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Reviving the Kenyan Cotton Industry

Self Help Africa2021Agriculture & Nutrition, Cooperatives, Enterprise Development, Featured, Kenya, News

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.

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2.2m People Reached

Self Help Africa2019Cooperatives, Enterprise Development, Featured, Kenya, News, West Africa

Annual Report

Self Help Africa worked with approximately 2.2 million people across 33 development projects in 2018, its annual meeting heard last week. The organisation’s largest project was in Kenya, where more than €24m was being invested over a five-year period in strengthening agri-business and creating new markets for 100,000 small-scale farmers. … Read More

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Community Saves Together

Self Help Africa2019Agriculture & Nutrition, Cooperatives, Enterprise Development, News, Uganda

Flavia saves with local Self Help Africa supported savings group

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‘BETTER’ school for Merinda

Self Help Africa2019Agriculture & Nutrition, Cooperatives, Development Education, Malawi, News

Merinda

Merinda receives farming education through EU funded BETTER project at local ‘field school’ in Malawi

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A BETTER life for Alice

Self Help Africa2019Case Studies, Cooperatives, Enterprise Development, Featured, Malawi, News

Since joining a village savings and loans group (VSLA), Alice used a small loan to build a piggery and buy a breeding sow that soon provided her with five piglets that she could fatten and sell.

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Seed security and success in Ethiopia for Sisay and Kelemua

Self Help Africa2019Case Studies, Climate Change, Cooperatives, Ethiopia, News

Sisay and Kelemeu with their farm equipment

Change happened for Sisay and Kelemeu when they joined 6,000 farmers in Wirtu Boset farmers cooperative, and began working with Self Help Africa to make good quality grain seed available to cereal growers across the region.

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Cassava farmer finds better market

Self Help Africa2018Cooperatives, Featured, Kenya, News

Beatrice, cassava farmer in Kenya, increased her yields and found a better market for her produce after Self Help Africa linked her with a local cooperative.

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Cooperative gives mother new-found confidence

Self Help Africa2018Cooperatives, Ethiopia, Featured, Microfinance, News

In Ethiopia, Kokebe Ababa says joining her local savings and credits cooperative boosted her confidence and transformed her life.

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Kenya farmers increase cassava yields and income

Self Help Africa2018Cooperatives, Kenya, News

In Kenya, hundreds of farmers groups are seeing an increase in both yields and incomes from the production and sale of cassava

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Future blooming brighter for Loveness

Self Help Africa2017Cooperatives, News, Zambia

The Deputy Director of Zambia’s Ministry of Agriculture paid tribute to Self Help Africa for leading the way in improving access to quality seed for farmers in the country.

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2023

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