Climate Conversations – Threshing mills make life less of a grind for West African women
A grinding machine halves the time and labour needed to thresh grain into flour for these women in Niger. The majority of women in developing countries rely on agriculture, and it is widely acknowledged that gender should be a major consideration in agricultural development for …
Market linkage forum held for processors and farmers
On 25 July, the ICRISAT-HOPE project organized a market linkage forum for 12 representatives of 6 farmer groups (Wamama Tuamue, Osipata Mabati, Umoja, Aremit Upendo, Mukhula, and MARPA) and 2 local processors (Momagy and Easrcom Enterprises) from Busia town, Busia county, western Kenya. The forum introduced …
Farmers’ field days held in Kenya
The ICRISAT-HOPE project seeks to help end food insecurity and poverty through research-for-development on sorghum and millets, enhancing technology utilization, linking farmers with markets, and strengthening the capacity of national and civil society partners in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. In Kenya, farmers’ field days …
Searching for a Market Strategy for Finger Millet in Tanzania
One of the HOPE project objectives in Eastern and Southern Africa is to discover and develop improved market strategies for finger millet to stimulate adoption of improved production technologies. Towards this goal, the HOPE Project seeks to identify intervention points along the value chain to …
Linking farmers to markets: Facilitating sorghum trade on behalf of farmers in Tanzania
Highlighting the power of markets to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers, ICRISATHOPE project partners in Tanzania negotiated a forward contract agreement for the purchase and supply of 200 tons of sorghum grain between the Kwamtoro Farmers’ Sacco and the Dunia Trust Ltd, a …