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Falling yields, erratic weather patterns and illegal gold mining have pushed smallholder cocoa farmers in south-western Ghana to abandon their farms for informal mining. Through the Wassa Amenfi Cocoa Landscape Initiative, farmers in the isolated Abrokonso community are integrating native shade trees to lower ambient field temperatures, restore soil moisture and bring cocoa back into production.
Written by Misozi Magaleta, Project Manager at Solidaridad (Southern Africa)
In Malawi, what started as a pilot initiative has now grown into a scalable solution that is helping farmers tackle one of the tea sector’s biggest challenges which is limited access to quality planting materials. Smallholder tea farmers in Mulanje and Thyolo are transforming tea production through farmer-led seedling nurseries. These nurseries are supported by the Solidaridad’s Pathways to Prosperity Tea Project, funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Judith Munini spent over 30 years farming rain-fed crops in drought-prone Makueni County, Kenya, struggling with water scarcity, pests and unreliable income. With support from the Acting Now project, she adopted solar-powered drip irrigation, organic composting and dryland fruit farming. Today she runs a commercial tree nursery with over 20,000 seedlings and has trained more than 200 farmers.