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A collection of impact stories from Farm Africa’s work with smallholder farmers in Tanzania to improve nutrition, increase incomes and protect the environment through the use of climate-smart growing techniques.

A collection of impact stories from farmers taking part in the Building a Resilient Wheat Value Chain and Empowering Small Farmers (BRES) project, funded by AGRA, which is helping 130,450 smallholder wheat farmers in Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia, overcome challenges that are undermining their livelihoods.

This maize production training manual will be used by Farm Africa Village-based Advisors and government extension workers to help improve maize crop management in Uganda. This revised version contains more photos to help farmers comprehend more about better maize farming techniques, as well as additions such as “Farm record keeping” to assist farmers manage their production costs and enhance their income.

This beans production training manual will be used by Farm Africa Village-based Advisors and government extension workers to help improve beans crop management in Uganda. This version contains more photos to help our farmers comprehend more about better beans farming techniques. The revised version also contains additions such as “Farm record keeping” to assist farmers manage their production costs and enhance their income.

With funding from AGRA, Farm Africa’s Sustainable agricultural value chain enterprises in central Kenya (SAVES) project is creating sustainable and inclusive agricultural systems that increase food security, incomes and climate resilience for smallholder farmers and broader rural communities in Meru, Kirinyaga and Laikipia counties.

Smallholder farmers across eastern Kenya are witnessing dramatic transformations in their yields, incomes and resilience to climate change, thanks to Farm Africa’s Strengthening Regenerative Agriculture in Kenya (STRAK) project. Funded by the IKEA Foundation through AGRA, the STRAK initiative is redefining sustainable farming in Embu and Tharaka Nithi counties. Over 50,000 farmers have been directly supported to adopt regenerative agricultural practices that restore soil health, conserve water and boost profits, all while safeguarding the environment.

Agricultural extension services to farmers are vital for enhancing productivity and production of agricultural produce in Kenya. However, the ratio of agricultural extension workers to farmers stands at 1:5,000 compared to the recommended ratio of 1:400. This paper outlines how Farm Africa and AGRA are helping to plug this gap in Embu and Tharaka Nithi counties by creating a network of Village-based Advisors (VBAs) made up of well-informed, passionate farmers who receive specialised training to provide technical extension services, inputs and market linkages to other services to other farmers.

In September 2019, Farm Africa launched a project in Kanungu district aimed at empowering women in the coffee value chain. The project worked with communities to increase the incomes of 2,640 women coffee producers, strengthen their household decision-making power and increase access to resources, enhance the capacity of CGCs to ensure women can leverage market opportunities while also engaging local stakeholders to recognise and reward women’s participation within the coffee value chain.

A report on various seed systems in eastern Africa and how a Quality Declared Seed (QDS) system can help farmers increase their yields and productivity, with case studies from Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda.