Our programmes

The Youth empowerment project (YEP) aims to improve employment opportunities and income for 500 young people in southwestern Uganda by increasing productivity along the coffee, honey, poultry and horticulture value chains.

We’re fuelling productivity by setting up value addition and business incubation centres through Youth Innovation Hubs Africa to help young people launch business ventures along these value chains.

To ensure these young entrepreneurs receive the support they need to become self-sustaining, we’re also training 50 women and young people to become self-employed local business agents who can offer technical advice on selected enterprises, run training workshops and help facilitate access to supplies, land and technology.

Farm Africa worked with pastoralist women living in South Omo and Karamoja in Ethiopia and Uganda, supporting them to set up sustainable, small-scale goat-rearing enterprises to help them generate an income and provide their families with a more nutritious diet.

We established Women’s Livestock Groups, through which we provided training in goat rearing and fodder and rangeland management.

We improved women’s access to livestock by setting up a revolving goat scheme, which required each woman who received two goats from Farm Africa to give two does (female goats) to another vulnerable woman once her herd had grown, creating a cycle of improved prosperity.

Working in partnership with Soroti Sweet Potato Producers Association (SOSPPA) and farmers previously trained by Harvest Plus, this project ensured a consistent supply of orange-fleshed sweet potatoes to help fight the effects of vitamin A deficiency.

This project helped western Uganda upgrade its coffee value chain with a focus on delivering increased volumes of sustainably produced, quality Arabica coffee to premium export markets and including smallholder farmers in the value chain.

Farm Africa worked with the Ugandan coffee processor and exporter, UGACOF, to reduce losses during production, harvest and post-harvest handling; expand marketing opportunities for smallholder farmers and help them diversify into higher value export markets.

The project helped farmers deliver a consistent supply of quality coffee cherries to UGACOF who marketed the produce to European Union, and African, Caribbean and Pacific roasters.

Working with 17,000 farmers and selling 44% of all exported Uganda chillies in 2017, Northeast Chilli Producers Association (NECPA) is a key player in the chilli industry. Farm Africa helped NECPA adopt a more market-orientated business model, which opened up new export opportunities to chilli farmers. This involved helping chilli growers gain access to quality seeds and equipment, increase their yields and meet international buyers’ quality standards.