Our programmes

Market demand for sorghum is rising but smallholder farmers lack the yields, equipment and systems to tap into demand. Farm Africa supported smallholder farmers to adopt new techniques that boost yields, build resilience to extreme weather and protect the environment.

Together, Farm Africa and UN Women worked to close the gender gap in the sunflower sector. UN Women teamed up with local government to ensure Agricultural Marketing Cooperatives (AMCOs) in Tanzania’s Ikungi district increased their female membership. In particular, Farm Africa helped female members in three of the AMCOs to boost their productivity and meet the growing demand for sunflower oil.

Many women are currently excluded from participating in and benefitting from the sector, being held back by poor production practices, and lack of access to markets and cooperatives.

The four-year Kenya Market-led Aquaculture Programme (KMAP), which was implemented by Farm Africa alongside a consortium of five supporting partners, worked directly with farmers, aquaculture inputs suppliers and traders to improve production, strengthen market systems and the policy environment. The project focused on strengthening fish farmers’ links to high-quality, affordable input suppliers and improving fish farmers’ market orientation and profitability.

We provided technical and business training to 1,114 medium and large-scale fish farmers, hatcheries and fish feed producers in West and Central Kenya. Fish farmers formed farmer groups for consistent production and supply of fish to the market to help the industry thrive. We also supported private sector participation in creating an enabling policy environment for aquaculture development.

The project contributed to the removal of the 5% fisheries levy on imported feeds. We successfully lobbied for the enactment of a bill that introduced an aquaculture inputs (feeds and fingerlings) cost sharing system between fish farmers and the county government of Kakamega to boost aquaculture production in the county.