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ECASARD facilitates the building of community based farmer and civil society organizations, and empowers them through development, education and leadership. This is the foundation for political, social and economic action to improve small scale farmers and processor’s livelihoods.

FIELDS OF ACTIVITIES

  • Mobilizing farmers into group and strengthening their organizational capacity and governance structures
  • Supporting farmers to establish and strengthen commodity clusters. Commodity Clusters are food crops or non-timber forest product (NTFP) units in which activities are undertaken to transform raw materials into products (value addition) that are sold and consumed. These include the direct functions of primary productions (small-scale farmers’ produce), collection, processing, wholesaling, and retailing, as well as support functions, such as input supply, financial services, transport, packaging, and advertising
  • Linking farmers to markets
  • Facilitating linkages between relevant stakeholders
  • Building long term business linkages and commercial relationships between farmers and buyers
  • Training in Leadership, negotiation skills and productive agricultural practices
  • Research on New Adoptive Technologies

PLANNED ACTIVITIES FOR 2025

  • Capacity building on Peasants rights
  • Training in Agroecology and climate resilience
  • Celebration of World Rural Women’s day
  • Capacity building on Minerals and mining law
  • Startup capital on Village Savings and loans
  • Capacity building on how to do advocacy on pressing issues,
  • Capacity building on Nutrition
  • Capacity building on leadership
  • Advocacy for Government to halt all illegal mining activities