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Third Quarter | 2018 NEWSLETTER EDITIEDITION 16 || THIRD QUARTER || 2012018 SOLAR ENERGY IMPROVES LIVELIHOODS PLUS ! Warehouse operator brokers partnerships to increase access to credit MUSIKA | 2018 Third Quarter Newsletter Musika is a Zambian non-profit company Message from that stimulates and supports private sector investment in the smallholder the Managing Director market. VISION he 2018/19 farming season is almost before us and we are hopeful Our vision is a dynamic Zambian that farmers, especially smallholder farmers, are ready and have put agricultural market that works for all Tup necessary measures to ensure that they have a productive farming stakeholders and in particular the rural experience. poor. With climate experts indicating that Southern Africa will likely experience an El MISSION Nino phase, which will result in erratic rainfall during the 2018/19 farming season, To provide world class business it is cardinal our farmers consider to diversify and adopt technologies, practices development services to Zambia’s and tools that can help them to cope with eventualities that may result from this agricultural markets to deepen and climatic shock and help build their resilience. broaden the impact of economic growth to all levels of rural society. This edition of our newsletter highlights experiences of how some farming households, through crop diversification, are spreading production and income STRATEGIC GOAL risk over a wider range of crops, thus reducing livelihood vulnerability to Musika aims to “reduce rural poverty weather or market shocks. through integrating farming households in well-functioning agricultural markets”. Through interventions implemented with over 80 private sector partners, Musika Musika is owned and managed by has contributed, to a larger extent, towards the development of a conducive Zambians, developing home-grown environment for farmer behaviour change towards a more diverse range of solutions for the Zambian market. production options. This is supported simultaneously by a retail industry that provides relevant inputs, technologies and associated information and a commodities industry that offers assured markets, extension and other market services around the production of multiple crops including the more drought tolerant such as cassava. NEWSLETTER EDITIEDITION 16 || THIRD QUARTER || 2012018 The last quarter was particularly exciting for us here at Musika because we supported efforts aimed at building a firm foundation for the development of Zambia’s horticultural wholesale markets by jointly organising an investors meeting with IAPPRI and the USAID Southern African Trade and Investment Hub. SOLAR We believe investments in Zambia’s fresh fruit and vegetable markets will accord ENERGY us the opportunity to contribute towards government efforts in diversifying the IMPROVES LIVELIHOODS economy. PLUS ! Warehouse operator brokers partnerships to increase access to credit With best wishes, Reuben Banda +260 211 253 989, +260 211 250 355 Fax: +260 211 255 502 No.1 Pandit Nehru Road, Long Acres Post Net No. 481, Private Bag E891 Lusaka, Zambia. www.musika.org.zm 2 MUSIKA | 2018 Second Quarter Newsletter Contents Farmers help protect Kalomo bulking centre spurs 4 Copperbelt forests by raising women participation in goat bees farming 5 Chibombo woman Smallholders and Smallholder farmers in secures rights to land in 7 agribusinesses to benefit 8 Luapula benefit from 6 her own name from Musika & DEC Zambian Breweries partnership cassava project 2. Message from the 11. Smallholders em- 13. Zambia – A new gateway 15. Agriculture Managing Director brace new mango varie- for fresh produce trade into minister hails ties in Luapula district Africa Zambian breweries 10. Solar energy im- cassava project proves livelihoods of 12. Warehouse operator 14. Better World Zambia smallholder farmers brokers partnerships to makes progress in increase access to credit reclaiming disused mining for smallholders dump site Farmers help protect Copperbelt forests by raising bees By Charles Musonda, Manager - Environment Markets Agroforestry demo at Rainlands nursery (Photo Credit: WeForest) he cutting down of trees for smallholder engagement initiatives charcoal and firewood, and use undertaken by Rainlands. This has Tof fire to clear land for crop resulted in the integration of 750 production has devastated large tracks smallholder farmers in Luanshya, of forests in Zambia. Mpongwe, Chingola , Kitwe and Lusaka into market structures offered by It is estimated that Zambia lost an Rainlands and benefit from not just average 276,021 hectares of forests per the presence of an environmentally year between 2000 and 2014 due to friendly market, but also the delivery deforestation. of other associated market services such