In Burkina Faso, farmer and mother Limata boosted her yields by producing her own compost, a natural fertilizer for her tired land.
Read MoreGates grant boost for West African work
A grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will support research and promotion of vital cereal crops for farmers in West Africa’s Sahel.
Read MoreOrganic benefit for pineapple producers
Pineapple growers in Uganda are being supported to go organic, so that they will earn more from the sale of the fruit that they are growing.
Read MoreFarm support for HIV group in Kenya
Peter Mugo has received support from Self Help Africa with the establishment of a bountiful backyard garden at his home in Naivasha, Kenya. Peter is amongst more than 3,700 households affected by HIV/AIDS to be supported under the US AID backed programme.
Read MoreDiageo’s business boost for Ethiopian farmers
New Diageo deal in Ethiopia will boost the incomes of small-holder farming families.
Read MoreIncomes success in Zambian project
Irish Aid backed project in Northern Zambia is improving the living conditions of local families, a mid-term study has shown.
Read MoreAgeing farm population a challenge in Africa
Africa’s farming population is aging, which is creating a significant obstacle to increasing food production in the region, two farmers association representatives told a World Food Day conference in Dublin.
Read MoreNew crops give farmer new future
The harsh realities of life in rural Africa cause many to grow up too quickly; this was the case for Zambian Sydney Kalota, who lost both parents in quick succession as a teenager. Left without any relatives close by to support him. Left alone, he did the only thing he knew to survive, he began to farm.
Read MoreMalawi farmer’s training scholarship
A community-based farm adviser in Malawi is amongst a group of small-scale African farmers to travel recently on a scholarship to attend one of the UK’s leading agricultural training colleges.
Read MoreFarming for the family
Scovia and Gastone Ndisasirwa are amongst thousands of Ugandans whose lives are being transformed by a scheme supporting the development of fruit and vegetable gardens as a means of improving household nutrition.
Young parents of two girls, their garden now looks as if it could stock a supermarket vegetable counter – with cabbage, amaranthus, papaya and tomato growing alongside pumpkin and other produce.
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