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LYF Launches DFID FRICH Project with 10,000 Women Farmers in DRC

Launch of our Dfid Project with 10,000 women cocoa farmers in North Kivu.

LYF Launches DRC Cocoa Partnership

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.

Please Support the Smallholder Support Network!

By any stretch of the imagination – the SSN has…

LYF’s Smallholder Network – Delivering Tangible Results!

The LYF has now broadcast 27 weekly farmer radio programmes…

Ethiopian Coffee Farmers Still Facing Injustice

This short blog post brings in to focus the injustice…

The OCC and Abiyot

Here at the LYF we are really proud of the…

Our Not Just Youth Enterprise Groups Update

NJU product development workshops at Fairtraders’ Cooperative The NJU teams…

LYF uses Local Radio to Reach Smallholders in Kenya

Reaching the Smallholders – Small charity, Big Loud Programme! Climate…

Sustainable Agriculture – the key to African Food Crisis?

“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

Growing critical voices against food commodity market speculation

http://bit.ly/mK0QOv There is finally starting to be a recognition of the…