06 March 2020
International Women’s Day is here, giving Farm Africa an opportunity to reflect on how our projects are empowering women and girls in eastern Africa. Farm Africa’s Livestock for Livelihoods programme, funded by UK aid, supports pastoralist women in South Omo and Karamoja to set up sustainable, small goal rearing enterprises to generate income and provide them and their families with a more nutritious diet.
06 March 2020
Naphtali has joined Farm Africa’s Growing Futures project in Kenya. Before joining, he struggled to fetch a good price for this vegetables. Now with a contract with the export company VegPro, his income has grown.
04 March 2020
Since 2018, Farm Africa’s Cashew and Sesame Value Chain Project, funded by the European Union’s Emergency Trust Fund for stability and addressing root causes of irregular migration and displaced persons in Africa, has offered technical and business training to young people and women in Kwale, Kilifi and Lamu Counties to help them start skilled service provision businesses within the cashew and sesame value chains.
02 March 2020
Farm Africa is piloting market-led solutions to aquaculture development in Kenya. The project increases the volumes of fish produced by small-scale farmers and improves their access to markets by developing clusters of farmers who together can offer a consistent supply of fish.
With funding from the IKEA Foundation through AGRA, Farm Africa is supporting 50,000 farmers in Embu and Tharaka Nithi in Kenya to promote regenerative agriculture methods which build farmers’ resilience to climate extremes, improve soil health and boost yields, enabling farmers to protect their land, and their livelihoods.
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