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DR Congo
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An overview of Farm Africa’s approach to agriculture
Reducing poverty in rural Africa depends on making agriculture work better. Farm Africa’s approach to improving agricultural production focuses on helping farmers harness the power of technological advances, pioneering the use of climate-smart agriculture and better managing the natural resources farmers rely upon.
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DR Congo
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Boost productivity
Increase food security and nutrition
Protect ecosystems
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DR Congo
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Protect ecosystems
An overview of Farm Africa’s approach to the environment
The preservation of natural resources is critical to poverty reduction, global food security and climate change mitigation. Farm Africa promotes environmental activities that that bring farmers, governments and other stakeholders together to earn an income from and protect the environment.
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DR Congo
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Protect ecosystems
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DR Congo
Key focus areas
Increase access to finance
Increase incomes
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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Increase access to finance
Increase incomes
Support businesses
Reducing deforestation and emissions in Bale – What’s the incentive for local communities?
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Ethiopia
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Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
Protect ecosystems
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
Key focus areas
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
Protect ecosystems
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DR Congo
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Increase food security and nutrition
Protect ecosystems
Farm Africa’s approach to participatory rangeland management
Farm Africa’s approach to helping pastoralist and agro-pastoralist communities build economically, socially and environmentally sustainable rangeland management systems.
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DR Congo
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Increase food security and nutrition
Protect ecosystems
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DR Congo
Key focus areas
Increase incomes
Protect ecosystems
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
Key focus areas
Increase incomes
Protect ecosystems
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DR Congo
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Increase food security and nutrition
Protect ecosystems
Farm Africa’s approach to integrated landscape management
A summary of Farm Africa’s approach to the holistic management of rural landscapes, so that gains from development in one region are not cancelled out by losses in another.
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DR Congo
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Increase food security and nutrition
Protect ecosystems
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DR Congo
Key focus areas
Connect farmers to markets
Increase incomes
Support businesses
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
Key focus areas
Connect farmers to markets
Increase incomes
Support businesses
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DR Congo
Key focus areas
Increase access to finance
Farm Africa’s approach to finance
A summary of Farm Africa’s approach to setting up access to finance schemes that improve the flow of cash to and through smallholder value chains.
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DR Congo
Key focus areas
Increase access to finance
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DR Congo
Key focus areas
Increase access to finance
Farm Africa’s approach to business development
A summary of Farm Africa’s approach to building the capacity of agribusinesses that provide inputs to smallholders or buy their produce, or both.
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DR Congo
Key focus areas
Increase access to finance
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DR Congo
Key focus areas
Boost productivity
Farm Africa’s approach to technology
A summary of Farm Africa’s approach to developing, adapting and promoting technological innovations that enhance smallholder farmers’ land and labour productivity.
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DR Congo
Key focus areas
Boost productivity
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DR Congo
Key focus areas
Protect ecosystems
Farm Africa’s approach to land, water and environment
A summary of Farm Africa’s approach to increasing the sustainability of smallholder and agribusiness production, with a focus on conservation of essential biodiversity, woodlots and watersheds.
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DR Congo
Key focus areas
Protect ecosystems
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DR Congo
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Boost productivity
Protect ecosystems
Farm Africa’s approach to climate-smart agriculture
A summary of Farm Africa’s approach to building the resilience of smallholder farmers to climate shocks and trends and minimising their contribution to greenhouse gas emissions.
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DR Congo
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Boost productivity
Protect ecosystems
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Boost productivity
Connect farmers to markets
Protect ecosystems
Marketing Bale’s wild coffee
Factsheet on Farm Africa’s Marketing Bale’s wild coffee project. The project helped wild coffee farmers in Ethiopia’s Bale Eco-region develop production, processing and trading systems that enabled them to sell to speciality coffee markets.
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Boost productivity
Connect farmers to markets
Protect ecosystems
Sustainable agriculture for improved food security in Tigray, Ethiopia. Tales from Tigray.
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Ethiopia
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Increase food security and nutrition
Sustainable agriculture for improved food security in Tigray, Ethiopia. Tales from Tigray.
Series of stories from Farm Africa’s Sustainable Agriculture for Improved Food Security project.
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Ethiopia
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Increase food security and nutrition
Sustainable agriculture for improved food security in Tigray, Ethiopia. Part six: Small-scale irrigation.
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Increase food security and nutrition
Sustainable agriculture for improved food security in Tigray, Ethiopia. Part six: Small-scale irrigation.
Small-scale irrigation includes a wide range of techniques and approaches that supply water to land with the aim of improving soil-water management.
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Increase food security and nutrition
Sustainable agriculture for improved food security in Tigray, Ethiopia. Part five: Honey production and marketing.
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
Sustainable agriculture for improved food security in Tigray, Ethiopia. Part five: Honey production and marketing.
Ethiopia is the largest honey producer in sub-Saharan Africa, producing on average 45,000 metric tonnes (MT) of raw honey annually.
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
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
