We work with different types of farmers in a range of regions. Their local situations vary, but the problems they face are all too familiar: lack of training and technology, inadequate inputs, no finance, vulnerability to climate change and poor links to markets.
We have an ambitious strategy to expand our work over the next five years. We’ll increase our impact. Lift more communities out of poverty. Work with more corporate partners who share our vision. Open up more agricultural markets. Provide more expertise.
We’ll make change happen.
Farm Africa will support one million smallholder farmers and agro-pastoralists per year to increase their productivity, household incomes and resilience to shocks. We will boost livelihoods in a number of core value chains such as coffee, aquaculture, oilseeds and livestock, and increase farmers’ participation in market systems, while exploring regenerative agricultural principles and nature-based solutions that promote responsible environmental stewardship.
We will support at least 200 farmer groups, cooperatives and small and growing businesses (SGBs) to grow sustainably and support 12 private sector lead firms to transition to sustainable supply chains.
Farm Africa will implement integrated landscape management projects in all countries of operation, supporting the sustainable management of 12 priority landscapes, including forests, rangelands and coastal ecosystems. We will pursue payment for ecosystem services schemes, including carbon sequestration and REDD+ projects.
These three thematic pillars will be underpinned by five cross-cutting themes:
The concept of food systems - describing the connections between producers, consumers, the environment and policy - provides a useful way of integrating the approaches and is the lens through which our approaches, interventions and programmes are analysed.