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Maize production training manual
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.
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Uganda
Key focus areas
Boost productivity
Increase food security and nutrition
Protect ecosystems
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Uganda
Key focus areas
Boost productivity
Increase food security and nutrition
Protect ecosystems
Rice production training manual
This is a revised “Rice Cultivation Handbook” for both upland and lowland rice cultivation techniques that will be used by Farm Africa Village-based Advisors to help improve rice crop management in Uganda. This version contains more photos to help farmers comprehend better rice cultivation techniques. The revised version also contains additions such as “Farm record keeping” to assist farmers in managing their production costs and enhancing their income.
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Uganda
Key focus areas
Boost productivity
Increase food security and nutrition
Protect ecosystems
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Uganda
Key focus areas
Boost productivity
Increase food security and nutrition
Protect ecosystems
Beans production training manual
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.
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Uganda
Key focus areas
Boost productivity
Increase food security and nutrition
Protect ecosystems
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Kenya
Key focus areas
Boost youth employment
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
Impact stories from the YISA programme: 2025 Quarter Three
A collection of stories from June to August 2025 from the Youth in Sustainable Aquaculture, a partnership programme in Kenya with the Mastercard Foundation and consortium partners led by Farm Africa that aims to strengthen resilient livelihoods through innovative aquaculture practices, enabling work opportunities for young women and men.
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Kenya
Key focus areas
Boost youth employment
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
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Uganda
Key focus areas
Empower women
Increase food security and nutrition
Seeds of change: Focus on Karamoja
A collection of impact stories from Farm Africa’s work to boost food security and nutrition in Uganda.
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Uganda
Key focus areas
Empower women
Increase food security and nutrition
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Regional
Key focus areas
Boost youth employment
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
Forty years of impact
To mark Farm Africa’s 40th year, past and present Farm Africa project participants share stories of the impact the charity has had on their lives.
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Regional
Key focus areas
Boost youth employment
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
Reviving nature’s symphony: the triumph of participatory rangeland management in transforming a degraded landscape
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Increase food security and nutrition
Protect ecosystems
Reviving nature’s symphony: the triumph of participatory rangeland management in transforming a degraded landscape
This case story describes the success achieved by a community rangeland management cooperative in restoring degraded grasslands at Ethiopia’s Abijatta-Shalla National Park in the Great Rift Valley. The rapid transformation showcases what can be achieved by combining innovative techniques, collaborative effort and community engagement.
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Increase food security and nutrition
Protect ecosystems
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Connect farmers to markets
Increase food security and nutrition
Strengthen food systems
Strengthening agricultural market systems
A summary report of Farm Africa’s market systems project in Amhara, Ethiopia, which aimed to improve food security and livelihoods of small-scale farmers by making market systems more inclusive. This project was part of the Growth for the future project, funded by Sida.
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Connect farmers to markets
Increase food security and nutrition
Strengthen food systems
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Increase food security and nutrition
Urban agriculture in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
In 2022 Farm Africa worked with Ethiopia’s Ministry of Planning and Development (MoPD) to implement a 15-month urban agriculture pilot project in the city. The project aimed to:
· improve incomes, nutrition and food security for 100 low-income households by training them in urban agriculture
· create a learning hub for the sharing of urban agriculture techniques
· promote urban beautification and environmental protection.
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Increase food security and nutrition
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
Protect ecosystems
Nature-based Solutions factsheet
A four-page summary of Farm Africa’s Nature-based Solutions for Sustainable and Inclusive Development programme in Ethiopia, funded by Sida. The programme, which runs from 2023 to 2026, aims to sustainably manage forests, conserve biodiversity, build communities’ resilience to climate change and develop sustainable livelihoods through holistic nature-based solutions across six river basins in Ethiopia, clustered into three eco-regions.
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
Protect ecosystems
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Kenya
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Boost productivity
Increase food security and nutrition
Regenerative agriculture factsheet
A comprehensive overview of Farm Africa’s Regenerative Agriculture project in Embu and Tharaka-Nithi counties in Kenya, funded by the IKEA Foundation through AGRA.
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Kenya
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Boost productivity
Increase food security and nutrition
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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
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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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
Key focus areas
Empower women
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
Regenerating our Soils – Cases and Success Stories from the Regenerative Agriculture project in Kenya
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Kenya
Key focus areas
Boost productivity
Increase food security and nutrition
Protect ecosystems
Regenerating our Soils – Cases and Success Stories from the Regenerative Agriculture project in Kenya
This booklet tells the stories of farmers involved in AGRA’s “Regenerative agriculture through the development of the pulses value chain” pilot project, which ran from July 2020 to October 2021, AGRA, with funding from IKEA Foundation, and in partnership with Farm Africa and Cereal Growers Association (CGA) in Embu and Makueni Counties of Kenya.
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Kenya
Key focus areas
Boost productivity
Increase food security and nutrition
Protect ecosystems
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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
Increase food security and nutrition
Improved goat breeds
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
Increase food security and nutrition
Country
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.
Download (860.17kb)
Country
Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Empower women
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes