With seeds, training and access to a vegetable storehouse, Binta has overcome some difficult times and is now providing for her family better than before.
Read MoreWater boost for Togo households
More than 32,000 people in Togo, West Africa, are to benefit from a major new EU backed water and sanitation project in the region.
Read MoreCompost revives farmer’s tired land
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 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 MoreVillagers rice business boost
For the women of Tonte village in the savannahs of Northern Togo, rice has become an important part of life. Rice first became commonplace in the regional when the UN distributed emergency rice rations during a series of food crises in the early years of the new millennium.
Read More‘African tofu’ boosts farmers’ income
Trained in group organisation 13 women in rural Togo have banded together to process soya and have tripled the amount they can make from the crop in the process.
Read MoreWidow supports grandchildren on small farm
Widowed grandmother Annemarie supports her grandchildren from her small farm. Climate change has seen life change for farmers in her village in Togo. The rain has become less reliant and the villagers have had to adapt their farming to optimise every last drop of water.
Read MoreRice business boosts income for Togo women
Sanwogou Lalle lives in Tonte village in the remote and poor far north of Togo in West Africa. A rice processor and a member of a women’s enterprise group supported by Self Help Africa, Sanwogou and 18 of her neighbours have banded together to improve their chances of earning a better income.
Read MoreMarket Gardening in Burkina Faso
Villagers in Dassui are so pleased with the market gardening project that they started in early 2009, that they already want to extend the project, and bring more of their neighbours into the scheme. 41 villagers are members of the ‘Wenden Kondo’ (‘God Will Provide) group, and have produced harvests … Read More
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