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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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Rural Ethiopian women diversify livelihoods and boost entire communities’ climate resilience
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Ethiopia
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Rural Ethiopian women diversify livelihoods and boost entire communities’ climate resilience
This Climate & Development Knowledge Network booklet explores how Farm Africa’s Market Approaches to Resilience (MAR) project extended credit and savings facilities to communities in remote rural areas of Ethiopia, providing them with the means to diversify their assets and livelihoods. This helped to buffer them from climate-related stresses and shocks.
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Ethiopia
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Ethiopia
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Mango Value Chain Development
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
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Ethiopia
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Act on climate change
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Promoting climate-smart agriculture through revitalising Farmer Training Centres
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
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Ethiopia
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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
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Act on climate change
Empower women
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Ethiopia
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Act on climate change
Boost productivity
Increase incomes
Ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change
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
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Ethiopia
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Act on climate change
Boost productivity
Increase incomes
Cooperative-based seed multiplication systems
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
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Act on climate change
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Ethiopia
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Act on climate change
Boost productivity
Increase incomes
Small-scale irrigation
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
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Ethiopia
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Producing and marketing forest products: success stories
Poverty drives deforestation in Ethiopia’s Benishangul Gumuz Region. Farm Africa is supporting forest users to sustainably profit from forests’ resources. This publication presents stories that look at how people and forests can thrive together.
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Ethiopia
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Kenya
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Boost youth employment
Increase food security and nutrition
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Aquaculture for jobs, incomes and food security
The cost of producing fish in Kenya exceeds the wholesale price of imported fish, making Kenyan fish farmers uncompetitive. This policy brief outlines Farm Africa’s recommendations for the support needed to make the Kenyan aquaculture sector thrive and create jobs, increase incomes and bolster national food security.
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Kenya
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Ethiopia
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Increase incomes
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Building and unleashing community power
This booklet presents a series of case studies from the UK aid-funded Market Approaches to Resilience project, which aimed to reduce the vulnerability of agro-pastoralists and protect the environment in Ethiopia’s Afar, Somali and SNNP regional states.
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Ethiopia
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DR Congo
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Support businesses
An overview of Farm Africa’s approach to business
Farm Africa supports the development of enterprises that connect farmers to markets. By linking farmers and agribusinesses to consumer demand, improving the flow of working and investment capital into the sector and strengthening the businesses that supply farmers with commercial services, Farm Africa is helping turn African agriculture into a profitable sector that lifts people out of poverty.
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DR Congo
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Reducing deforestation and emissions in Bale – What’s the incentive for local communities?
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Ethiopia
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Reducing deforestation and emissions in Bale – What’s the incentive for local communities?
This report presents evidence of how 12,496 hectares of forest in the Bale Eco-region were saved between 2012 and 2015 following the establishment of a REDD+ initiative. The reduced deforestation stopped 5.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere.
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Ethiopia
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DR Congo
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Farm Africa’s approach to trade
A summary of Farm Africa’s approach to helping smallholder produce what the market needs and getting better prices for their produce.
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DR Congo
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DR Congo
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Farm Africa’s approach to participatory forest management
Farm Africa’s approach to forming formalised forest management agreements between local communities and governments that simultaneously promote resource management and enterprise development.
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DR Congo
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Sustainable agriculture for improved food security in Tigray, Ethiopia. Part two: Fruit and vegetable production.
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Ethiopia
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Sustainable agriculture for improved food security in Tigray, Ethiopia. Part two: Fruit and vegetable production.
Increased access to water has enabled farmers to grow a variety of fruits and vegetables at higher profit margins and with higher nutritional value.
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Ethiopia
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Sustainable agriculture for improved food security in Tigray, Ethiopia. Part three: Poultry production.
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Ethiopia
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Increase food security and nutrition
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Sustainable agriculture for improved food security in Tigray, Ethiopia. Part three: Poultry production.
Poultry rearing can be a useful way to generate regular revenue for poor households with limited access to land and labour.
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Ethiopia
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