A Self Help Africa ‘demonstration farm’ is helping the next generation of farmers in The Gambia successfully grow more organic fruit and vegetables to eat and sell. Traditionally, The Gambia has relied heavily on imported fruit and vegetables to stock markets and dinner plates – limiting farmers’ earning potential and … Read More
Read MoreKenya agri-business call gets huge response
Close to 200 agri-businesses responded to the first funding call issued by a new project seeking to create profitable new markets for over 100,000 rural poor farming families in Kenya.
Read MoreTruTrade receives innovation award
Self Help Africa’s inventive new farmers trading platform TruTrade has been presented with a prestigious award for innovation.
Read MoreTruTrade boosting incomes for rural African farmers
As a TruTrade agent, Agnes Mutisya links farmers to markets and allows them to get a better price for their produce, increasing incomes and financial security.
Read MoreKenya farmers increase cassava yields and income
In Kenya, hundreds of farmers groups are seeing an increase in both yields and incomes from the production and sale of cassava
Read More12 faces that embody the success of 2016
12 months, 12 faces, 12 stories. As 2016 draws to a close we’d like to share with you the successful stories of 12 amazing people whose own hard work is changing their lives and their families’ in Africa. The pictures and stories below celebrate the hard work of these farmers as … Read More
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