Our programmes

In many regions in Ethiopia, soil degradation and damage to natural resources caused by climate change is threatening farmers’ livelihoods and affecting long-term food security.

Farm Africa worked with pastoralist women living in South Omo and Karamoja in Ethiopia and Uganda, supporting them to set up sustainable, small-scale goat-rearing enterprises to help them generate an income and provide their families with a more nutritious diet.

We established Women’s Livestock Groups, through which we provided training in goat rearing and fodder and rangeland management.

We improved women’s access to livestock by setting up a revolving goat scheme, which required each woman who received two goats from Farm Africa to give two does (female goats) to another vulnerable woman once her herd had grown, creating a cycle of improved prosperity.

Farm Africa implemented Forests for Sustainable Development, a four-year programme in the Oromia Regional State of  Ethiopia to build on the success of previous programmes in reducing deforestation, cutting carbon emissions, increasing the incomes of forest-dependent communities and addressing sustainability limitations.

The project worked to benefit both people and planet by developing sustainable livelihoods and reducing biodiversity loss, while also improving the resilience of the local community and improving governance for integrated landscape management.