Increase the production and yield of nutritious crops in targeted smallholder farmers through training extention agents and smallholder farmers on sustainable production, processing, consumption of nutritious crops (biofortified crops, legumes, vegetables, etc.) and quality control of stored agricultural products

Extension agents and smallholder farmers in Ethiopia, Mali, Nigeria and Uganda will receive technical trainings on increased productivity, post-harvest handling, processing and consumption of nutritious crops such as vegetables, legumes and biofortified crops (e.g. pro-vitamin A maize, iron-rich beans and orange-fleshed sweet potatoes). SAA will provide the seeds of nutritious crops and the minimum required fertilizers with smallholder farmers as a starter kit and conduct a series of technical trainings on production with ToT-educated extension agents using the demonstration plots (SAA style cascade extension model). SAA will also train some farmer's groups on seed multiplication so that they are able to increase revenue for sale of the seeds and others in the same community have an affordable access to the seeds necessary for sustainable production of nutritious crops. The training on quality control of stored agricultural products (e.g. inhibition of aflatoxin by hermetic storage facilities such as PICS bags, metal/plastic silos) will be also conducted.