Africa Climate Leadership Program (AfriCLP) is dedicated to strengthening the leadership capacity of beneficiaries from 15 African countries that includes academics, researchers, development practitioners and policy experts.
This commercially viable and scalable franchise model brings supplies, knowledge, jobs and profits to rural farming communities in Kenya, and is a more profitable model for local agro-dealers.
Researchers developed a probiotic yogurt strain found to improve weight gain in malnourished adults and children, reduce skin rashes, fight diarrhea, enhance immunity in HIV patients, and reduce adsorption of heavy metals and aflatoxins in women a
Media campaigns resulted in over 128,000 farming family members (77,153 male and 51,436 female) using improved legume technology practices (improved seeds, row spacing, fertilizing, weeding, storing, intercropping).
The project achieved a 90% business launch success rate of youth ventures in the fish and poultry sectors.
The project took measures to ensure that young women were provided with the facilities to enable them to participate.
The aim of the project is to generate and test novel business models that increase the participation of youth in the fish and maize post-harvest agribusiness sectors in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe.