13 February 2020
Farm Africa announces the start of a new project, funded by USAID’s Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation programme, working in partnership with Root Capital to help coffee cooperatives in Uganda, Rwanda and DR Congo reduce the risk that volatile prices in the global coffee market pose to smallholder farmers’ incomes.
13 February 2020
Several communities working with Farm Africa in Ethiopia and Uganda have had crops, livestock fodder and trees destroyed in the worst desert locust invasion to hit the region in decades. Farm Africa is currently developing materials to disseminate to small-scale farmers on control methods for desert locusts.
05 February 2020
Farm Africa is excited to welcome our first crossbred twin baby goats from our project Livestock for Livelihoods. The offspring were born from a local goat from Namalu Nakapiripirit District in Karamoja, Uganda, which was cross-bred with a high-yielding dairy Toggenburg goat.
Farm Africa's Head of Technical Team, Dr Diana Onyango, gave evidence to the House of Commons' International Development Committee last week, explaining how sustainable agriculture builds rural communities’ resilience to climate change, and bolsters food security and nutrition.
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