{"id":"c306606d-7a41-4cc5-8e47-88b96d313d37","short_name":"fa","human_readable_name":"Farm Africa","dataset_count":2,"created_date":"2025-12-01T11:42:00+00:00","data_portal_url":"","default_licence_id":"cc-by","description":"In 1985, Sir Michael Wood and David Campbell, who shared a vision of a prosperous rural Africa, established Farm Africa in response to the famine in Ethiopia.  Identifying that food is the best medicine, they believed that developing small-scale agriculture is the key to reducing rural poverty. In 1987, Farm Africa started work with nomadic pastoralists in the remote north of Kenya, expanding to Ethiopia a year later.  \n\nFarm Africa believes that Africa has the power to feed itself and that its smallholders hold the key to lasting rural prosperity. We work directly with farmers to help them unleash their potential to feed Africa’s people.  We pioneer techniques that boost harvests, reduce poverty, sustain natural resources and help end Africa’s need for aid.  \n\nFarm Africa has 200 staff operating across the east African countries of Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.  Farm Africa’s local staff provide the tools and expertise to enable smallholders in eastern Africa to increase their harvests, whether they farm crops, livestock, fish or the forest.  We train them to be more commercial, adding value to surpluses by milling, drying, or turning their produce into products that fetch a higher price.  With better food for their families and reliable incomes from their businesses, farmers can build for the future.\n\n\n\n\n","exclusions_policy_url":"","first_publication_date":"2013-05-01T00:00:00+00:00","hq_country":"GB","organisation_identifier":"GB-COH-01926828","organisation_type":"21","region":"","reporting_source_type":null,"website":""}