Theme: Good agricultural practices
Palm as livelihood in Ixcán: A smallholder’s story
When farm productivity rises, it enables smallholders to take small but significant steps towards improving their quality of life. Cristobal…
06 October 2021
Improved livelihoods among livestock farming women and youth in Itebe, Zambia
Solidaridad and Grassroots Trust partnered to empower women livestock farmers with skills diversification through the Nambola project. With a focus…
29 September 2021
Youth empowered to set up eco-friendly agribusinesses in Nigeria
With the aging oil palm smallholder farmers who are mostly in the rural parts of the country, Solidaridad is encouraging…
27 September 2021
High-value horticultural markets to improve smallholder livelihoods
The “Smallholder Access to High-Value Horticultural Markets” project, funded by the European Union under the Switch Africa Green facility, helped…
26 August 2021
A journey towards safe and smart farming
Basonti Rani, of Bangladesh, has been farming since the late 1990s, but struggled to make ends meet. When she joined…
19 August 2021
“I Lost my Hospitality Job Due to Covid-19, But Coffee Came to My Rescue”
When Covid-19 hit Kenya in 2020, an estimated 1.7 million Kenyans lost their sources of livelihood (Federation of Kenya Employers,…
17 August 2021
Creating Employment Opportunities for Youth in Agriculture, One Youth at a Time
Marion Wanjiku was motivated to pursue sustainable coffee farming as a result of training provided by the Solidaridad Practice for…
10 August 2021
Creating the Next Generation of Coffee Farmers in Kenya
The increased involvement of youth in agriculture has been identified as a viable solution for among other challenges the ageing…
Rural Service Centres: Transforming the palm oil sector in Ghana through investing in smallholder farmers
The palm oil sector in Ghana has great potential to increase production on the existing 330,000 hectares of oil palm…
26 July 2021
Breaking Cultural Barriers to Build a Profitable Dairy Farming Business
Ester Makenga credits her ambitious nature for leading her into dairy farming more than a decade ago. As a project…
28 June 2021
