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Farm Africa
- Details
- FARM Africa is a
non-governmental
organisation (NGO)
that provides aid to
eastern Africa
- It's funded by voluntary donations
- It was founded in in 1985 to reduce rural poverty
- Farm Africa runs
programmes in five
African countries
- Ethiopia
- Farm Africa has been
operating in Ethiopia
since 1988.
- Rural Women's
Empowerment which helps
about 15,160 people in
Various regions
- PROBLEMS: There are very few
opportunities for Ethiopian women to
make money. This means they have a
low quality of life and struggle to afford
things like healthcare
- What is being done?
- Women are
given
training and
livestock to
start farming
- loan schemes have been set
up to help women launch
small businesses like bakeries
and coffee shops
- Women have been given
legal training to advise
other women of their
rights
- Women are
given
training and
livestock to
start farming
- What is being done?
- PROBLEMS: There are very few
opportunities for Ethiopian women to
make money. This means they have a
low quality of life and struggle to afford
things like healthcare
- Prosopis management which
helps about 4400 households in
Afar
- PROBLEMS: Prosopis, a plant introduced by the
government to stabalise soils, has become a pest - it
invades grazing land, making farming difficult
- What is being done?
- Farmers are shown how to convert prosopis
into animal feed which can then be sold and
generate a new source of income
- Farmers are shown how to convert prosopis
into animal feed which can then be sold and
generate a new source of income
- What is being done?
- PROBLEMS: Prosopis, a plant introduced by the
government to stabalise soils, has become a pest - it
invades grazing land, making farming difficult
- Community Development Project
which helps 4100 people directly and
60,000 indirectly via veterinary care in Semu Robi
- PROBLEM: Frequent droughts make farming
difficult, it reduces income and can lead to
malnutrition. Semu Robi is a remote region so
getting veterinary care for livestock is difficult
- What is being done?
- People are given loans
to buy small water
pumps to irrigate their
farmland, reducing the
effects of drought
- people are
trained in basic
veterinary care so
they can keep
livestock healthy
- People are given loans
to buy small water
pumps to irrigate their
farmland, reducing the
effects of drought
- What is being done?
- PROBLEM: Frequent droughts make farming
difficult, it reduces income and can lead to
malnutrition. Semu Robi is a remote region so
getting veterinary care for livestock is difficult
- Sustainable Forest management helping around 7500 communities in Bale
- PROBLEM: Forests are cut down to make
way for crops and livestock. The trees are
also used fro firewood, all this reduces
resources for future generations.
- What is being done?
- Communities are taught how to make
honey and wild coffee which generates a
profit without the impact of deforestation
- communities are also
taught how to make
fuel efficient stoves
that use less wood
- Communities are taught how to make
honey and wild coffee which generates a
profit without the impact of deforestation
- What is being done?
- PROBLEM: Forests are cut down to make
way for crops and livestock. The trees are
also used fro firewood, all this reduces
resources for future generations.
- Rural Women's
Empowerment which helps
about 15,160 people in
Various regions
- Farm Africa has been
operating in Ethiopia
since 1988.
- Sudan
- Kenya
- Uganda
- Tanzania
- Ethiopia
- FARM Africa is a
non-governmental
organisation (NGO)
that provides aid to
eastern Africa
- key terms
- long term
- bottom up
- Multi-lateral
- Medium/small scale projects
- long term
- Effects?
- Positive
- Short term
- Gives immediate
help to
communities
- Gives immediate
help to
communities
- Long term
- helps people to help themselves
- it provides sustainable development instead of just
quick aid that won't benefit in the long term
- Reduces Inequalities
- Prevents deforestation
- helps people to help themselves
- Short term
- Positive
- Was it a success?
- YES!!!
- It has helped people to help themselves thus it is a long term, sustainable solution to
Africa's stunted development, and reduces their reliance on immediate aid. However it
is a long process and may take a while to implement and gain positive effects.
- It has helped people to help themselves thus it is a long term, sustainable solution to
Africa's stunted development, and reduces their reliance on immediate aid. However it
is a long process and may take a while to implement and gain positive effects.
- YES!!!
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