TRANSFORM | Total LandCare

Program is targeting 150,000 agriculture-dependent rural households over a period of 3 years and 6 months (2021 – 2025) within 22 EPAs in the 5 districts of; Dowa, Mchinji, Kasungu, Mzimba and Rumphi. The programme is coordinated by Norwegian Church Aid-Danish Church Aid (NCA-DCA) and Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU).

The goal of the programme is to contribute to sustainable agricultural transformation that will result in significant growth of the agricultural sector in Malawi. The overall objective is to strengthen local food systems and demonstrate a sustainable improvement of food and nutrition security, income, and resilience to climate change among 150,000 agriculture dependent rural households within selected EPAs in 5 districts of Malawi by 2025.

As in other parts of the world, Malawians, especially rural people in general and smallholder farmers, continue to experience and struggle with the negative impact of climate change, persistent poverty, food and nutrition insecurity; lack of employment and environmental degradation. As of January 2019, Malawi scored on 4.81 out of 10 on the African Agriculture Transformation Scorecard2 (AATS) against the 2019 benchmark of 6.66 out of 10. The proposed programme is developed under the premise of ‘transforming the food and agricultural system’.

This programme embraces a holistic approach to sustainable food systems to address the many challenges that face the agricultural sector in Malawi. To achieve this transformation, the proposed programme integrates and consolidates the diverse skills, experiences and lessons from past initiatives of the Development Fund of Norway (DF), Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) and the Norwegian University for Life Sciences (NMBU) based on a long history of implementing successful climate change resilience, research and innovation, agricultural and natural resource programmes in Malawi and within the region.
TLC is implementing the project in Kasungu, Mchinji and Mzimba south targeting 80,000 households. Total funding for TLC is $3.85 million.

Communities showcase food products, Lisasadzi Kasungu.

NCA Directors visit to TRANSFORM sites

On 28th June 2023 the new Country Director for NCA/DCA Stephen Jasen and the outgoing Country director Havard Hovdhaugen visited Total LandCare, Transform project in Mponda Village, Lisasadzi EPA in Kasungu.
The aim of the visit was for the new Country Director to familiarize himself and appreciate Transform interventions being implemented under Transform by Total LandCare. The interventions showcased on the day included Goat pass on program, Mbeya Manure making, Agroforestry, Nutrition, TLC Rocket stoves, Seed multiplication through a seedbank and Conservation Agriculture.

Sustainable Food Systems for Rural Agriculture Transformation and Resilience (TRANSFORM)

NCA Directors visit to TRANSFORM sites