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Farm Africa helps communities sustainably manage 200,000 hectares of Ethiopian forest

19 May 2014

200,000 hectares of forest across Ethiopia’s Oromia, Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples (SNNP), Benishangul Gumuz and Amhara regions are now under community management. That’s an area of land more than twice the size of New York City.

Tanzanian media coverage inspires sesame farmers

13 May 2014

Farmers in Babati district are turning to sesame after learning of Farm Africa's work in teaching smallholders how to make the crop climate-tolerant and profitable. Farm Africa has been working with sesame farmers in Tanzania’s Babati district since 2010 – and our successes since then have been widely reported in local media.