The Business of Development Helping Africa’S Smallholders Transform Into Rural Entrepreneurs

George carries sugar cane for Katine market, Uganda Photograph: Guardian/Dan Chung

The business of development Helping Africa’s smallholders transform into rural entrepreneurs

Annual Review 2009/10 Working in the field in Katine, Uganda, at sunrise Photograph: Guardian/Martin Godwin

FARM-Africa works directly with rural communities in eastern Africa, building their skills and knowledge and enabling them to lift themselves out of poverty.

We help communities identify the problems limiting their livelihoods and the income they can generate from their land, whether they are smallholder farmers, pastoralists or forest dwellers and then work with them to find the most effective and appropriate solutions.

FARM-Africa Annual Review 2009/10

Chairman’s report

It has been a year of great progress for We have collaborated and partnered Their combined skills and experience FARM-Africa. We estimate that in 2009 with a wide range of organisations in are already adding great value to our we reached over four million people in 2009, details of which you’ll find within board. We were also delighted that Kate Africa. We are now entering an exciting this review, and we continue to explore Adie agreed to become an Ambassador ways of working with those who share for FARM-Africa after supporting us for period of expansion during which we our values and our commitment to a many years. plan to help even more communities prosperous rural Africa. find pathways out of poverty. We say thank you to Sir Peter de Looking ahead and building on our long la Billière and Lord Plumb who are The European Union’s response to experience of community-based livestock stepping down as Patrons of FARM- the rise in world food prices brought development, we have particularly high Africa after long and excellent service funding for three important new hopes for the introduction of a unique to become Ambassadors. Their projects – assisting farmers to grow and livestock services franchise – a commercial distinguished support helped FARM- market sesame in Tanzania, improving enterprise with social objectives. If we Africa gain recognition in our early years dryland farming practices in Kenya and are successful in securing funding for this and we are most grateful to them. supporting the livelihoods of particularly project, its scale and approach will be a vulnerable women in Ethiopia. This substantial departure from our normal FARM-Africa ended 2009 in good significant injection of resources has activities. It will demand the very best skills financial shape and continues to be enabled us to put into action some of to implement successfully, but its potential strong. We believe the right balance is our long-held plans. to enhance our ability to help people being achieved between the prudent improve their livelihoods is huge. requirement to build unrestricted Our forestry work goes from strength reserves and the need to invest in to strength with a new project starting During the year we were fortunate growing and improving our organisation. in Tanzania, supported by the European to receive the support of Kofi Annan, Union, and another project in Ethiopia Chairman of Alliance for a Green FARM-Africa is now in its 25th year. that began in early 2010. This work is Revolution in Africa, at a fundraising This review shows that FARM-Africa is a built on our nearly 20 years’ experience dinner in London and the National vibrant and forward looking organisation of conserving forests and creating Farmers Union (NFU) kindly that has achieved much and still has sustainable livelihoods for those who commemorated their 100th anniversary huge potential for further growth and depend on forests. with a special appeal for FARM-Africa. innovation in agricultural development. I know that without the passion, energy In 2009 we welcomed three new and vision of our trustees, staff and trustees to the board - John Shaw supporters none of what is reported formerly Finance Director here would have been possible and at Oxfam, Tim Williams for that I sincerely thank them all. - Head of Enterprise and Agriculture at the Commonwealth Secretariat and Richard Macdonald who

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FARM-Africa is a vibrant and forward looking organisation has achieved much and that still has huge potential for further growth and Inspired leadership innovation in agricultural

In early 2010, with some reluctance I can say without the development. all round, FARM-Africa’s Board of slightest exaggeration Trustees accepted a request from that it has been her inspired Dr Christie Peacock, to step down as leadership that has propelled FARM-Africa over the past decade CEO of FARM-Africa later in the year. to its position today as a widely Christie has provided FARM-Africa respected and influential rural As Chairman I would like to thank with an enormous wealth of expertise development organisation. Christie for her long, dedicated and highly and practical experience. She is a effective service – and I have every faith Happily, we will continue to benefit distinguished animal scientist with a that her latest project will be a winner from Christie’s extensive experience huge passion for improving the lives of for FARM-Africa and the thousands of as she is stepping down to lead farmers in Africa. She has been CEO smallholder farmers it will benefit. FARM-Africa’s planned livestock of FARM-Africa for over 11 years and services franchise business. Martin Evans hers will be a hard act to follow.

A farmer monitors his cassava crop, western Kenya Photograph: Tessa Stanley-Price/FARM-Africa

Africa’s small farmers and herdsmen are the people who can contribute most towards satisfying the needs of the vast and hungry continent.

