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Ethiopia
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Enhancing market systems for improved sustainable livelihoods
A summary of the two-year project ‘Enhancing market systems for improved sustainable livelihoods’. The project contributed to food and nutrition security by developing a market system that works for the poor.
By strengthening the market system, developing appropriate financial service products and improving coordination between market actors, farmers were helped to increase their production and productivity.
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Ethiopia
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Boost productivity
Connect farmers to markets
Increase food security and nutrition
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DR Congo
Key focus areas
Increase food security and nutrition
Control methods for Desert Locust
In response to the worst desert locust invasion to hit eastern Africa in decades, Farm Africa has produced a one-page briefing sheet giving information on the lifespan, threat to food security and control measures for those facing infestations of The Desert Locust (Schistocerca gregaria Forskal).
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DR Congo
Key focus areas
Increase food security and nutrition
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DR Congo
Key focus areas
Connect farmers to markets
Protect ecosystems
Strengthen food systems
Virunga National Park Coffees
Farm Africa is working with the Virunga National Park to unleash the potential of two coffee cooperatives and boost the livelihoods of over 7,000 coffee farming families living on the border of Virunga National Park, reducing pressure on the park’s resources and lifting people out of poverty.
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DR Congo
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Connect farmers to markets
Protect ecosystems
Strengthen food systems
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Ethiopia
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Act on climate change
Boost productivity
Protect ecosystems
Promoting fuel-saving stoves
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
Boost productivity
Protect ecosystems
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Boost productivity
Increase incomes
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
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Boost productivity
Increase incomes
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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
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
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Boost productivity
Increase incomes
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Boost productivity
Increase incomes
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
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Boost productivity
Increase incomes
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
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
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Boost productivity
Increase incomes
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
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
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Boost productivity
Increase incomes
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Kenya
Key focus areas
Boost productivity
Strengthen food systems
Support businesses
Kenya Market-led Aquaculture Programme (KMAP) Guide to profitable fish farming 2019
This 16-page guide shares lessons from Farm Africa’s Kenya Market-led Aquaculture Programme, funded by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Kenya, which worked across the fish value chain in 14 counties in Kenya. The project aimed to increase productivity, strengthen market systems and make the policy environment conducive so that farmers can turn their ponds into thriving businesses.
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Kenya
Key focus areas
Boost productivity
Strengthen food systems
Support businesses
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Uganda
Key focus areas
Protect ecosystems
Strengthen food systems
Sustainable coffee production in Kanungu, Uganda
Factsheet on sustainable coffee production in Kanungu, Uganda, which explores how by working in a sustainable way, smallholder farmers can generate good yields of high-quality coffee that fetch a good price for many generations to come. Farm Africa’s coffee project in Kanungu was co-funded by the European Union.
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Uganda
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Protect ecosystems
Strengthen food systems
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Kenya
Key focus areas
Boost youth employment
Connect farmers to markets
Support businesses
Cashew nut and sesame production and marketing factsheet
Factsheet on Farm Africa’s Cashew nut and sesame production and marketing project in Kenya. Farm Africa, together with Ten Senses Africa, trained 15,000 smallholder farmers in Kilifi, Kwale and Lamu in Good Agricultural Practices to revive the dwindling economy by increasing incomes for cashew and sesame farmers, creating employment opportunities for the communities and boosting food security.
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Kenya
Key focus areas
Boost youth employment
Connect farmers to markets
Support businesses
Growth for the future: Climate resilience stories
Ethiopian farmers are amongst those most vulnerable to global warming. Farm Africa is supporting farmers living in southern Ethiopia to build resilience to weather extremes and thrive in a changing climate. This collection of case studies highlight the importance of issues such as access to finance, climate-smart agriculture, high quality inputs, a business approach to farming and community engagement to building climate resilience in rural Ethiopia.
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Ethiopia
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Boost productivity
Increase incomes
Protect ecosystems
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
Key focus areas
Boost productivity
Increase incomes
Protect ecosystems
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2018
Farm Africa Annual Review and Consolidated Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2018.
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Farm Africa Annual Review 2018
Farm Africa’s 2018 Annual Review presents case studies of projects in four countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, which illustrate the breadth of the organisation’s remit and impact.
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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