Ethiopian seed producers vital to efforts of Self Help Africa to support food production in face of El Nino drought
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 MoreClimate deal is good news for Africa
An historic global deal on climate change is critical for the countries of sub-Saharan Africa in the months and years to come – and we must all play our part.
Read More‘COP-ing on’ to climate change
Festival goers gave world leaders a message to “COP on” to climate change, when they took part in our video project at this year’s Electric Picnic.
Read More‘Ahead of the game’ on Sustainable Development Goals
Self Help Africa is ‘ahead of the game’ in its focus on smallholder farmers and promoting a ‘climate smart’ approach to agriculture, according to one of leading facilitators of the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Read MoreBeekeeping the Way Forward for Sawatogo Aminato
Mother of five Sawatogo Aminato believes that beekeeping is her future.‘I have a small farm with my husband, but the climate here is difficult and it is hard for us to produce enough food,’ says the 40-year-old woman from Nioniopalga, one of ten villages where the Wend Yam Beekeeping Federation … Read More
Read MoreUN group backs climate work
;A Self Help Africa (SHA) project that supports rural communities in Ethiopia to cope with the effects of changing climate has received the approval of a national forum convened under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
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