Examples of livelihood skills the College is introducing through its outreach training program.

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Households learn new farming methods that reduce need to clear new land for growing crops while more than doubling yields. Women groups obtain loans to buy oil presses that turn groundnuts and sunflower seeds into cooking oil for both consumption and sale. Women groups obtain loans to start small businesses. These women buy bulk quanitites of dried fish from town and resale as affordable prices to residents. This reduces pressure on fish populations. Skills to set and run small shops are taught by the College. Such small businesses create employment opportunities that replace the need to poach.
With new skills and investments to set up solarized electric fencing, residents in wildlife areas are now able to grow vegetables for the first time. Skills in bee-keeping and honey production are creating new income and reducing destruction of trees and wildlife habitat. Proper techniques to grow vegetables are taught to women groups to promote improved food security and develop local markets for their produce. With the use of solarized electric fencing in wildlife areas, fruit trees like this orange tree are thriving for the first time, again improving food security and offering ways to make income.
As these skills continue to develop and diversify, the College is helping Community Resource Boards find new markets for locally produced products.  One such venture is the Community Shop at the Mfuwe International Airport.  Run by the College, it markets only products produced from communities living in Game Management Areas.
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