Seed Quality Expert
Participatory Seed Quality Assessment and Improvement; Identification of seed quality breakdown points and recommending appropriate corrective innovation systems; Seed Trade Association of Malawi (STAM); UKAID/DFID-funded ‘Malawi Oilseeds Sector Transformation (MOST)’ project; Adam Smith International (ASI); October 2015 – September 2016.
Seed Systems and Innovation Dissemination Consultant
Making Soybean Seed of Improved Varieties Available to Farming Communities in Malawi; CGIAR consortium – International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA); USAID-funded ‘Malawi Improved Seed Systems and Technologies (MISST)’ project; January 2014 – September 2015.
Seed Systems Specialist
Making New Tikolore Soybean Seed Available to Smallholder Farmers in Malawi; Creating demand for, producing and disseminating seed of the New Tikolore soybean variety; International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA); USAID-funded ‘Seed Systems’ project; July 2013 - December 2014.
Needs Assessment Expert (Agronomy)
Rapid Appraisal/Needs Assessment of Likuche & Chipanga Farmers Clubs, Nkhotakota, GIZ-KULIMA MIERA Program, June–July, 2020 & 10–13 August, 2021 respectively.
Web Development
Consulting firm: Strengthening Cassava Value Chain in Mulanje and Thyolo
Training of Trainers (ToT) in good agricultural practices (GAP) for cassava tuber and seed for farmer associations; GIZ-funded ‘Root and Tuber Crops for improving Nutrition’ project; November-December, 2018.
Capacity Building Consultant
Significance of Knowledge in Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) in Supporting Project Implementation; Development of training materials and training of project managers; World Vision Malawi; Vision Fund ‘Agricultural Financing’ project; December, 2018.
Facilitator: Training of Trainers (ToT)
For widespread impact; Development of training materials and training of farmer associations; Farmer Business School (FBS); GIZ-funded ‘Farmer Capacity Building’ project; Aug-Nov, 2017.
Piggery Consultant
Sourcing piglets of appropriate breed, pig husbandry, breeding and marketing of pig and pig products, Naming’azi Agricultural Development Project, CCAP, Blantyre Synod, Zomba, 2011-2013.
Agricultural Extension Specialist
Accelerating Adoption of Agronomic innovations; Integrated Smallholder Commercial Farming Systems Outreach project; Clinton Development Initiative (CDI); 3 October – 30 November 2016.
Project Agronomist
Development of Alternative Financing Mechanism for Improved Access to and Use of Farm Inputs for Sunflower, Soybean and Groundnut Production; UKAID/DFID-funded ‘Malawi Oilseeds Sector Transformation (MOST)’ project; implemented in partnership with; Agricultural Commodity Exchange (ACE) for Africa; Adam Smith International (ASI); September 2016 – July 2017.
Field Research and Monitoring Expert
Participatory Improvement of Input and Service Provision in Oilseed Value Chains (soybeans, groundnuts and sunflower): Promoting use of adequate products, services and market linkages; A GIZ-funded ‘Nyonga Pack’ project in support of Farmers Organization Ltd. innovations; December, 2016 – August, 2017.
Agriculture Extension Expert
Increasing Malawi’s Regional Trade and Export Earnings Through Participatory Extension of Yield-Increasing Innovations in Soybeans, Groundnuts and Sunflower; EU/SADC-funded ‘Trade Related Facility Project’; implemented by the Ministry of Industry Trade and Tourism, Malawi; December – September 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 seasons.
Value chain Agronomist:
Strengthening Malawi’s Oilseed Value Chains (soybeans, groundnuts and sunflower) through the Private Sector on-farm demonstrations as platforms for disseminating innovations in good agricultural practices (GAP) of the oilseed crops; GIZ-funded project; implemented by Technoserve; 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.
Group dynamics expert
Farmers’ Club Leadership and mind-set change to influence productivity; Titukulane Pig Farmers’ Club (from Balaka); Tambalale Culture Centre, Area 44B, Lilongwe; 9-11 March 2023.
Agronomist
Cassava production for value addition; facilitator in good agricultural practices (GAP) for cassava production and processing and co-facilitator in baking bread from cassava flour; joint venture with Farmers’ Voice Africa (FAVOA); Chinsinsi Farmers’ Club (from Mchinji); Tambalale Culture Centre, Area 44B, Lilongwe; 27-29 February, 2024.