FARM-Africa Annual Review 2009/10

GO the Extra MILE

It seems like only yesterday that Mike Wood, David Campbell and Dick Our best work always builds the FARM-Africa was based in a wooden Sandford, a key adviser in the early skills of local people to be able to shed. At first our office was in a small years, all had a dogged determination take forward and build on initiatives hut in the garden of one of our founders, and persistence to drive forward the themselves, once FARM-Africa FARM-Africa vision of a prosperous leaves. In order to do that the Sir Michael Wood, in Nairobi. rural Africa, and an entrepreneurial initiative must generate sufficient Our other founder, David Campbell, then spirit to turn vision into reality. revenue from enterprises and real moved the office to a small wooden value (financial, social, personal) to Mike and David both looked for people building in Oxford, following Michael’s individuals, groups and communities. who were prepared to go the extra mile, untimely death. This is where I found That is real sustainability. people who had a deep commitment to David, after travelling half way round working with communities to improve FARM-Africa’s founding vision and the world to be interviewed for the job their lives, people who put their work values hold true today. How that vision of Dairy Goat Project Co-ordinator in before themselves. is turned into reality will always need to Ethiopia. He took me off to a pub and match the current age. asked me when I could start. Little did I What I learned during six turbulent know what would happen to my life in years in Ethiopia was what poverty It is not easy aligning the interests and the ensuing 22 years! really means to people in Africa – and demands of diverse donors – government that the Dairy Goat Project was donors, trusts, companies and individuals After a decade in participatory livestock supporting some of the poorest women – with the needs of people in Africa; research and post-graduate teaching I was in Ethiopia, many widows from the civil while also maintaining our vision, eager to put into practice what I knew, war, in a very real and practical way. strategic focus and independent voice. believing that there was much existing That is the challenge ahead. knowledge that was not being applied. I learned what it means to only be able to give your small child one meagre meal The needs of Africa are immense; FARM- What appealed to me about FARM-Africa a day, to sleep on the floor of a small hut Africa has never been more relevant. We was a strong commitment to support with no blankets, to spend hours collecting now have a track record of success and local people to try out new approaches to foul water and all of this with little hope of real experience to share. I urge all who solving their problems, a sense of urgency anything changing in your lifetime. read this to go the extra mile for FARM- about the mission and a commitment to Africa and thank all those who have practical and flexible solutions. I met women who shared one chicken done so for the people we serve.

with a neighbour and learned how women FARM-Africa’s original core respond with eagerness and a huge sense belief was that: of responsibility when opportunities are offered to them, and how just a little help Africa’s small farmers and herdsmen can truly transform lives. are the people who can contribute most towards satisfying the needs of Knowing the transformational power Dr Christie Peacock the vast and hungry continent. With of our work and the scale of the need, realistic and sustained support they has driven me, as Chief Executive, to can increase food production, not only explore ways in which we can scale up to feed their families, but to provide our impact, turning the experience of a marketable surpluses, and so break the small project into something of wider cycle of famine. benefit to Africa.

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Where we work

FARM-Africa works in five countries TANZANIA KENYA in eastern Africa where rural poverty Non-timber enterprise Improved animal care is particularly acute. We work with Our work with forest users in northern Three-quarters of Kenya is arid or semi- smallholder farmers, pastoralists Tanzania has resulted in thousands of arid, and in these harsh environments and forest dwellers who seek farmers gaining legal rights from the farmers struggle to make a living from opportunities to make their lives government to access and manage agriculture and livestock. In 2009, we better and often live on land that has non-timber products from the forest directly helped over 50,000 people the potential to produce better yields. reserve. This is a significant step, with over to develop viable livelihoods through 250,000 people now actively protecting improved animal care and breeding. With healthier livestock, training in new and managing the forest resources. This work also benefited the wider farming methods and better access community through increased access to to markets, hard working farming This change will help to provide a milk, meat and other animal produce. communities are seizing the opportunity sustainable living and more certain future to move from being subsistence farmers for the families. In particular, it will help SOUTHERN SUDAN to becoming rural entrepreneurs. them to tap into the lucrative markets Recovering livelihoods currently appearing for non-timber goods For 2009, we estimate that our work such as raffia and wild honey. The war in Southern Sudan ended improved the lives of around 4 million in 2005, but there has been little people, with 582,000 people benefiting UGANDA development to meet the basic needs of directly, 788,000 people benefiting Agricultural innovation the hundreds of thousands of returnees from a FARM-Africa service, and hoping to rebuild their lives. In 2009 we approximately 2.7 million people in the 77.5% of the population in Uganda worked with over 6,000 households to wider community benefiting indirectly live in rural areas and earn their living create ways of regenerating livelihoods from FARM-Africa’s work. from subsistence agriculture. Yet despite through improved natural resource Uganda’s fertile soil, favourable weather management, crops and livestock. ETHIOPIA and growing economy, over half the Farm ventures population do not have sufficient access “Before, I was wasting time in the dry to food and live in abject poverty. One in three people in Ethiopia are at season. Now I only need two more Through our role as technical advisor years and I will tell FARM-Africa, bye, bye risk of starvation and around 17 per to the livelihoods element of the Katine cent of the population already depend because I can stand on my own so they Community Partnership Project, in can help others less fortunate” on emergency food aid. In 2009, we eastern Uganda, community groups directly helped over 245,000 small- harvested their first crop of high- Peter Lwal, a group leader in scale farmers and herders raise their yield, disease-resistant Kuajok, Southern Sudan 1 8 living standards through improved cassava which helped 2 9 3 management of their natural resources, 6 4 them to mitigate 5 7 providing a better chance of establishing the effects SUDAN 10 food security and small farm businesses. 12 ETHIOPIA of drought 13 in 2009. 11 UGANDA 14 KENYA UGANDA 15 16 17 20 18 19 21 22 23 24

