30 July 2012

Three teams from across the international food and drinks sector have taken on the challenge of a lifetime by agreeing to climb North Africa's highest mountain to raise funds for Farm Africa.

The teams come from the UK-based food companies Moy Park and ABP UK and the Zurich-based SABMiller Trinity (Zug), a subsidiary of SABMiller, the South African brewing multinational.

27 July 2012

Following the success of the first phase Farm Africa has now embarked upon a new phase of the project, working with the same 920 farmers from 46 farmers’ groups. This second phase has seen farmers move from the demonstration plots onto co-operative farms where they are putting their training into practice, and seeing some dramatic results too.

14 July 2012

Since the project began Farm Africa has worked with forest communities to establish 84 Forestry Management Groups with more planned. These groups are across Amhara, Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s Region (SNNPR), Oromia and Beni-Shangul Gumuz regions.

10 July 2012

Members of Afar’s Alidege community are now able to provide food for their cattle during long dry seasons thanks to the hard work of their Community Development Committee.

03 July 2012

Staff from Farm Africa’s Ethiopia office have just returned from an incredibly valuable exchange trip to the Amazon Rainforest where they studied the measures being taken by forest communities there to promote sustainable development through reducing deforestation.