10 August 2020
Farm Africa has designed a Livelihood Promotion and Resilience Building project, funded by the Swedish government through WFP, to bring pastoralist communities (host and refugee) together to form irrigation cooperatives to address recurrent climate extremes and bring life back into degraded grasslands.
30 July 2020
Farm Africa took part in Ethiopia’s Green Legacy Campaign in the Oromia Region, planting local tree nurseries in the town of Mojo, Galorape and Abine Garmama to support a national movement to protect Ethiopia’s landscape and diverse fauna.
16 July 2020
Urgent support is necessary to complement the already ongoing efforts by NGOS, governments and UN agencies, otherwise the desert locust crisis will lead to increased vulnerability of pastoralist and agro-pastoralists communities throughout the greater Horn of Africa.
15 July 2020
With funding from Irish Aid, Farm Africa is working to ensure that more than 100 groups of pastoralist women in Karamoja in north-eastern Uganda, are able to keep their goats healthy throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
22 April 2020
The Waitrose & Partners Foundation has unlocked £200,000 from its Global Fund to protect farming communities overseas adversely affected by the current COVID-19 pandemic. The package will include £88,000 in support to Waitrose’s suppliers in Kenya, with whom Farm Africa has been working since partnering with the Waitrose & Partners Foundation in 2017.
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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