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PROJECT TITLE 1 Semu-Robi Community Development Project 2 Ethiopian Integrated Pastoralist Programme 3 Afar Prosopis Management Programme 1 4 Rural Women’s Enterprise Development 4 2 5 Sustainable Forest Management Programme 5 3 6 Sustainable Forest Management Programme 7 7 Rural Women’s Enterprise Development SUDAN 8 6 8 Rural Women’s Enterprise Development 10 9 Woreda Capacity Building 11 9 10 Bale Eco-region Sustainable ETHIOPIA Management Programme 11 Southern Sudan Livelihoods Recovery and Development Project UGANDA 16 12 Katine Community Partnerships Project 12 13 MATF Citronella & Lemon Grass 13 15 KENYA 17 14 MATF Fruit Processing 14 18 15 MATF Upland Rice 21 20 19 16 Northern Kenya Moyale Pastoralist Project 17 Western Kenya Community Project Type Livelihood Empowerment Project 22 18 Cassava Scale-Out Project 23 Smallholder 24 19 MATF Sweet Potato 25 Pastoralist 20 Kenya Dryland Farming Project 27 26 Forest 21 Kenya Dairy Goat & Capacity Building Project 22 MATF Bulb Onions TANZANIA 23 Agricultural and Environmental Education Project 24 Tanzania Sesame Marketing Project 25 Northern Tanzania Pastoralist Programme 28 26 Hadzabe Water Project 27 Tanzania Participatory Forestry Project 28 MATF Cashew Farming

Drought Watch Severe droughts put extreme To date 32 shallow wells have pressure on all FARM-Africa’s been built by farmers and 16 wells

a have been protected providing d projects throughout 2009. n ga communities with a year round supply , U e g tin n In recent years droughts have become of clean water that is literally saving lives. Y Ka hu oun r in C g girl c s wate an more frequent in the Kitui and Mwingi ollect n/D rdia districts of Kenya where FARM-Africa In South Omo, Ethiopia, both of the Photograph: Gua works. To help the community to deal annual rains failed in 2009. In response with the impact of drought FARM- FARM-Africa set up a Community Africa is digging shallow wells to Managed Response Fund which was These committees have already improve access to drinking water for set up to enable communities to rapidly implemented a number of rain water families and livestock. respond to the problems associated with harvesting systems, establishing vital severe drought, such as a lack of water, sources of water to help them, their Existing wells are being protected and pasture and crops. livestock and their crops better survive equipped with hand pumps to ensure during extended droughts. that they remain hygienic and in use We also set up Early Warning and and we are teaching the community Disaster Management (EWDM) to locate water sources and safely Committees to help communities excavate them. better prepare for future disasters.

FARM-Africa Annual Review 2009/10

Delivering our vision

FARM-Africa exists to tackle one of the Developing good practice Raising awareness to most pressing issues in the world today and scaling up success gain support – that of rural poverty. Over 800 million FARM-Africa’s grassroots projects develop In order to facilitate the development people across the world are classified innovative approaches that are transferable, and scaling up of FARM-Africa models, as rural poor, struggling to survive on sustainable and sensitive to local we seek increased understanding of, less than $1 per day. And yet, in Africa, environmental and economic conditions. and engagement in, African agricultural 85% of the rural poor live on land that development amongst the public, the Changing policies could be far more productive, with media and companies in the North potential for families to feed themselves FARM-Africa seeks to improve government and South. and to generate income. policies in order to encourage the uptake At the heart of this approach is a simple of good agricultural practice and the idea. We are taking our hard won FARM-Africa believes that Africa’s prioritisation of agriculture as a key tool for experience and scaling it up by enabling farmers and herders have the ability, and fighting poverty in rural Africa. other organisations and institutions to the desire, to play a key role in changing adopt it, thus reaching many millions the face of the continent – and that Sharing expertise more people than we could ever hope together we can unlock the potential As an expert organisation with skilled to do directly. of rural land and deliver our vision of a staff, we share our expertise with others prosperous rural Africa by striving for through training, technical support and success in four key areas: working in partnership.

