This year’s theme International Youth Day theme is particularly relevant; “Transforming Food Systems: Youth Innovation for Human and Planetary Health.”
Read MoreCovid Fund Protects Agri-Business Jobs and Markets
A Kenyan horticultural company that lost much of its export business to Europe during the pandemic, is ‘reinventing itself’ to protect jobs and markets for smallholder farmers.
Read MoreNational Cassava Conference in Kenya
Promoting the benefits of cassava as a food crop is the focus for an upcoming five-day conference and trade fair, taking place in Nairobi
Read MoreManure the Magic Ingredient For Malawi Farmers
A simple solution has increased crop health and lead to better yields for the farmers of Tigwirizane Farmer Field School (TFFS) in Malawi. The magic ingredient? Manure.
Read MoreReviving the Kenyan Cotton Industry
A once thriving local industry that collapsed in the face of cheaper alternatives from the West and the Far East is experiencing a revival in Kenya, and thousands of farming households in Western Kenya are reaping the dividend.
Read MoreAgriFI – Creating Jobs and Developing Markets
Investment of more than €6m has been awarded in match-funding to 12 Kenyan agri-businesses, in a programme to strengthen markets and create farming jobs.
Read MoreGrace’s Recipe For Farming Success
Celebrate International Soil Day – our food depends on it!
Read MoreWorld Food Day 2020: Grow, Nourish, Sustain, Together.
World Food Day 2020 will be celebrated on Friday, 16 October, with the theme Grow, Nourish, Sustain, Together – thanking farmers and food system workers.
Read MoreProjects supported 275,000 families
Self Help Africa’s annual report showed that the organisation reached 2.5 million people and worked directly with 275,000 households, in 2019.
Read MoreA journey to self-reliance for Lilian
There has been a four-fold increase in the number of households in Burkina Faso who are coping with the effects of extreme weather conditions.
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