12 April 2022, Mchinji District, Malawi - Mchinji Agriculture Assistant Irrigation Agronomist Alice Ngulube, left, and Agriculture Extension Development Officers Thokozile Chipeta, right, and Sellah Nkhwazi, in the background, plus a young member of Majekete Junior Farmer Field Life School (JFFLS) plant pine apple suckers in Majekete Village, Traditional Authority Zulu, Mchinji District, Central West of Malawi, April 12, 2022.
Background information
The Government of Malawi in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) with funding from the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) are implementing a project called "Action for teen mothers and adolescent girls", targeting 647.900 adolescent girls between 10-24 years of age in Mchinji and Dedza districts. Within the project, FAO, in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, is implementing a component called 'Empowering teen mothers and adolescent girls' in which the girls and also some boys in the targeted districts are given basic farming skills through Farmer Field and Life Schools (FFLS), a skills development and participatory extension methodology based on adult education principles to enable the participants gain skills in good agricultural production practices and expose them to essential life and entrepreneurial skills leading to decent independent livelihoods.