Spreading good animal health practices the Ministry of Agriculture Our strategy for preparation of a federal level Forest Through FARM-Africa’s Community Regulation based on our forestry model. in action Animal Health Network (CAHNET), livestock herders, animal health The document is in the final stages of Throughout 2009 FARM-Africa practitioners and institutions are joining development and represents another continued to make great progress in together to share their experiences significant step in helping to protect both delivering outcomes in all areas of our of good animal health practices Ethiopia’s forests and its rural people. strategy. We embarked on many new - developing their knowledge and projects during the year, but we are practical skills to improve animal health Scaling up good agricultural particularly proud of the following: in their respective regions. development In 2009, communication across the Through the Maendeleo Agricultural Representing Africa’s network was vastly improved with the Technology Fund (MATF), a grant giving farmers launch of a new CAHNET website and fund set up by FARM-Africa in the use of SMS technology to share 2002 with joint funding from the This year our Chief Executive, Dr information with farmers instantly. Rockefeller Foundation (USA) and the Christie Peacock, was a key witness www.cahnetafrica.net Gatsby Charitable Foundation (UK), at an inquiry into global food security communities take part in on-farm trials facilitated by The All Party Parliamentary Influencing policy to identify new farming techniques Group of Agriculture and Food for and crop varieties suitable for local Development, the British Government’s During 2009 we continued to support environments. MATF grantees tested Global Food and Farming Futures the Ethiopian Government in adopting bulb onions, lemon and citronella Project and was an expert on the and implementing Participatory Forest grasses, upland rice and cashew nuts in panel of a Department for International Management techniques across the 2009, all with a great deal of success. Development seminar entitled Climate country. We provided technical support to Change: Can Africa Feed Itself?

Girl collects water in Katine, Uganda Photograph: Guardian/Dan Chung Partnerships, innovation and enterprise

To scale up our work and enable enterprise to thrive throughout rural eastern Africa, innovation and public-private partnerships are critical. 2009 saw an increased emphasis on these elements of our work.

240,000 people in Ethiopia’s Bale Massif > are developing sustainable livelihoods through non-timber enterprise as a result of The Conservation and Sustainable Resource Management of the Bale Mountains Project – a joint initiative with FARM-Africa, SOS Sahel, and the Ethiopian Government.

Up to 15,600 people in Southern > Sudan will benefit from a partnership between FARM-Africa and SAB Miller, one of the world’s leading brewers, which will provide a guaranteed market for farmers’ cassava and increase employment opportunities throughout the region as a need for farm labour, processing and distribution is generated.

23,000 people in western Kenya will be > generating an income through access to new varieties of disease-resistant, early maturing cassava as a result of We need to rapidly raise agricultural productivity, the National Farmers Union’s Africa expand the access of smallholder 100 Appeal. Farmers will take less farmers to markets, and promote time to produce greater quantities enabling policies to support them to be of cassava than previously, and with the establishment of farmer-managed productive, efficient and competitive... factories, will be able to further boost This is why the work of FARM-Africa their income through processing opportunities to add value to the cassava. is especially important because it supports locally relevant and scalable We aim to improve the access to > livestock drugs and services for one demonstrations of what works million people in the next five years through the planned introduction of a Kofi Annan, unique FARM-Africa veterinary services

Green RevolutionChairman in ofAfrica, Alliance 2009 for a . franchise. A commercial enterprise with social objectives, the project will allow poor livestock keepers to access good quality medicines and other livestock services at fair prices.

11 Girls stand, holding equipment, Katine, Uganda Photograph: Guardian/Dan Chung

The majority of smallholder farmers depend on than one hectare of landless to support their livestock, feed their families and grow surplus crops for sale.

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Innovating for smallholder success

“Agricultural biodiversity can improve Improved livestock breeding, vaccines and FARM-Africa’s Maendeleo Agricultural productivity and nutrition, enhance drugs, combined with new high-yielding, Fund (MATF) has successfully tested livelihoods, respond to environmental drought and disease resistant crops are the introduction of improved cassava challenges and deliver food security... set to improve food security, increase varieties in areas where plant diseases biodiversity and reduce risks associated have traditionally destroyed crops and Agricultural research can ensure that with economic and climatic vagaries. food security. poor, rural people, whose lives and livelihoods depend on the earth’s As population growth continues and Tests of new varieties of upland rice productive capacity, have the means to ever-shrinking plots of land become were successfully scaled up in Lowero, produce more and to produce it better.” increasingly exhausted, there is an Uganda, with over 100 marketing urgent need for the very latest in associations now formed to ensure Kanayo Nwanze, President of the agricultural innovation to reach those farmers get a good price for their rice. International Fund for Agricultural who need it most. So far over 600,000 kg of upland rice Development has been sold through these groups Bringing innovation to the helping 25,300 Ugandan farmers The majority of smallholder farmers generate a healthy income. depend on less than one hectare of grassroots land to support their livestock, feed FARM-Africa empowers communities Vitally, the adaptation of knowledge their families and grow surplus crops for by involving them in the process of gleaned from across our programmes sale. Greater investment in smallholder developing and testing agricultural saw FARM-Africa help communities farming is the main pathway out of innovation and by transferring and in post conflict Sudan recover their poverty for millions of people in Africa. adapting any knowledge gained livelihoods through access to the latest to benefit farmers throughout its techniques in water conservation, Is new technology reaching programmes and beyond. livestock development and agricultural Africa’s rural poor? production. It is hoped this will lead to 2009, in particular, saw the rate at the development of a robust Post-Conflict “I think we have to start by using which technical know-how is model to support other vulnerable to much greater effect many of the disseminated accelerate. communities in the future. technologies we have, and get inputs into the hands of small farmers.”

