. Provision of Extension & Technical

support3. Farming as Business Training

4. Adherence to Quality Standards

5. Value Addition

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NASFAM work in supporting food farmers andmarkets

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1. Government and Donor support to smallholder farmerorganisations for professional and institutional capacitydevelopment.

2. Strengthen legal framework and support forcooperatives and land rights

3. Public Private Partnerships (PPP) along value chainswith smallholders at the centre

4. Financial and technical support to smallholders toenhance value addition and increase quality and safetystandards

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What else needs to happen by the differentstakeholder groups


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NASFAM started in 1994 as the SmallholderAgribusiness Development Project (SADP), a USAIDfunded project to organise smallholder farmerproduction

Since 1995 the focus has diversified from tobacco toproduction of other cash and food crops includinggroundnuts, rice, chilli, cotton, soya and otherlegumes

NASFAM is now the largest smallholder farmersorganisation with 108,000 members working in 45Associations

Background to NASFAM


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The future belongs to the organized

Thank YouZikomo!

www.nasfam.org

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