07 July 2018
Today marks the International Day of Cooperatives. Farm Africa’s FoodTrade project, funded by UK aid from the UK government, encapsulates the importance of this year’s theme, “sustainable consumption and production”. The project showcases how cooperatives can help their members farm and sell smarter in order to boost their profits and protect the environment.
06 July 2018
Increasing the size of fingerlings (young fish) stocked reduces fish farmers’ production cycles and input costs, which improves farmers’ productivity and profits, a new study by Farm Africa and WorldFish reveals.
03 July 2018
Farm Africa has been awarded a grant from UK Aid Direct, the Department for International Development (DFID) fund supporting civil society organisations to achieve sustained poverty reduction.
21 June 2018
Rachael used to harbour serious doubts about growing groundnuts. With support from Farm Africa, Rachael decided to shelve her doubts and start growing the crop. Since she made the change Rachael’s business has gone from strength to strength.
13 June 2018
On Sunday 17 June, three of the world’s best chefs, Joan Roca, Eneko Atxa and Gaggan Anand, will join forces with Nicolas Mounard, Chief Executive of Farm Africa, to launch Chefs for Change, a movement that bridges the gap between two very different worlds: high-end cuisine and international development.
To yield the increased food security the world’s growing population so desperately needs in the face of climate change, it’s vital that support is focused on smallholder farmers, the people producing the majority of the food in the developing world, writes Farm Africa Chief Executive Dan Collison.
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