Smallholder Productivity Promotion Programme (S3P)

General

The goal of the programme is to improve income levels and food and nutrition security of 60,000 poor rural households, in three provinces of Zambia: Kasama, Mansa and Lusaka, who depend on agriculture and/or agricultural related activities. The programme will complement the Smallholder Agribusiness Promotion Programme (SAPP) and will support the efforts of the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives (MACO) by enhancing on-farm productivity of smallholder farmers thus enabling them to respond to emerging market opportunities. Land and natural resource governance related activities aim to strengthen the participatory community-level land use planning, management processes land tenure security through the provision of technical support for training and the development of guidelines, these activities will be gender sensitive and include boundary demarcation of female-headed households and women’s fields according to households as appropriate.