Prolonged drought and erratic rain in southern Malawi had taken their toll on 43-year-old farmer Modester. With an acre of maize harvesting barely enough food for three months, her grown up children had been forced to leave to find work in the city – leaving Modester as primary carer for her … Read More
Read MorePositive Impact in Effort to Combat Global Hunger
UN report removes three Self Help Africa programme countries from its list of global hunger hotspots.
Read MoreTackling Malnutrition in Malawi through Biofortified Food
Self Help Africa’s FOCUS Project is allowing communities in Malawi to battle widespread undernutrition. The EU funded project, short for Fortifying for our Communities Under-Nutrition Status, aims to deliver biofortified food to nearly 40,000 people across four districts, Thyolo, Balaka, Dedza and Mulanje.
Read MoreProject Supports 6,500 Women Cashew Growers
New project in will support women to increase production and processing of cashew nuts in Burkina Faso
Read MoreHow Gum Arabic is Transforming Lives in Northern Kenya
Gum Arabic is one of those wonder ingredients with a host of different uses.
Collected by ‘tapping’ holes into the trunk of acacia trees that grow wild on Africa’s plains, the harvested gum is a food additive and stabiliser that’s used in sweets, confectionary and soft drinks, and it’s a component that is also used in printing, paint, glue and cosmetics.
CEO Pays Tribute to Founder of Self Help Africa
One of the founders of Self Help Africa Dr. Noel McDonagh has died.
Read MoreHow Pacific warming is affecting Africa’s weather
Countries in southern Africa have endured both severe and destructive tropical storms, extreme flooding and successive years of drought in recent times. Scientists link these events to a climatic phenomenon happening thousands of miles away in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, with a warming of sea surface temperature and changes to … Read More
Read MoreHydroponics Boosts Yields for Kenyan Farmers
In Kenya, access to land, water, seed and fertiliser are just some of the obstacles faced by farmers in their efforts to grow food. A recently concluded year-long pilot project in Isiolo County introduced 80 farmers to an innovative farm science that is supporting them to grow vegetables commercially for … Read More
Read MoreOrganic soil enhancers drive harvest gains in Burkina Faso
Spreading charcoal that’s made from crop waste has improved soil quality and increased harvests on a pilot project with farming communities in south western Burkina Faso, a research project has found. The research was conducted as part of SustInAfrica, an innovative EU-funded Horizon2020 project that has brought together universities, farming … Read More
Read MoreCrop Insurance Protects Families from Climate Impact
More than 47,000 Ethiopian farming families took out insurance to protect them from potential crop failure caused by climate change. The insurance cover paid out a total of 35 million Ethiopian Birr (approx. €250k) in compensation to farmers affected by drought and other adverse weather events, data from the project … Read More
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