Joachim von Braun, former Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute

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FOCUS ON SMALLHOLDER LIVELIHOODS

New onion growing 30,000 farmers benefit from 105,000 people to benefit techniques double yields goat breeding from access to technology for 10,000 households and microfinance Expansion of our Kenya Dairy Goat MATF has given support to two villages project to drier regions has delivered Our Rural Women’s Empowerment in Endarasha, Kenya, introducing them encouraging results as families gain Project in Ethiopia is providing to hybrid onion seeds that increase access to goats’ milk and therefore opportunities for women to set up yields. Through learning better farming essential nutrients. income-generating businesses such as practices and how best to market and baking, coffee shops and small restaurants. sell their onions in bulk these farmer groups in Endarasha have seen an increase in their income.

14 Farmers sort garlic crop, Kabarole, Uganda CASE STUDY Photograph: FARM-Africa

We have beenWe able have to organise intobeen groups, able to which organise has made intoknowledge groups, transfer which easier. has We are now moving towards collectivemade knowledge marketing which transfer should easier. We are now moving towardsallow us collectiveto earn better marketing prices A second chance with garlic whichin should the market. allow us to

earnCharles better Katusabe, prices in the Population pressure in the Ugandan Garlic had previously been District Farmers Association Kabarole market. district of Kabarole is pushing the unpopular in the region. 70,000 households dependent on The variety traditionally used small-scale agriculture for a livelihood required farmers to skip a planting season to allow for to the edge of subsistence living. germination of cloves – and was Like many, Charles Katusabe had particularly susceptible to disease. invested in what turned out to be The project was designed to test the With some of his profit, Charles has boom and bust crops such as vanilla suitability of new varieties and modern since purchased more land and plans to and moringa after the collapse of the cultivation techniques to the region. expand his garlic business. He has also coffee economy in early 2000, plunging played a role in the expansion of the him and his family further into poverty. Farmers are now capable of making up project which now engages 900 farmers to UGS two million per acre (£595) - In 2005 he was chosen to take part in commercial garlic production. a six fold increase in profits generated in a garlic farming project funded by through cultivation of the same land FARM-Africa’s Maendeleo Agricultural for cassava. They can also harvest two Technology Fund (MATF) and the crops per year. Kabarole District Farmers Association.

15 Participatory Forestry Management agreement meeting, Bale, Ethiopia Photograph: FARM-Africa

We help communities to explore of earningalternative money ways harming the environment without such as bee keeping and harvesting

wild coffee.

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Mapping a sustainable future for forest dwellers

“Africa’s forest communities already Forests need to be protected and We help communities to explore generate millions of jobs and dollars managed sustainably. The money is alternative ways of earning money in domestic and regional trade... but coming on stream to provide incentives without harming the environment such as current laws undermine opportunities to ensure better management, rather beekeeping and harvesting wild coffee. than misuse, of the world’s forests, as was to improve forest management... evident by pledges made at the United We are delighted to announce that The slowness of [land] reform Nations Climate Change Conference in we have received funding from the is suppressing a whole range of Copenhagen to reduce emissions from European Union to expand the opportunities to reduce poverty and deforestation through the Reduced sustainable management of Ethiopia’s improve livelihoods.” Emissions from Deforestation and Forest forests by bringing a further 400,000 Degradation (REDD) scheme. hectares of forest under Participatory Emmanuel Ze Meka, Executive Director, Forest Management. The project will International Tropical Timber Organisation Our approach directly benefit some 300,000 people and began in January 2010. Who owns the trees? Using the Participatory Forest Management (PFM) approach FARM- In Tanzania’s Nou Forest our work Africa’s forest dwellers today have Africa establishes forest management with local communities has led to the access to less than two per cent of the plans together with local communities and approval of new forest boundaries for continent’s forests and the growing helps them to gain an understanding of six villages. Officially recognised digital demand on resources is leading to how best to balance income generation maps were produced as a result of increased poverty, marginalisation with ways of protecting the communities possessing the knowledge and conflict. forests for the future. to recognise, demarcate and map forest boundaries. Confusion over land ownership and the growing pressure on forests as a source of food and fuel means that there is little incentive for sustainable use of forests by communities.

