Partnering For growth ANNUAL REVIEW 2010/11 A member of the Kabati Golden Group, in Central Kenya with a crop of bulb onions Working towards FARM-Africa works with a prosperous rural communities to build sustainable incomes for the long-term. rural Africa Despite global economic and technological change, more than 80 per cent of Africans live in rural areas and still rely on the food they grow and the animals they keep to survive*. In 2010, FARM-Africa worked directly with 649,000 people and improved the lives of around 7.6 million people in eastern Africa. Working alongside Africa’s farmers, herders and forest communities, we enable them to adopt the latest technologies and link to markets to make sustainable improvements to their livelihoods. Finding pathways out of poverty Dairy goat farmers working with FARM-Africa in Kenya have increased their average annual incomes from about £46 to around £497 from sales of goats and milk. Cross-bred goats command a higher sale price which is between 5 and 10 times more than local goats as they are highly productive and can yield up to four times more milk per day. Raising productivity The introduction of drought-tolerant crops in the semi-arid districts of Kitui and Mwingi, in Kenya, has seen a 249 per cent increase in sorghum yields. Linking rural Africans to markets Through partnership with SABMiller in South Sudan 2,000 farmers will be able to develop their skills to increase their crop productivity and gain access to an assured market for their cassava by 2013 benefiting up to 12,000 people. * Economywide Impacts of Climate Change on 2 Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa, IFPRI, 2009 3 FARM-Africa Annual Review 2010/11 A farmer shows his increased cassava crop in Uganda. Photograph: Guardian/Dan Chung Introduction by the Chief Executive FARM-Africa has made a real impact on rural African communities in 2010, reaching 649,000 people directly through our work. Farmers, livestock keepers and forest Going forward, we are thrilled to communities have seen their wealth become part of a Programme increase, their productivity rise and Partnership Arrangement (PPA) with their ability to access new markets the Department for International expand as they’ve transformed from Development, a prestigious strategic small-scale and subsistence farmers funding partnership that will allow us to rural entrepreneurs. Their wider to scale-up our existing work and further communities have benefited too. test innovative farming practices. What strikes me in my first few months In this annual review you’ll read further as Chief Executive at FARM-Africa is highlights of our major achievements the potential we have to enable more in 2010. Among them is the fantastic Africans to lift themselves out of poverty, support from the Bill & Melinda Gates create wealth and build sustainable Foundation that will allow us to set up futures. Our challenge is to build on this livestock health franchises under the new and dramatically increase our impact. social enterprise, Sidai Africa Ltd. You’ll see partnerships with communities, Africa’s farmers hold many of the governments, research institutions and solutions to meeting the Millennium the private sector that are already Development Goal target of halving the achieving significant and practical change. proportion of people who suffer from hunger by 2015. Global concerns about I believe our vision of a prosperous poverty, hunger and climate change have rural Africa is achievable, and that put the spotlight on agriculture, leading through working in partnership with to intense interest in our work and others we will create lasting change in demand for our expertise. rural communities. Working with you in 2011, I’m certain we can make an even Our vision of a prosperous rural Africa greater impact. demands that we work in partnership with others to achieve results at scale. Partnering for change - Nigel Harris joins farmers at the how FARM-Africa works with Nigel Harris - Chief Executive dryland farming project in Kenya others in partnership to deliver real change on the ground 5 4 5 FARM-Africa Annual Review 2010/11 Our impact in Africa 6 7 649,000 have benefited directly from FARM-Africa’s programme work in 2010. More widely, we estimate that our work has improved 2 4 the lives of 7.6 million people directly and indirectly. 6 4 7 3 6 6 3 3 6 Driving Smallholder 6 1 Pastoralism positive change development SUDAN 5 Our forestry work has seen 3 Rural Women’s Empowerment 2 Semu-Robi Community ETHIOPIA whole communities benefiting Project Development Project from environment services such 28 7 Livelihoods based emergency 4 Afar Prosopis Management Project 29 as protecting water sources and response in Afar regenerating forest areas. 