Summary Report of CIS/CSA training and technical assistance provided under AICCRA Zambia

AICCRA Zambia has conducted several trainings to increase the number of beneficiaries accessing and using enhanced climate information services and climate smart agriculture innovations. A total of 306 (41% females) participated in the CSA CIS trainings in 2022 (Figure 1). Majority of the trainings (except for the internship innovation programme) were one off (short term) training events targeting researchers, producers, agribusinesses, and policy makers. The trainings included gender and social inclusion specially aimed at increasing the number of women beneficiaries accessing enhanced climate information services and climate smart agriculture technologies. The project created a multistakeholder platform bringing together various stakeholders from different sectors such as the universities and research institutions, government, non governmental organizations, including CGIAR center and many others. This report summarizes some of the trainings that were conducted during the year under review

AICCRA project accelerates CSA/CIS scaling through agribusiness partnerships in Zambia

AICCRA Zambia project led by IWMI enters into a strategic partnership with ACDI/VOCA (https://www.acdivoca.org/about/at-a-glance/) (Accelerator video to SMEs: https://youtu.be/mTXpagVFhxA; Accelerator launch video: https://youtu.be/Ogzr7pAmNgs). This has created a wide stakeholder dialogue space for the private and public sectors to find possible partnership models for addressing problems of climate change affecting water and food security situation in the country. Five SME partnerships were awarded accelerator grants aimed at increasing access to climate information services to over 300,000 farmers in Zambia by 2023

SSU video episodes and implementation of CSA technology packages in key value chains communications campaign

This report presents Shamba Shape Up (SSU) video episodes and implementation of CSA technology packages in key value chains communications campaign in Zambia. To scale up climate delivery systems, several platforms (mobile phones, the internet, radio, and television) were used, leveraging their benefits

AICCRA Zambia Beneficiary Report

AICCRA Zambia partnered with agribusiness-based small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to increase access to climate information services for over 300,000 farmers negatively impacted by the effects of climate change. This partnership has resulted in 118,746 (36% women) smallholder farmers accessing and adopting climate smart agriculture technologies in the following agriculture value chains: off-grid solar irrigation; integrated aquaculture agriculture system; climate-smart seed varieties; and integrated mixed chicken/goats–legume system

CGIAR week of science and practice of scaling agri-food system innovation workshop report

The Ukama Ustawi week of science and practice of scaling agri-food system innovation took place in Nairobi from 22 – 24 November 2022. More than 100 participants from CGIAR, GIZ, agribusinesses and financing platforms, public and private scaling partners, and donors attended the events

AICCRA Country Scaling Vision: Zambia

AICCRA Zambia emphasizes integrating climate information services (CIS) into the CSA bundles as it is a necessary condition to enhance the scaling to be best-fitted to specific contexts, thereby strengthening the relevance of the CSA-CIS bundles. Adaptive scaling approach is selected for such best-fit and relevance to the contexts while enabling the agri-food system transformation as illustrated in Figure 1. Adaptive scaling is ˝processes where diverse actors-networks cooperate, feed off, adapt to, support, compete and interact with each other to form mechanisms and undertake the niche, reach, accelerate and transform functions of the scaling ecosystem˝ (adapted from IWMI, 2021). In the niche, actor networks identify the applicability of the innovation, respond to systemic barriers and opportunities, and adapt the innovation to new contexts