15 October 2011

Farm Africa has launched a three month emergency project in Moyale, northern Kenya, where we are working with pastoralist communities hit hard by the recent drought. Farm Africa is providing hay and fodder for around 5,000 starving animals, trucking in water and rehabilitating existing water sources. 

14 October 2011

Global food prices have risen steeply in the last year. Volatility in food prices is a major driver of food insecurity and hunger and is plunging tens of millions of people into hunger and poverty.

14 October 2011

The UK Food Sector team which recently climbed Mt Kilimanjaro has raised one quarter of a million pounds. The total is way in excess of what was expected and demonstrates the UK Food Sector's strong support for Farm Africa and its work with African smallholder farmers.

14 October 2011

Three brothers are donating profits from sales of apple juice made on their parents' Oxfordshire farm to Farm Africa. The brothers were motivated to support Farm Africa after a friend of their parents recently took part in the Mt Kilimanjaro Climb for Africa.

02 September 2011

Farm Africa’s Aqua Shops Project has made impressive progress since its first six Aqua Shops were opened earlier this year. We have trained a further 72 farmers in fish-farming in recent months, and a total of 544 since the project began.