Agriculture / Farm Resilience and Livelihoods Advisor

Under the overall guidance of the Project Manager the Farm Resilience Advisor on the project will each be responsible to provide technical insights and advisory services to mainly farmers, on diversification and mixed cropping with food security and nutrition related food crops that are compatible with productivity enhancement, and facilitate farmer adoption of regenerative agriculture in smallholder white sorghum system. The Advisor will support the project manager and project partners to meet the overall objectives, as well as identifying opportunities and areas for improvement, to ensure quality delivery.

Duties & Responsibilities

The key responsibilities of each Advisor will include the following:

• Oversee the effective implementation of the project plan to increase sorghum production among smallholders and commercial farmers in the districts of the target project area.
• Promote across project area diversification, and sustainable production of sorghum is part of farm system both in terms of agronomy and revenue/cash flow
• Promote mixed cropping with nutrition and food security related food crops that are compatible with productivity enhancement of white sorghum system.
• Promote regenerative agriculture through sustainable intensification and
• agroecology including practices such as minimum tillage, cover cropping, enhanced on-farm biodiversity and mixed cropping, improved soil water holding capacity.
• Strengthen farmer loyalty towards GGBL sorghum grain sourcing.
• Identify and profile farmers for production support.
• Lead in the quality management of grains for delivery.
• Lead technology transfer activities to farmers.
• Support aggregators in grain mobilization and delivery.
• Monitor and collect data on farmer learning plots and other M&E indicators for learning.
• Monitor the performance of farmers in the production of sorghum.
• Ensure annual production targets of aggregators and farmers are met.
• Support the formation and operationalization of VSLAs.
• Lead the mobilization of actors around sorghum production in at least four (4) districts of the project.