as extension, training, access to To help control this trend, Rainlands agroforestry and fruit seedling inputs Timber Limited, a local firm operating and access to honey services. Farmers display plants received under a Rainland on the Copperbelt Province is teaching outgrower scheme (Photo credit: WeForest) farmers to raise bees for honey Musika supported Rainlands’ efforts by production as an alternative source of providing a motor vehicle for extension livelihood, and assisting them to replant provision and a wood-chipper for trees in a bid to restore the natural making wood chips for the stoves. forests. The support from Musika has also enabled Rainlands to venture into John Mwelwa is one such farmer who the production of wooden beehives has installed 10 beehives near his home thereby increasing the profitability of and has planted half a hectare of pine its sawmill. trees. “I ventured into bee keeping for the very first time in 2018 and I am looking forward to selling the honey to Rainlands Timber and use part of the income to buy enough food to feed my family,” explained Mwelwa.. Apart from the bee hives, Rainlands also supplies farmers with cleaner, energy efficient wood chip stoves which consume less wood compared to the traditional brazier that uses large amounts of charcoal. Musika provided financial and technical support to the Agroforestry demo at Rainlands nursery Farmers installing a bee-hive (Photo credit: WeForest) (Photo credit: WeForest) 4 MUSIKA | 2018 Third Quarter Newsletter case of us women,” Ndunda livestock buyers and small- narrated . holder suppliers, and to also Kalomo serve as a service centre for But through a bulking centre livestock input suppliers and bulking centre for small livestock in Kalo- veterinary service providers. mo established in 2015 by Between July and September Kalomo Dairy Development this year, Ndunda sold over spurs women Centre (KDDC) with the 68 goats and 75 chickens support of Musika, small- through the bulking centre. participation in holder farmers including The 48-year-old mother of women can now sell their 10 used the income to pay goat farming goats and profit from their school fees for her children. hard work in a safe and According to Ndunda, the By Enock Siankwilimba, Regional Manager - Southern secure environment. bulking centre brings relief to farmers that use it as rest- Musika provided both tech- ing place for their animals hen Family nical and financial support and themselves as they trav- Ndunda of to KDDC in developing the el longer distance to Lusaka WLwangunduma Small Animal Holding and and the Copperbelt. village, located about 120 Marketing Centre aimed at In a quarter, over 6,000 kilometres on the outskirts promoting open and trans- goats pass through the of Kalomo town, in Southern parent transactions between KDDC centre. Province was faced with financial problems in 2014, her husband would not let her travel to Kalomo to sell some of their goats due to the security risks involved along the journey. Main Image: Goats being loaded into a truck destined for Lusaka and the Copperbelt “Trading then was conducted by the roadside under trees, Insert Image: Staff at KDDC exposing us farmers who load the goats into a truck destined for Lusaka and the had travelled long distances Copperbelt to sell our goats to serious risks such as thefts, hash weather conditions at night, and sexual harassment in the MUSIKA | 2018 Third Quarter Newsletter 5 Chibombo woman secures rights to land in her own name By James Luhana, Manager - Inclusive Business and Tidzitwa Zulu Ilubala, Gender and Rural Markets Manager. Constance Kangende shows off the parcel certificate for her land onstance Kangende is a single n 2014, Musika provided Medeem with In the rural areas, most land is under parent living in Mwachisompola both logistical and technical assistance a traditional or “customary” tenure Cvillage, in Chibombo district, 83 in scaling up its operations to the system where women’s direct access to km east of the Zambian capital Lusaka. ‘’lower end’ of the market in chiefdoms land through purchase or inheritance is located in Southern, Central and Lusaka often limited. To meet the needs of her two children, Provinces. the 30-year old depended on farming There are usually customary provisions on the small piece of land she had To date, Medeem has issued over 465 for indirect access to land in terms of inherited from her parents. ParcelCerts in Chief Liteta’s Chiefdom, use rights acquired through kinship of which 111 are women. Chief Liteta relationships and their status as wives, But one day, she was shocked to find has been instrumental in facilitating mothers, sisters, or daughters. out that a church organisation had Medeem’s operations and ensuring taken part of the land
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