Kulima Academy

Agricultural learning for everyone, anywhere, anytime
2021 SEED Climate Adaptation Awards; Government of Flanders
Green Technologies
Lusaka
Zambia

Agricomm Media and Marketing was founded in 2014 and has been seeking to connect farmers with agricultural education in order to unlock the potential in Agriculture. In 2019, Kulima Academy, an online platform/application was added. Farmers can download the Kulima App to their smart mobile devices and undergo self-paced learning. The payment can be made with either money, credit or debit card. The B2B route involves partnering with NGO's to help capacitate extension staff to execute trainings with excellence and deliver measurably improved results for all their key stakeholders.

Eco-inclusive Impacts
Kulima aims to increase agricultural value chain resilience through the adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices. Improved crop management leads to an improved productivity of agricultural produce and increased farmer incomes.
  • Improved village chicken production for farmers, translating into improved livelihoods
  • Addressing the needs of 3 agricultural value chains: fishery, soya and dairy
  • Empowering women and youth through participation
  • Increasing value chain resilience through the use of sustainable approaches
  • Increasing climate smart agricultural practices by participating farmers
  • Improving agricultural catchments
  • Increasing income from village chicken sales for participating farmers

 

 

Partners

Kulima Academy is an agricultural education service that specialises in unlocking the potential of agricultural extension staff and lead farmers through media and technology. It’s focus on agricultural education, leadership development, and performance improvement allows it to leverage technology to help organisations achieve results that require human behaviour change.

The University of Zambia provides research and development and vets content on the Kulima platform.

 

USAID SUN TA seeks to build the capacity of 13,000 farmers in improved village chicken production. Kulima Academy has since been recruited to provide this capacity through a cascade approach starting with a Trainers of trainers workshops for 80 extension staff from 13 Districts.