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Get Up Stand Up (Project)

Development of actions to combat poverty in the district of Balaka: development of a business network, rural development and food security support to small farmers in the district (Southern Region, Malawi)

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Let's Cooperative Youth Trust, PO BOX 314 - Balaka (Malawi)

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Project Title

Get Up Stand Up

Development of actions to combat poverty in the district of Balaka: development enterprise network, rural development and food security support to small farmers in the district (Southern Region, Malawi)

Town and Country intervention

Balaka District, Southern Region, Malawi

Expected duration

36 months

Other agencies involved

The Cooperative Varco (Italy)

CISL - Bergamo (Italy)

beginning and conclusion of the activities planned

November 2007 / November 2009 (3 successive agricultural seasons)

Subject initiative

This action is a three-year project (3 successive agricultural seasons) rural development aims to enhance, improve and diversify production farming, in the Balaka District, Southern Region of Malawi, in order to ensure self-sufficiency (safety) food to 1,320 families belonging to the most vulnerable sector of the population.

In the long term the project will:

• Develop an economic system with the size of the network

• Reducing poverty in the project area within a framework of sustainable development,

• Improving environmental conditions,

• Increase and improve the level of participation of women in agricultural activities.

The main activities undertaken include:

a. Let's leadership training and coaching Youth Unions in structuring intervention

b. training for farmers, men and women, in order to improve knowledge of local farming techniques,

c. Implementation of activities aimed at the preservation and increase of soil fertility (compost, zero burning, planting of native tree species to atmospheric nitrogen fixation and consequent contribution to the field),

The project will be Implemented by Youth Unions Come Balaka in partnership with 21 churches (parishes) scattered throughout the territory of Balaka District and in cooperation with members of the Cooperativa Sociale Il Varco and CISL in Bergamo.