Happy Farmer’s Day 🇿🇲🌾. Conservation Farming (CF) Minimal Tillage (MT) practices are widely acknowledged as technologies that offer all farmers the opportunity to increase their productivity and yields, adapt more effectively to adverse climatic conditions, improve the fertility of their soils and minimize negative impacts of agriculture on the environment. It is a win for everyone! BCP, in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, has been working with farmers in an effort to address food security challenges through the farmer to farmer extension model. In an effort to respond to the country’s vulnerability to climate change challenges, which directly affects food security in the country, BCP has invested in Climate-Smart Agriculture technologies. With agriculture expansion as such a major threat to the forests, Climate-Smart Agriculture helps to provide food security and a sustainable future for some of Zambia’s most nutrition insecure families. Benefits of Climate-Smart Agriculture: 1. Improved soil nutrition 2. Increases the soil organic carbon pool over time 3. Promotes improved yields using far less land. As part of this livelihood initiative to impact communities at a household level BCP currently supports: •376 Lead Farmers trained in Climate-Smart Agriculture. •9,400 Follower Farmers trained across both of our Projects. •85 Female Lead Farmers. •5,000 Hectares of farm land under sustainable agriculture farming techniques. 📸 of Veronica C Banda, Lead Farmer, Mnkhanya Chiefdom, LCFP. #farmersday #conservationfarming #climatesmartagriculture #sustainableplanet #peopleandplanet #livelihoods #climatechange #climateaction #REDD #Strongertogether #conservationfinance #greeneconomy #greenzambia #carboncredits #carbonoffsets