Strengthen food systems

Farm Africa helps to strengthen food systems by:

• Implementing a holistic, systems approach that looks at the connections between producers, consumers, the environment and policy, and simultaneously diversifies livelihood options, builds climate resilience, and reduces deforestation and loss of biodiversity.
• Looking at the value chains of the crops and animals smallholder farmers produce, or could potentially produce, and identifying the bottlenecks they face. That’s where we target support, whether it is increasing production, developing or strengthening input markets, organising aggregation or providing access to finance.
• Supporting farmers to reduce food loss and waste by improving post-harvest handling of produce, improving storage and securing buyers for their produce.
• Increasing women and young people’s participation and influence in the food and farming sectors.
• Promoting environmentally friendly methods of food production such as regenerative agriculture, which improves soil health and reduces carbon emissions.
• Using evidence and data to inform the design of our future programmes and influence the policy and practice of local and national governments, donors, the private sector and other NGOs so that sustainable food production practices can be replicated at a larger scale.