Strengthening Smallholder Resilience in Malawi

Tiyeni helps Malawian farmers achieve food security by increasing land productivity, addressing the adverse impacts of climate change and increasing sustainability.

Tiyeni provides specialized training in the Deep Bed farming method: a package of sustainable farming practices that conserves soil and water, increases soil fertility, and assists farmers to double their crop yields in the first year of adoption. Some of the key practices are breaking the soil hardpan, making planting beds along precise contour marker ridges, creating box-ridged furrows, raised footpaths to avoid compaction of beds, manure application, organic ground cover through mulch and cover crops, agroforestry, plant associations that include legumes and no burning of crop residues to enhance fertility.

Tiyeni provides training to farmer groups, government ministry of agriculture (MoAIWD) and NGO field extension workers, research and academic institutions involved in farming activities.