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How gender norms impact women’s role in forest use and forest management – illustrations from Ethiopia’s Bale Ecoregion
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Ethiopia
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Empower women
Protect ecosystems
How gender norms impact women’s role in forest use and forest management – illustrations from Ethiopia’s Bale Ecoregion
Involving rural communities is important for effective forest conservation, however, women are often excluded from playing an active role in forest-related decision-making, despite the high dependency of rural women on forest products such as fuelwood and non-timber forest products and clear evidence that women’s participation in forest management groups can result in better resource governance and conservation outcomes. This paper unravels the gender relations in rural forest dependent communities in Ethiopia by taking a closer look at the country’s Bale Ecoregion, located in the Oromia regional state.
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Empower women
Protect ecosystems
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Tanzania
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Boost youth employment
Empower women
The role of gender in the Tanzanian horticulture sector
In Tanzania, women and youth are active participants in the agriculture sector, making significant contributions to the sector’s growth. However, the country’s progress towards gender parity across critical areas of life is still at the disadvantage of women. This document shares Farm Africa’s learning from its DECIDE horticulture programme, which has been working with 55 small and medium enterprises (56% women-led) in the Tanzanian horticultural sector.
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Tanzania
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Boost youth employment
Empower women
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Uganda
Key focus areas
Boost productivity
Connect farmers to markets
Empower women
Women’s economic empowerment in the coffee value chain in Kanungu district, Uganda
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.
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Uganda
Key focus areas
Boost productivity
Connect farmers to markets
Empower women
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Boost youth employment
Empower women
Protect ecosystems
Support businesses
Ethiopia Strategy 2021-2025
A five year strategic plan for Farm Africa’s Ethiopia team which contribute to the overall objectives found in Farm Africa’s 2021-2015 strategy.
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Boost youth employment
Empower women
Protect ecosystems
Support businesses
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Empower women
Increase food security and nutrition
Impact of increased women’s incomes on nutrition
Farm Africa’s Livestock for Livelihoods project helped Ugandan and Ethiopian pastoralist women set up sustainable, small-scale goat-rearing enterprises. This booklet highlights how Farm Africa improved 10,000 women’s access to credit facilities and incomes by adding value to livestock products and opening up improved opportunities for sales.
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Empower women
Increase food security and nutrition
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Empower women
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
Household socioeconomic status and women and children’s dietary diversity
Farm Africa’s Livestock for Livelihoods project helped Ugandan and Ethiopian pastoralist women set up sustainable, small-scale goat-rearing enterprises. This booklet examines the factors that improve dietary diversity in women and children, including women’s economic empowerment, production of food crops and the size of livestock herds.
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Ethiopia
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Empower women
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Empower women
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
Goat husbandry by pastoralist communities
Farm Africa’s Livestock for Livelihoods project helped Ugandan and Ethiopian pastoralist women set up sustainable, small-scale goat-rearing enterprises. This booklet examines the factors affecting the adoption of good goat husbandry practices such as the provision of housing for goats, improved feeding practices, fodder production and using services from animal health workers.
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Empower women
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
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Uganda
Key focus areas
Empower women
Increase food security and nutrition
Women and children’s nutrition in Uganda
Farm Africa’s Livestock for Livelihoods project helped Ugandan and Ethiopian pastoralist women set up sustainable, small-scale goat-rearing enterprises. This four-page booklet outlines how the project helped to improve the nutrition of women and young children in Karamoja, Uganda. Wasting in young children (0-59 months), infant and young child minimum dietary (IYCF-MDD) score, and Minimum Dietary Diversity for women (MDD-W) all showed positive trends and improvement during the project life cycle.
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Uganda
Key focus areas
Empower women
Increase food security and nutrition
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Empower women
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
Community Animal Health Workers
Farm Africa’s Livestock for Livelihoods project helped Ugandan and Ethiopian pastoralist women set up sustainable, small-scale goat-rearing enterprises. This four-page booklet outlines how the project created and strengthened a network of community animal health workers (CAHWs) linked to agro-input dealers to enhance pastoralists’ access to quality animal health services.
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Empower women
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Empower women
Increase incomes
Revolving Goat Fund
Farm Africa’s Livestock for Livelihoods project helped Ugandan and Ethiopian pastoralist women set up sustainable, small-scale goat-rearing enterprises. This four-page booklet outlines how Farm Africa set up a revolving goat scheme across South Omo and Karamoja. The scheme required each woman who received does (female goats) from Farm Africa to give does to another vulnerable woman once her herd had grown, creating a cycle of improved prosperity.
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Empower women
Increase incomes
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DR Congo
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Boost productivity
Boost youth employment
Connect farmers to markets
Empower women
Increase access to finance
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
Protect ecosystems
Strengthen food systems
Support businesses
Farm Africa strategic plan 2021-2025
Farm Africa is a leading NGO specialising in promoting sustainable agricultural practices, strengthening markets and protecting the environment in rural Africa. Our strategic plan for the years 2021-2025 outlines our ambitious plan to grow and unlock the potential of agriculture to transform rural Africa.
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DR Congo
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Boost productivity
Boost youth employment
Connect farmers to markets
Empower women
Increase access to finance
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
Protect ecosystems
Strengthen food systems
Support businesses
Key focus areas
Empower women
Increase incomes
Snapshot of women’s engagement in Farm Africa projects in Kenya
To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, Farm Africa has published a snapshot summarising women’s participation in our projects in Kenya. In 2020, more than half of the people Farm Africa supported in Kenya are women. A total of 52% of the 15,520 people reached in Kenya last year were female.
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Key focus areas
Empower women
Increase incomes
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Uganda
Key focus areas
Empower women
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Uganda
Key focus areas
Empower women
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Empower women
Increase incomes
Engaging Women in Entrepreneurial Farming Businesses
This booklet is one of a series of seven focusing on the key components of the five-year Improving Smallholder Livelihoods through Climate-Smart Agricultural Economic Development project. Funded by Irish Aid, and implemented by a consortium of SOS Sahel Ethiopia, Self Help Africa, Vita and Farm Africa, the project aimed to alleviate poverty and build resilient, sustainable livelihoods in Ethiopia’s SNNP and Oromia regions.
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Empower women
Increase incomes
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Empower women
Increase access to finance
Market approaches to resilience 2015-2019 factsheet
Factsheet on the Market approaches to resilience (MAR) project from 2015 to 2019. The project was part of the BRACED programme in Ethiopia’s lowland regions and tested market-based approaches to improving resilience of vulnerable populations.
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Empower women
Increase access to finance
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Empower women
Increase food security and nutrition
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Empower women
Increase food security and nutrition
Sustainable agriculture for improved food security in Tigray, Ethiopia. Part four: Goat and sheep rearing.
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Empower women
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
Sustainable agriculture for improved food security in Tigray, Ethiopia. Part four: Goat and sheep rearing.
Sheep and goats are valuable assets that can be a powerful springboard for income diversification and further asset accumulation for female-headed households.
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Empower women
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
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DR Congo
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Boost productivity
Boost youth employment
Connect farmers to markets
Empower women
Increase access to finance
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
Protect ecosystems
Strengthen food systems
Support businesses
Farm Africa strategic plan 2016-2020
Farm Africa is a leading NGO specialising in growing agriculture, protecting the environment and developing businesses in rural Africa. Our strategic plan for the years 2016-2020 outlines our ambitious plan to grow and unlock the potential of agriculture to transform rural Africa.
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DR Congo
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Boost productivity
Boost youth employment
Connect farmers to markets
Empower women
Increase access to finance
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
Protect ecosystems
Strengthen food systems
Support businesses