Associated Center for Agro-based Development and Entrepreneurship Support: Capacity Building of ACADES

ACADES: Sector Agriculture (cassava), Beneficiaries: 330 farmers, including 147 women, ACADES is a youth owned association that was established by graduate agriculturalist who resorted into farming when they could not get employed after graduating. They decided to work with other young people who are interested in agribusiness. They mobilized the farmers as their objective is to ensure that these young farmers have adequate quality inputs as well as access to profitable markets. They are working with farmers from Mchinji and Lilongwe rural with possibility of expanding to other districts later as they grow. Several NGO's and government departments like the National Youth Council are supporting this initiative.

Source: United States African Development Foundation, IATI activity data via the IATI Bulk Data Service, published under Creative Commons CCZero (cc-zero, as registered on the IATI Registry) (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Read from https://bulk-data.iatistandard.org/usadf/usadf-malawi.xml. Reshaped by All Business Africa into this record; amounts and currency are as the funder states them.