Kenyan avocado farmers are celebrating the success of Self Help Africa’s innovative trading initiative, TruTrade, as they’ve seen their incomes growing four-fold in just one year.
Read MoreFunds raised will honour memory of former development worker
Friends and family of Richard Knight, a former development worker, have raised more than £1,000 to fund development projects in Zambia.
Read MoreEast Africa Food Crisis – Response
Self Help Africa is responding in a practical and targeted way to the worst food crisis to hit East Africa in decades.
Read MoreTop prize for work with agricultural cooperatives
Self Help Africa has received a prestigious national award for its work supporting agricultural cooperative development in Ethiopia.
Read MoreFuture shines bright for sunflower producers
Sunflower growers in Eastern Zambia are benefitting from the production of cooking oil from the seed that they produce.
Read MoreDiageo deal will benefit thousands of Ethiopian farm families
Thousands of Ethiopian farmers will benefit under a deal that will see brewing giant Diageo buying their barley in the years to come.
Read MoreIncomes success of Zambian project
Incomes of households in Self Help Africa’s project in Zambia’s Northern Province have improved during the first two years of work in the region.
Read MoreFood crisis warning in Ethiopia
Failure of seasonal rains in Ethiopia has put as many as eight million people at risk of extreme food shortages. But new farming techniques are lessening the impact for many.
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 MoreBeekeeping suits young farming couple
Married as teens, Evalyne (28) and 30-year old Tito have been working side by side on their farm for the past decade. Parents of four young children, supporting the family on a just a small parcel of land in rural Uganda hasn’t always been easy – yet they have managed, together.
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