Launch of our Dfid Project with 10,000 women cocoa farmers in North Kivu.
By Ian Agnew | Posted in Farmer Extension Programme, Latest News, Project News | Also tagged Africa, African farmers, APPG, cocoa, Congo, DFID, DRC, farmers, FRICH, Lorna Young Foundation, LYF, smallholders, Trade not Aid, training | The LYF will be working with Dutch chocolate company, Original Beans, to develop an eco-positive chocolate product with women cocoa farmers from North Kivu to address deforestation.
By Ian Agnew | Posted in Farmer Extension Programme | Also tagged African farmers, capacity building, Chocolate, climate change, cocoa, conflict zone, Congo, Conservation, Deforestation, DFID, DRC, extension services, FRICH, Kivu, Lorna Young Foundation, LYF, Original Beans, smallholders, Trade not Aid, women farmers | By any stretch of the imagination – the SSN has…
By Ian Agnew | Posted in Farmer Extension Programme, Latest News, Project News | Also tagged Africa, African farmers, Ambo, APPG, capacity building, CMS, coffee, coffee trade, comic relief, Coro FM, CRS, Dormans, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lorna Young Foundation, LYF, OCFCU, Oromia Coffee Farmer Cooperative, smallholder, smallholders, trade, tradejustice, training | One of the biggest problems facing poor smallholders in developing…
By Ian Agnew | Posted in Farmer Extension Programme, Project News | Also tagged Africa, African farmers, APPG, capacity building, CMS, coffee, coffee trade, Coro FM, Dormans, Ethiopia, extension services, fair trade, fairtrade, farmer voice radio, Kenya, Lorna Young Foundation, LYF, smallholder, trade justice, Trade not Aid, training | There is a growing debate about the direction that Fair…
By Ian Agnew | Posted in Black Gold Foundation, Latest News | Also tagged African farmers, coffee, coffee trade, fair trade, fairtrade, Lorna Young Foundation, LYF, nestle, starbucks, trade justice, Trade not Aid | The LYF Smallholder Support Network (SSN) in Kenya and Ethiopia…
By Ian Agnew | Posted in Farmer Extension Programme | Also tagged Africa, African farmers, Ambo, coffee, coffee trade, education, Ethiopia, fair trade, Kenya, Lorna Young Foundation, LYF, NTTI, nyeri, OCFCU, Oromia Coffee Farmer Cooperative, Trade not Aid, training | It’s a long time coming but Kenyan coffee farmers may…
By Ian Agnew | Posted in Black Gold Foundation, Farmer Extension Programme | Also tagged Africa, African farmers, Black gold, Blackgold, capacity building, coffee, coffee roasting, coffee trade, enterprise, Kenya, Lorna Young Foundation, LYF, nyeri, Trade not Aid, tradejustice, training | “Indeed, history has shown that there is a close relationship between investment levels in agriculture and food security. Kenya has negated on the Maputo Declaration where African governments committed to dedicate at least 20 per cent of national budgets on agriculture. Good progress had been made in the 1980s and early 1990s in reducing chronic hunger, largely due to increased investment in agriculture following the global food crisis of the early 1970s.
But in the past decade, as official development assistance devoted to agriculture declined substantially, the number of hungry people increased. Globally, FAO says 1.02 billion people are today going hungry, with Kenya having over 10 million such people. This has then been compounded by the government’s inability to prioritize service to support farmers. In Kenya, agricultural extension service to farmers is long ‘dead.’ Save for organisations like AGRA, farmers have been overlooked by donors and policymakers.
Malawi is a case worth emulating. From a net food importer to a net food exporter, Malawi has prioritized agriculture, targeting small scale producers with an elaborate system of input subsidies of at least 30 per cent.”…. etc
By Ian Agnew | Posted in Latest News | Also tagged Africa, African farmers, APPG, coffee, food crisis, Kenya, Lorna Young Foundation, LYF, smallholders, sustainable agriculture, Trade not Aid | At a time when the Right in the UK are…
By Ian Agnew | Posted in Black Gold Foundation, Farmer Extension Programme, Latest News | Also tagged Africa, African farmers, Ambo, Black gold, Black Gold Movie, Blackgold, British Govt, capacity building, coffee, coffee trade, enterprise, ethical trade, Ethiopia, fair trade, Lorna Young Foundation, LYF, OCFCU, Oromia Coffee Farmer Cooperative, trade justice, UK Aid, UK development |