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SPOTLIGHT ON FOREST LIVELIHOODS

Deals secured for distribution New non-timber forest- In depth study to place an of forest coffee in Ethiopia based livelihood activities economic value on carbon identified in Tanzania capture commenced BaleWild, the brand established by forest dwellers in Bale, has secured a A trial by a number of FARM-Africa FARM-Africa is continuing to study deal with Oromia Forest and Wildlife Participatory Forest Research Groups the viability of placing an economic Enterprise, to distribute its coffee to took place during the year to test the value on the carbon tied up in the an Italian speciality coffee company. A potential for a variety of new livelihood forest managed by the Bale community. further deal with ECOPIA Plc, a natural activities. In addition to beekeeping and Carbon capture could provide a products company based in Addis honey production, and the establishment possible source of income for the Ababa, will also see BaleWild Forest of tree nurseries, new opportunities in surrounding communities and release Honey used as an ingredient in a range mushroom farming, butterfly farming, millions of pounds to finance the costs of natural cosmetics. FARM-Africa sisal farming, raffia weaving and medicinal related to management of the forest, played a crucial role in the negotiation plants were identified. and incentives for conservation. of these contracts.

Honey Care Africa creates market for forest honey in Tanzania

FARM-Africa worked in partnership

with Honey Care Africa to draw up purchasing agreements which guarantee

a market for honey produced by communities in Babati forest. These agreements offer a fair market price and . participating farmers groups have been able to set up savings schemes and open up bank accounts as a result.

18 Martin, with his Langstroth beehives, CASE STUDY Endaw village, Tanzania Photograph: Evi Steegmans, FARM-Africa

In 2009 Martin harvested 25 litres of honey instead of the five he had previously gathered each year using the traditional hives. Encouraging entrepreneurial spirit through beekeeping

Martin Erro lives with his family in provide modern Langstroth beehives. previously gathered each year using Endaw Village in Tanzania, where He received five modern beehives the traditional hives. He used some of FARM-Africa is working with the which are easier to use than the honey for home consumption and local community to train them in traditional beehives and help provide sold the rest. The beekeepers got a higher honey harvests; meaning that good price for their honey, up to 5,000 ways of generating income in a excess honey can be sold to pay for Tsh (£2.40) per litre. From the money sustainable way, without damaging household essentials. He was also Martin received from selling the honey the fragile forest environment. elected to be the secretary of the he bought food and clothes for his group and was taught skills about family. The income from beekeeping Martin joined the Titta Beekeeping group management and leadership. also contributed to paying his children’s Group, which was set up by FARM- school costs. Africa to train the forest community in In 2009 Martin harvested 25 litres beekeeping techniques and to help to of honey instead of the five he had

19 Pastoralists gather with their camels at a watering hole in Moyale district, Kenya Photograph: Tony Karumba, Nairobi

We want to help pastoralists maintain their traditional way of life, but without them being dependent on livestock to survive. Project Coordinator, Boru Duba, FARM-Africa, Moyale, Kenya

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Unlocking the potential of pastoralist enterprise

“Pastoralism brings many uncounted Is pastoralism Believing in economic, environmental and social relevant today? pastoralist enterprise benefits that will be of growing For centuries Africa’s herders have lived With over 20 years experience of importance as climate change takes in some of the world’s harshest regions working with pastoralist communities, hold. Unfortunately, governments and – their movement across land effectively FARM-Africa understands how inclusion donors have undervalued the sector for ensuring the health of the community of pastoralist views in policy decisions years and this has trapped 20 million and their livestock, and the protection of will help end their economic and pastoralists in a cycle of poverty, conflict natural resources. political marginalisation. and environmental degradation.” Today, East Africa’s 20 million pastoralists Our Mobile Outreach Camps reach James MacGregor, International Institute are some of the most economically and the most remote communities. We for Environment and Development, 2009 politically marginalised people in the work with these communities to world as climate change, population establish what they need and then help growth and government policy all work them to plan to meet those needs. against their nomadic way of life. We support pastoralists to set up credit schemes allowing them to put Policies that favour farmland over their plans into practice. Often there pasture have seen pastoralists’ freedom are conflicts over land, livestock and of movement squeezed and conflict water and we train communities in over land increase. In addition, severe developing positive resolutions. droughts are leading to food shortage

and food insecurity. This year many groups successfully

diversified their income, with activities

Rather than being respected for their such as irrigated agriculture and petty

innovative management of natural trading helping them become less

resources and ability to adapt, vulnerable to market and climate

the pastoralist way of life variability, and more food and

is increasingly being income secure. seen as a relic of Africa’s past, with no value in the modern world.