5 Ethiopian Integrated 20 21 10 Maendeleo Agricultural Pastoralist Programme We’ve opened up access to markets Technology Fund 8 Community Animal Health Network 20 so smallholder farmers, pastoralists 11 MATF – Fresh fruit processing and UGANDA and forest communities can become enterprise development through the 9 SIDAI - Animal Health Services Franchise rural entrepreneurs. use of solar drying technology 24 17 20 Northern Kenya Moyale 19 KENYA We’ve helped farmers organise into 12 MATF – Promotion of upland rice 17 13 production and marketing Pastoralist Project 17 12 11 groups to take advantage of bulk 11 23 18 21 Moyale Drought Mitigation Project 23 storage and collective bargaining and 13 MATF – Production, processing and 16 16 marketing of citronella and lemon 15 access processing facilities to add 28 Food Security and Livelihoods grass oils 11 Improvement Project 8 value to their produce. 22 14 MATF – Increasing farmer incomes 9 10 We’ve helped forest communities through improved farm management, 22 move to alternative livelihood organic certification and Fair Trade labelling of cashew nut production activities that conserve natural 15 resources and improve their incomes. 15 MATF – Enhancing regional trade Forestry 22 alliances for bulb onions, targeting the We’ve also built partnerships with Nairobi market share 26 25 1 Bale Eco-region Sustainable the private sector to enable enterprise 16 Cassava Scale-Out Project 25 27 Management Programme to thrive even among pastoralist communities in hard to reach areas. 17 Upland Rice and Legumes Project 6 Strengthening Sustainable Livelihoods and Forest Management Programme 18 Western Kenya Community Livelihoods Empowerment Project 26 Tanzania Participatory Forest TANZANIA M 19 Youth Empowerment in anagement Project and Increasing F Sustainable Agriculture Project ood Security and Incomes through Mushroom Farming Project 22 Kenya Dryland Farming Project “FARM-Africa 23 Aqua Shops Project 24 Katine Community Partnerships Project instilled in 25 Agricultural and Environmental 14 Education Project and Rainwater me a spirit of Harvesting Project. 27 Tanzania Sesame Marketing Project farming as 29 South Sudan Local Cassava Initiative Water provision at the dryland business” farming project in Kenya 6 7 FARM-Africa Annual Review 2010/11 A farmer from FARM-Africa’s dryland farming project in Kenya Raising productivity FARM-Africa was founded to tackle rural poverty and food insecurity. We work in partnership with farmers Drought and crop failures in these areas They also trial different seeds on their to empower them to realise their make it difficult to ensure that food and own land to find out what works best potential and help them to create clean water will be available. for them. and access appropriate networks and technology to improve their livelihoods. Kenya’s Kitui and Mwingi districts In 2010 over 6,600 farmers were experience the worst food insecurity in trained to: We take innovation out of the the Eastern Province, with more than laboratory and get it into the hands of 60 per cent living in poverty.† Diversify their crops to reduce the the farmers who need it. Farmers do risk of harvests failing and to improve not passively receive aid from us; in each FARM-Africa’s Dryland Farming Project crop productivity. works through Champion Farmers project we work in partnership with Minimise soil and water losses them, complementing their skills and (farmers who develop their skills and knowledge to train others) and farmer using structures such as retention knowledge with the latest innovations in ditches and cut-off drains. agricultural development. groups to provide training in the dryland farming techniques needed to grow Increase access to water crops successfully in these conditions. Getting more from through boreholes and dams. dryland farming Farmers learn about drought-tolerant Conserve water through techniques crops and modern farming technologies such as drip irrigation. About 80 per cent of Kenya is classified at one of 42 demonstration plots. as arid and semi-arid land, receiving inadequate and erratic rainfall.* new lifeline for 70-year-old farmer CASE STUDY Mutyethei Nzangu, like many farmers is highly nutritious. It’s also favoured by in the Kanduti area, had planted maize East Africa Breweries Limited (EABL) in season after season but reaped little. their brewing process. During the 2010 October to December Mutyethei managed to harvest about cropping season, Mutyethei’s area 400kg of sorghum in less than one acre received less than 150mm of rain. of his five acres. He attributes his good Normally this would mean a very low yield to timely planting and double digging yield but he had joined the Muungano – both techniques that he’s learnt from Dryland Farming Group in Kaluva Village, FARM-Africa. A field of sorghum and early in 2010 FARM-Africa had introduced a number of drought-tolerant This year, Mutyethei opened his first bank “FARM-Africa instilled in me a new crops, among them Gadam sorghum. account to receive payment from EABL spirit of farming as a business, supplied for 360kgs of sorghum.