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CCARDESA is a Sub-Regional Research Organisation created by SADC member states to coordinate agricultural research and development in the SADC region. Established in 2010 and formally launched in July 2011, partnering with national, regional, and continental institutions CCARDESA advances the regional agricultural research agenda.

To achieve the organisation’s strategic objectives, performance at CCARDESA is guided by strategic policies that establish guidelines and protocols and set clear expectations on how employees should carry out their tasks effectively and efficiently.

As a matter of fact, regular and proactive policy reviews are an important part of every policies and procedures management plan to keep the organization up to date. In addition, it is a general rule that policies must be reviewed periodically.

It is in this regard that CCARDESA is intending to engage a reputable and technically qualified consultant to review the organisation’s Human resources policy and procedures manual to align it with the organisation’s mission, vision, goals, technological advancements and the rapidly changing workforce trends.

Plano de Gestão de Resíduos - Centro Regional de Liderança da Mandioca: Malanje-Angola

Rural labor markets in Africa are frequently characterized by underemployment, with farmers unable to fully deploy throughout the year one of their most important assets—their labor. Using a nine-year panel data set on 1,407 working-age adults from rural Malawi, we document changes in rural underemployment over this period and how they are associated with urbanization. Nearby urban growth results in increased hours worked in casual labor (ganyu) and in non-agricultural sectors, at the expense of work on the household farm. Improved ur-ban access is also associated with a small increase in wage labor and, at the intensive margin, with hours supplied in household enterprises. We draw lessons from these results for policies, investments, and interventions to leverage urban growth for rural development.

The pangs of climate change are real coupled with the rampant deforestation that is happening due to increased land pressure. This is an inspirational video where Mr. Andrew Goodmans is advocating for farmers to grow Giant Bamboo. Bamboos can cater for household and community needs in less than five years. The household only needs 10 bamboo seedling at afordable price.

This video demonstrates a new cost effective and innovative approach of in-Country Research Teams to conduct a phytosanitary and other assessments of their produce, capture them on a video and send it to the potential market.  In turn, the potential buyers watches the video and make a recommendation and approves whether to open their market to the seller/producer or not. Consequently, the market players saved a lot of time and financial resources for a team of deligates was supposed to travel from the South Africa to Malawi. This Video resulted in the opening up of the South African Market to Malawian mangoes, Right now (since 2023), Malawi is exporting Mangoes to South Africa.

NPPO-Malawi compiled two videos of pre-harvest and post-harvest handling processes that were inspected at Malawi Mangoes Limited in Salama. The video shows how the client complied with the requirements for the export markets including South Africa. NPPO-Malawi conducted the field inspections in three stages as outlined on the Import Permit: 1) Flowering; 2) Fruiting and 3) Harvest and post-harvest stages. This is Part 1 of the videos.

This video demonstrates a new cost effective and innovative approach of in-Country Research Teams to conduct a phytosanitary and other assessments of their produce, capture them on a video and send it to the potential market.  In turn, the potential buyers watches the video and make a recommendation and approves whether to open their market to the seller/producer or not. Consequently, the market players saved a lot of time and financial resources for a team of deligates was supposed to travel from the South Africa to Malawi. This Video resulted in the opening up of the South African Market to Malawian mangoes, Right now (since 2023), Malawi is exporting Mangoes to South Africa.

NPPO-Malawi compiled two videos of pre-harvest and post-harvest handling processes that were inspected at Malawi Mangoes Limited in Salama. The video shows how the client complied with the requirements for the export markets including South Africa. NPPO-Malawi conducted the field inspections in three stages as outlined on the Import Permit: 1) Flowering; 2) Fruiting and 3) Harvest and post-harvest stages. This is Part 1 of the videos.

The present research was conducted to determine the knowledge of farmers from Malawi and Mozambique on the use of cactus (Noppolea Cochenillinifera L. Sam-Dyck) as fodder for small ruminants in dry season. The study took place in Mzimba, Mchinji and Chikwawa districts (in Malawi) and Manhiça, Changara and Lichinga districts (in Mozambique), where 450 farmers keeping ruminants were surveyed through semi-structured interviews. Each respondent was interviewed alone in Chewa and/or English (in Malawi) and Tsonga, Nyungwe, Yao and/or Portuguese (in Mozambique). During the interview, farmers were shown pictures stuck on a poster and numbered (no name), where they recognized the species, mentioned the local name and shared their experience on cactus as fodder. The legend of the images on the poster were listed on separate page to which farmers did not have access. Respondents were allowed to explain the preparation procedure before cacti were given to animals. They were asked to mention other uses of cactus in their region. Related uses were grouped in terms of frequency of mention. Interviews were recorded as audios on a Samsung Galax J1 cellular phone and a notepad. In addition, a literature search was undertaken in order to find some of the most common species of cactus in Africa (emphasis was given to East and Southern Africa). Images displaying stems, spines, leaves, flowers and fruits of cacti were collected. The study concluded that most farmers and probably other residents from the districts and villages where the present study was conducted knew cactus as medicine, edible fruit, ornament and live fence. The knowledge of cacti as fodder both in Malawi and Mozambique was negligible.

Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is an important cash crop for small-scale farmers in Mozambique. The yield is dependent on various factors of plant management, and this can be affected by variations in plant density. In Mozambique the cotton crop is mainly growed in plant and row space arrangement corresponding to 50,000 plants per hectare, which is considered low resulting in low cotton yielding.The goal of this study, was to evaluate the effect of plant density in cotton yield, Gossypium hirsutum L. The experiment was conducted in Namialo village, in a randomized complete block design with four replications in a split-plot, where the main plot was distance between the plants within the rows (15, 20, 25, 30 cm) and distance between the rows (50, 75, 100 cm) as subplots randomized in each plot, making plant from 33000 to 133000 plants per hectare. Results of this experiment showed no significant interaction between the distance between the rows and plants on cotton yield, number of bolls per plant and plant height. In addition, as the distance between the plants increased, the number of bolls per plant also increased. This experiment empathize that the combination of 70 cm between the rows and 20 cm between the plants, with a total density of about 71400 plants per hectare resulted in a highest yield.

Pigeon pea is one of the important legumes for export and domestic consumption in Mozambique. The objective was to evaluate the performance of the genotypes and to stratify environments for agricultural zoning and subsequent recommendation. The experiments were conducted in the northern region of Mozambique, to evaluate grain yield, in randomized blocks, with three replications and 20 long-maturing genotypes, in the 2016/2017 season in four environments. The results were obtained through the joint analysis and the complementarity of information from the biometric methodologies of Eberhart and Russell, Centroid and GGE-biplot aiming at better use of the significant GXE interaction. A mega-environment (Nampula and Namapa) was observed, of which Namapa district was the most discriminating and representative. The genotypes suggested for a recommendation as cultivars showed average performance. The ICEAP01490 genotype was of specific adaptability to favorable environments (Nametil and Namapa district) and high stability, is recommended for medium to high technology environments and the ICEAP01498 genotype was of specific adaptability to unfavorable environments (Nampula and Montepuez district), is recommended for low technology environments. The ICEAP01409 genotype can be indicated for a general recommendation. The ideal genotype with high mean, general adaptability and high stability was not observed, suggesting evaluations in more environments.

The purpose of this Finance Manual is to provide Accounting and Financial Control guidelines to all staff at CCARDESA, particularly the Finance and Administration staff in implementing financial management and preparing CCARDESA’s statutory financial statements for the fiscal year and other reports. Further, it will serve as a guide to the day to-day finance and accounting policies and procedures.