Agriculture provides income, employment and food β and the raw materials that power industry. We help build a sustainable path that lifts rural livelihoods without jeopardising the natural resources future generations will need.
Creating a sustainable agricultural path means improving quality of life in rural areas, ensuring enough food for present and future generations, and generating sufficient income for farmers.
It also means maintaining productive capacity for the future and increasing productivity without damaging the environment β while respecting local knowledge and local management of natural resources.
Practical programmes that raise incomes and productivity while restoring the landscapes farming depends on.
We tackle barriers to sustainable cocoa at three levels β working with traders, promoting biodiversity-conserving certification, and supporting farmers to adopt best practices that connect forest fragments and lift productivity.
CREMA helps communities become organised and thoughtful about how natural resources are used β catalysing sound decision-making and giving organisations and government a structure to work through.
A water-conservation technology that captures excess rainfall and flood water, filters it and stores it in the aquifer for dry-season cropping β enabling at least two cropping seasons and up to 70% higher land productivity.
To scale sustainable cocoa, the programme works to remove barriers at three connected levels β from global markets down to the individual farm.
Working with cocoa traders to back farmers adopting sustainable practices, linking best management to productivity.
Promoting certification models that reward biodiversity-conserving, productive agroforestry systems.
Supporting farmers to adopt practices that enhance farm ecology and reconnect forest fragments while raising yields.
Our programmes and projects under Agriculture and Rural Development are aimed at sustainable cocoa production, community resource management areas, PAVE irrigation and fisheries development.
Agroforestry systems that conserve biodiversity and raise farm incomes.
Community-led governance of shared natural resources.
Turning floodwater into dry-season productivity.
Strengthening livelihoods along the water's edge.
Your support helps smallholder farmers adopt sustainable practices that raise incomes and heal the land at the same time.
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