Malawian Partners
NASFAM
The National Smallholder Farmers’ Association of Malawi (NASFAM) is the largest independent, smallholder-owned membership organization in Malawi. The NASFAM concept grew out of a USAID funded project to support and organize smallholder tobacco production. Since 1995, the NASFAM focus has diversified production to other cash and food crops. NASFAM, as it is now, was legally registered under the Trustees incorporation Act in February 1998.
It is founded on the principles of collective action and is democratically governed by its members. It aims to be the leading smallholder-owned business and development organization in Malawi, producing economic and social benefits for members, their communities and the country in order to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers. Through a sustainable network of smallholder-owned business organizations, NASFAM promotes farming as a business in order to develop the commercial capacity of its members, and delivers programmes which enhance member productivity.
For more information on NASFAM please visit their website.
JANEEMO
JANEEMO is a novel agro-forestry enterprise initiative in southern Malawi, promoting the use of oil-based trees and their products. Three tree species, Jatropha, Neem and Moringa, collectively known as JANEEMO, are being grown by farmers on marginal lands and as living fences around households and fields. The trees all have multiple uses. Their oil-rich seeds can be processed to produce locally used biofuels for lamps, stoves and generators, or turned into soap. The residue from this process can be used to produce biogas for cooking and then finally as an agricultural fertiliser. In addition, extracts from the Neem and Moringa trees have important nutritional as well as medicinal uses.
Contact
Grant Davidson,
International Development Officer,
Macaulay Land Use Research Institute,
Craigiebuckler,
Aberdeen, AB15 8QH
t: 01224 395000
e: grant at janeemo dot org
w: janeemo.org