Farmers in Mozambique actively engage in agricultural development, a process described in recent literature as Farmer Led Irrigation Development (FLID). FLID is widespread throughout Mozambique (and Sub-Saharan Africa), and is characterized by farmers who take the lead in their own development, making use of opportunities of the market, technology, knowledge, financial and resource potential around them.
In this movie we show the innovative FLID methodology used in the ASPAN-Vale project. This methodology focusses on facilitating the drivers behind (FLID) development so that farmers remain actively in the lead, improving their own (irrigated and commercial) agriculture enterprise and taking ownership of the process and results. As such, APSAN-Vale increases climate resilient agricultural productivity and food security, with a specific objective to increase the water productivity and profitability of smallholder farmers in Mozambique.
The production of this movie was initiated by the Agênçia de Desenvolvimento do Vale do Zambeze, and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Mozambique and produced by the implementing partners of the project, Resilience BV, HUB and Future Water, to be shown on the Climate Adaptation Summit (CAS) 2021 Side event, where the APSAN-Vale project was presented as a promising climate adaptation strategy.
15 фев 2021
