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Maximizing Production for Coffee Farmers with Lime and Fertilizer – One Acre...
One Acre Fund established a coffee trial with 100 farmers in Nyamasheke district in 2010. In addition to receiving lime and fertilizer, farmers were trained on correct application and best practices in...
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Nat Robinson: Start-ups Transforming Smallholder Farmers’ Lives in Kenya
In this guest post, Nat Robinson, Chief Executive Officer of Juhudi Kilimo highlights three innovative Kenyan start-ups, from solar pumps to credit companies that are helping to change the lives of...
View ArticleVideo: Kickstarting Inclusive Agribusiness in Malawi
Farming First TV interviewed Keith Polo, Managing Director of Tukula Farming Company, and Country Director at the Clinton Development Initiative, to find out more about the process that agribusinesses...
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Julian Wolfson: The iDEal Way to Expand Drip Irrigation
In this guest post, the Chief Executive of iDE Europe details how technical assistance through a social enterprise is ensuring that drip irrigation is successful. Without the right knowledge or...
View ArticleLawrence Biyika Songa: The Cost of Climate Change for Ugandan Farmers
Q&A with Lawrence Biyika Songa, COP representative for Uganda At the COP22 conference on climate change, held in Marrakech in November, the spotlight fell squarely on Africa and the impact of...
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Bernard Giraud: Building Functional Forests that Help Indian Tribes Thrive
In this guest post, the President and Co-Founder of the Livelihoods Venture Bernard Giraud describes how restoring forests with the Adivasi tribes in India has helped tackle issues from poverty to...
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Yvette Ondachi: Helping Women Play A Pivotal Role in the Food Value Chain
Yvette Ondachi is the founder of Ojay Greene, a Kenyan agribusiness that connects rural farmers to urban markets. Ahead of International Women’s Day, she shares stories of the female farmers she works...
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Alexis Ellicott: Bringing Gender Parity to the Agricultural Inputs Sector
In this guest blog post, Alexis Ellicott, CNFA Chief of Party on the USAID/Agro-Inputs Project tells Farming First how women are being empowered to enter into the male-dominated sector. Women produce...
View ArticleTo End Hidden Hunger, Partnerships Across Sectors for Biofortification are Key
By Maggie Kamau-Biruri, Head of Partnerships at HarvestPlus. After more than a decade of steady decline, world hunger is again on the rise, according to a 2017 report from the UN’s Food and...
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Agroecology in Action: Forest-Friendly Farming in Ethiopia
On the International Day of Forests, Nicolas Mounard, CEO of Farm Africa, urges action to rescue the ailing voluntary carbon market that forest communities in Ethiopia are counting on. Building...
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