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SPOTLIGHT ON PASTORALIST LIVELIHOODS

Tanzania: Thousands Ethiopia: Petty trade and Ethiopia: Community Animal become less dependent irrigation projects funded Health Workers (CAHWs) on cattle see business boom Thanks to our work in Ethiopia’s Semu Our project with the Barabaig, one of Robi district, communities are now less This year FARM-Africa trained CAHWs the most vulnerable and marginalised reliant on one form of income. Women in Semu-Robi who have significantly groups in northern Tanzania, concluded in particular, have been empowered grown their businesses, treating 54,000 in 2009 helping thousands of people to by the ability to set up saving schemes animals and increasing animal health diversify their income through a range and have obtained credit to establish service coverage by 60 per cent. This of livelihood activities and access to income-generating businesses such as led to reduced animal mortality and savings and credit. This approach allows goat trading, baking, coffee shops and over 5,000 households were supported communities to generate a regular small restaurants. Elsewhere in the by CAHWs in livelihood diversification income that is more resistant to the project, improved irrigation has seen activities such as livestock marketing. impacts of erratic rainfall and a harsh a three-fold increase in the income natural environment. generation potential of crops and livestock goods. Kenya: Over 50 small businesses established

Throughout 2009, we continued to work with vulnerable and marginalised pastoralist communities in the Moyale district of northern Kenya, helping them to start small businesses in activities such as beekeeping, livestock marketing, processing hides and skins and producing milk and meat through small pastoralist groups.

22 Members of a pastoralist CASE STUDY women’s group in Moyale, Kenya Photograph: FARM-Africa

Now I have a reason to smile. I have an income, my family is healthy and my husband and I live in peace. Sadia Adan, member of Reducing pastoralists Tokuma Women’s Group dependence on cattle

FARM-Africa works with pastoralists My husband was a casual worker, I started selling milk and in northern Kenya to help them to which generated very little income. producing other dairy products. I soon diversify their incomes, making their Over the years this work dwindled made enough money to diversify into livelihoods more secure. and we were unable to meet our daily other activities and have opened a retail needs. We were quarrelling every day. kiosk in the Mado Adhi trading centre Sadia Adan is a member of Tokuma where I sell everything from essential Women’s Group which is supported I started to fetch firewood to sell household items to clothes. by our project in northern Kenya. She within our village in order to bring has received training in livestock based some money into our home. But Now I have a reason to smile. I have product marketing. this too promised little. These were an income, my family is healthy and my unhappy days. husband and I live in peace. I have also “I know that poverty is unjust. Before I been involved in decisions on issues joined Tokuma Women’s group I relied All this changed when I joined the facing my community. only on what my husband could give group and received a small loan and me to run the household and take training in business development skills. Aside from the financial benefits, I have care of our family. contributed towards the development of the entire community.”

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FUNDRAISING NEWS

“I have supported FARM-Africa for FROM BIG EVENTS...... TO BIG CHALLENGES many years. I greatly admire their resolve and determination in facing An evening with Kofi Annan Atlantic rowing vets the challenge of creating sustainable This year FARM-Africa was proud to Vets, Jim Houlton and Paul Milnthorpe, developments in eastern Africa. Their host a fundraising evening featuring an took part in one of the world’s toughest grassroots approach is not only engaging interview with Kofi Annan, rowing races when they competed in effective but also efficient working to who gave a stimulating account about the 2009 Woodvale Atlantic Rowing reach the greatest number of people his life and work. As well as raising Race. The Atlantic Vets spent 78 days at much needed funds for our work, the sea – a gruelling exercise which raised possible for every penny received.” event provided a strong platform to over £15,000 on our behalf. Michael Palin, FARM-Africa’s Patron, 2009 engage with many key opinion formers and entrepreneurs on agricultural Three continents, 17 FARM-Africa would not be able to development issues. countries, 6,000 miles carry out its work without the help of In 2008 Sam Williams rowed the Atlantic our many supporters, especially when The Africa 100 Appeal Ocean solo and unsupported to raise times are tough. The Africa 100 Appeal, launched by the £20,000 for FARM-Africa’s dairy goat We would like to say a huge thank you National Farmers Union (NFU) in 2008, project in Mwingi, Kenya. In 2009 he to the many individuals, groups and marked the centenary of NFU and made another breath-taking journey for organisations that went the extra mile united the UK farming industry to raise the charity, cycling across Africa to see to raise funds for FARM-Africa in 2009. funds to help increase sustainable food the programme he was raising money for production in East Africa. The appeal first hand. After 109 days of solo cycling raised over £200,000 for our work, with he arrived at his destination to singing our chairman, Martin Evans, receiving and dancing from a group of delighted the cheque at the Farmers Weekly farmers thanking him for his support. Awards in October 2009. Running in Ethiopia

Highlands and Pridelands Ball In November a party of 12 supporters This year the Highlands and Pridelands travelled to Ethiopia to take part in the Ball once again proved the Scottish 2009 Great Ethiopian Run. The trip was farming community’s unstinting support organised by Friend of FARM Tim Jury of rural farmers in eastern Africa. A and between them the runners raised highlight of the evening was a talk given the magnificent amount of £28,586. by FARM-Africa Ambassador Kate Adie, OBE. Throughout the evening over 40 lots were auctioned raising a total of nearly £40,000.

