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Seed can make or break harvests in rural Africa. We're providing smallholder farmers with the skills to produce their own drought-tolerant varieties of seed, mitigating the effects of climate change and building community resilience; to increase food, nutrition and income security across Africa.
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Situation
Up to 70% of people in sub-Saharan Africa rely on small-scale farming for their survival. Up to 1 in 5 of them are hungry. Why? Food production is held back by inefficient farming practices and lack of access to the right materials, especially good quality seed. Changing weather patterns and increased periods of drought in parts of Africa such as Ethiopia are having a devastating impact on farmers harvests, worsening an already challenging situation.
Solution
Self Help Africa train farmers to produce quality seed, which results in bigger harvests and fewer people facing hunger. Seed producers provide affordable, drought-tolerant varieties to other farmers enabling them to mitigate the worst effects climate change. This will improve nutrition, increase incomes and strengthen community resilience, resulting in sustainable harvests for all.
