NASFAM: Enhancing Member Livilihoods through an Alighned Self-Sustaining Enterprise Supporting smallholder farmers to produce for pre-identified specific, reliable and more-rewarding markets, with particular focus on food processors, value addition and export markets including fair trade sector. The immediate objective is to transision the NASFAM System into a financially sustainable enterprise. In the long term the project aims to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Malawi and subsequently contribute towards resilient sustainable food systems and poverty reduction. 

Outcomes
a) improved smallholder farmers access to profitable markets - to be achieved through promotion of contract farming, collective marketing and provision of incentives.
b) increased member yields in an environmentally sustainable manner - climate smart agriculture will be promoted
c) a more engaged and socio-economically empowered membership built.
d) a robust and effective system that support the NASFAM business model developed.
e) Financial sustanability of the NASFAM System achived. value addition and agroprocessing of maize, rice, groundnuts, chillies will be intensified.

Total budget for the entire programme is NOK159.328 million. Part of this will be financed by Irish Aid who will provide the sum of NOK75 million over a period of five years.