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GETTING INVOLVED

FARM-Africa helped over 4 million Simien Mountain range, climb Kilimanjaro of our agricultural experts or simply people in 2009 and we want to help or simply go for a romantic weekend in make a regular donation that ensures even more in 2010. To do that we need Paris, completing the London to Paris that FARM-Africa can be there for to raise over £9 million and every bike ride on the way. farmers in Africa when they need us. penny makes a difference. Here are A sporting challenge means lots of If you’d like to get your customers some ways that you can get involved training. Raise £5,000 through your involved you could make a donation and help raise funds… adventure and we could set up a for every product or service sold, demonstration plot in Kenya enabling increasing sales and making a difference Sporting challenges even more people to learn at the same time. how to grow enough vegetables to “The effort is nothing compared to that feed their families. Whatever you choose, we will work put in by the farmers who, with FARM- with you to make sure that your support Africa’s support, are determined to Raising money this way is also thirsty makes a positive difference to your improve their lives,” said a modest Sam work. Raise £10,000 and we could drill business, as well as making an impact on Williams after his incredible 6,000 mile a new borehole in drought-ridden Kenya, the businesses of hundreds of farmers. bike ride across Africa. giving 8,000 people access to clean water for household use and vegetable gardens. Raise £25,000 and you could provide Sporting challenges are a great way of business insurance for 14 farmers by raising significant funds for our work and Get your company involved training them in basic yet crucial animal getting fit in the process. So if you have healthcare to prevent animals dying. a competitive streak, why not challenge Throughout this annual review we have yourself in our name? We’ll do our best illustrated how FARM-Africa helps some Raise £40,000 and you could help to support you all the way. of the world’s poorest people change maximise profits for a Tanzanian their lives through the establishment of community by paying for two storage In 2011 we’re aiming to enter our biggest small businesses. centres, allowing farmer groups to store team ever for the London Marathon their sesame crop and sell it when prices and you could be part of that team. Your organisation could also change are favourable. Alternatively, why not combine a trip of a lives. You could engage your staff in lifetime with a challenge that will change employee fundraising, sponsor one lives? You could trek through Ethiopia’s To find out more about these and many other ways to get involved please call the fundraising team on:

Other ways to support our work 020 7430 0440 Get more involved by making a Make a one off or email us at: significant gift. Our philanthropy regular donation [email protected] team offers supporters the opportunity through our website and or visit our website at: to visit projects, receive personalised receive regular feedback briefings from project staff and have on the difference that your www.farmafrica.org.uk regular meetings with senior staff. money is making in Africa.

Fundraise in your local Leave a legacy to community by joining one of our FARM-Africa in your Will Friends of FARM groups or going and give hope and a chance for it alone and setting up a plant sale, a better future to many people. quiz supper, or whatever else might showcase your talents.

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FINANCES

The information presented on this In total £5.5 million (81%) of However, strong financial management page gives an overview of FARM- expenditure in 2009 was made on and clear strategic goals allow us to Africa’s income and expenditure for direct charitable activities, compared look forward with confidence to 2010 the year ended 31 December 2009. to £5.3 million (83%) in 2008. This and beyond. represents our ongoing commitment to 2009 has been a successful year for operating efficiently and to delivering For a fuller understanding of the FARM-Africa financially despite the the best possible impact for our financial affairs of the charity please considerable issues in the global beneficiaries. request a copy of the full Annual economic environment, and the Report and Consolidated Financial continuing challenge of funding the core We begin 2010 in a strong financial Statements from the Director of costs that allow us to work strategically position, although with lower levels Resources, FARM-Africa, Clifford’s Inn, and plan and fund innovative, high- of unrestricted reserves than we Fetter Lane, London, EC4A 1BZ quality programmes. consider necessary for long term financial stability. We expect 2010 to be We increased our incoming resources another challenging year economically by over £730,000 in the year, and – the credit crunch is not yet over and generated a surplus of £331,000 – a exchange rates remain volatile. strong result in difficult economic times. t hav Wha e we spe spent £6.9 nt e mil it W lion o in n he money com 2 ? s t e 00 oe fr 9 d illion in inc om e .2 m om ? er £7 e i Generating h d n 2 ive 0 Funds: W e 09 ec 18% r e W Improving Trusts and Developing Practice: Corporates: 14% 17% Agricultural Best Practice: Institutional 49% Donors: Appeals and 52% Legacies: 17%

Governance Costs: 2% Raising Awareness: 8% Changing Policy: 9% Community Fundraising: 2% Other Income Sources: 4% Committed Giving: 8%

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