Kondwani Udedi

  Discussion happened at University of Nairobi about Role of Social Media in Agriculture

This video shows how one farmer in Mwanza district Malawi named Lester Mpinda Chizumeni managed to organise his fellow farmers and started growing chili for the first time as a commercial crop after watching Access Agriculture farmer to farmer video.

Climate change is affecting smallholder farmers but in Nsanje district, Malawi, farmers are adapting and even harvesting bumper yields.

Due to land infertility, farmers in Msiyamphanje village, Chikhwawa District, Malawi are now making organic manure using a pit.

This film is exploring how villagers in Malawi are able to maintain a borehole with Village Saving Loan interests

Farmers in Nyamithuthu Village in Nsanje District, Malawi organised themselves in a group. The buy and sell farm produce in bulk. At the end of the year their divide the profits according to how many shares does a member hold.

Access Agriculture atteded this year's MaFAAS extension week at Bingu International Conference Center and on ICT (Wednesday 21st June 2017) day Dr Nelso Ojijo made a presentation on Farmer to Farmer training videos

Malawi Broadcasting Corporation Interview Kondwani Udedi about Access Agriculture activities in Malawi

Smallholder farmers innovate by blending old ideas with new ones. In this video, we will visit Lester Chizumeni Mpinda on his farm in Mwanza, Malawi. Mr. Mpinda watched a set of videos on how to grow chilli, and then used the information creatively to grow a crop he had never planted before.

DJ Thomzy is a 20 year old who runs a burning centre at Nkhate trading in Chikhwawa along East Bank road as you are going to Fatima in Nsanje. Nkhata trading is situated at a strategic place near Nkhate irrigation scheme, one of the areas under greenbelt initiative.

Striga is a destructive parasitic weed. In Malawi, Sungani watched the Fighting Striga videos and learned how to protect his crop.

African farmers off the electrical grid are now watching movies on their cell phones. Some are also starting to watch farmer learning videos. In the “Rice Advice” videos, farmers from Bangladesh and West Africa describe simple innovations to boost production.