This document outlines a vision for smallholder farmers in Southern Africa. It discusses the context of smallholder farmers, who face challenges such as famine, food and nutrition insecurity, poverty, and lack of access to technologies. The vision is to help all smallholder farmers, including those in different gender and hardship categories, to transition out of famine and poverty into commercial, climate-smart farming with improved food security, nutrition, income, markets, and living standards through sustainable empowerment and growth. The document proposes achieving this vision through participatory packaging of scientifically proven interventions at the village level, scaling up best practices through public-private partnerships, market-driven production, and support systems to spread solutions widely.

1. The Vision for Southern Africa’s
Small holder Farmers
Presented at the
Bingu International Conference Centre

2. Presentation Outline
1. Contextual Back ground-Who is the smallholder farmer
2. Why the Vision
3. What is the Vision
4. How to Achieve the Vision
5. Conclusion

3.  Male Able Head of Household
 Female Able Head of Household
 Elderly Head of Household
 Child Headed Household
 All of the Above but coping with Physical Disability
 All of the Above but coping with Impacts of Gender
Disparities and worsened by HIV and AIDS and
more so considering HIV and AIDS as a Gender
Issue
 All of the Above but coping with Impacts of floods
and droughts leading to famine
Who is this Small-holder Farmer?

4. The Small holder Farmer Vision
 Exit famine
 Quickly transit household food,
nutrition and income insecurity
 Into commercial farming with
improved markets and landscapes for
climate smart agriculture
 sustainable socio-economic
empowerment and growth

5. Is it the Same Vision for?
Male Headed Able Households
 Exit famine
 Quickly transit household food,
nutrition and income insecurity
 Into commercial farming with improved markets
and landscapes for climate smart agriculture
 sustainable socio-economic
empowerment and growth

6. Is it the Same Vision for?
Female Headed Able Households
 Exit famine
 Quickly transit household food,
nutrition and income insecurity
 Into commercial farming with improved markets
and landscapes for climate smart agriculture
 sustainable socio-economic
empowerment and growth

7. Is it the Same Vision for?
Elderly Headed Able Households?
 Exit famine
 Quickly transit household food,
nutrition and income insecurity
 Into commercial farming with improved markets
and landscapes for climate smart agriculture
 sustainable socio-economic
empowerment and growth

8. Is it the Same Vision for?
Child Headed Able Household?
 Exit famine
 Quickly transit household food,
nutrition and income insecurity
 Into commercial farming with improved markets
and landscapes for climate smart agriculture
 sustainable socio-economic
empowerment and growth

9. Is it the Same Vision for?
HIV and AIDS and more so considering HIV and AIDS as a Gender
 Exit famine
 Quickly transit household food,
nutrition and income insecurity
 Into commercial farming with improved markets
and landscapes for climate smart agriculture
 sustainable socio-economic
empowerment and growth

10. Is it the Same Vision for?
Physically Disabled
 Exit famine
 Quickly transit household food,
nutrition and income insecurity
 Into commercial farming with improved markets
and landscapes for climate smart agriculture
 sustainable socio-economic
empowerment and growth

11. A Vision for Southern African Smallholder
Farmers
 Exit famine
 Quickly transit household food,
nutrition and income insecurity
 Into commercial farming with improved markets
and landscapes for climate smart agriculture
 sustainable socio-economic
empowerment and growth
An All Inclusive Vision for All
Gender Groups!!!

12. Why the Vision: Refocus
Food and nutrition
insecurity
(Poor land mgt
practices….)
Food and nutrition
insecurity
(Poor land mgt
practices….)
Poor standard and
condition of living
Poor standard and
condition of living
Low exposure to
proven
technologies
Low exposure to
proven
technologies
Income insecurityIncome insecurity
Poor market
information and
infrastructure
Poor market
information and
infrastructure

13. How to Achieve the Vision
:
Emphasis on Participatory Packaging
of Complementing Scientifically
Proven Interventions

14. The Village as Entry and Organizing Base
Use the Village as Entry and Organizing Base for Demand-Driven
Interventions including agroforestry and improved land-scapes as
base activities: “The Future Belong to the Organized” (NASFAM Logo)

15. Participatory Packaging of Integrated
Interventions (PITIEC Package Deals)
Innovative Participatory Progressive and Holistic Packaging of omplementing Interventions
into Integrated Technologies with Information Education and Communication(PITIEC)
package deals for Total Village Transformation

16. Scaling Up and Out of Village PITIEC Package Deals
Scale Up and Out of “Innovative PITIEC Package Deals” and Village –based Best Practices
Enhanced by Private Public Partnerships
Intensify Promotion of the “Four F Trees” Campaign
 Trees for Fertility
 Tress for Fruits
 Trees for Fodder
 Trees for Fuel

17. Market Demand Driven Production
Market Demand Driven Production and Production to Scale:
Enhanced by the Green belting Effect

18. Support Systems for the Package Deal to see more
MVTTS spread like wild fire
Support Systems for Sustainable and Progressive
PITIEC Package Deals

19. Conclusion
Beat famine in Southern Africa with concerted
efforts to:
Focus on the vision for the small holder
farmers in their gender the categories for:
Clear understanding of their various situations
and demands that have implications on
programming for accelerating impact through
landscape and livelihoods regeneration

20. Thank you for your attention