Current Projects

Creating a sustainable future for young cocoa farmers in Ivory Coast

Location: Ivory Coast, West Africa Project participants: 50 young cocoa farmers Partner: Cooperative Agricole de Yakasse Attobrou (CAYAT) Duration: 12 months + four years follow on support Our Growing Fairer Futures project sees us work closely with 50 young people in Ivory Coast, to help make their cocoa farms more sustainable.

Building sustainable livelihoods for women in rural Nicaragua through organic sesame farming 

Location: Nicaragua, Central America
Project participants: 40 farmers
Partner: Coproexnic (sesame and peanut cooperative)
Duration: 12 months

Working in partnership with local co-operative, Coproexnic, this project is supporting 40 women in rural northern Nicaragua to become organic sesame farmers

Increasing economic opportunities for women in Ghana through soilless farming 

Location: Ghana, West Africa
Project participants: 120 basket weavers
Partner: TradeAid Integrated
Duration: 24 months

Working in partnership with not for profit organisation TradeAid Integrated, this project will support a group of Ghanaian basket weavers to establish a vegetable farm without the use of soil.

Eco friendly farming methods in Peru 

Location: Peru, South America
Project participants: 530 coffee farmers
Partner: CECAFE (coffee cooperative)
Duration: 12 months

Working in partnership with local co-operative CECAFE, we are supporting coffee farmers in the northern jungle of Peru to increase their resilience to the coffee borer beetle, and produce their own supply of organic compost.

Creating a sustainable future for young coffee farmers in Rwanda

Location: Rwanda, East Africa
Project participants: 50 young coffee farmers
Partner: Agricultural Coffee Cooperative of Mabanza (KOPAKAMA)
Duration: 24 months

Our third Growing Fairer Futures project will support young people in western Rwanda to establish their own coffee farms

Increasing the resilience of coffee farming households in rural Uganda through income diversification.

Location: Uganda, East Africa
Project participants: 365 coffee farmers
Partner: Bukonzo Organic Farmers Co-operative Union (BOCU)
Duration: 24 months

Working in partnership with Bukonzo Organic Farmers Co-operative Union (BOCU), this project will support Ugandan smallholder coffee farmers to increase their coffee yield, and diversify into passion fruit production.

Location: Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

Duration: 12 months

This 12-month project is supporting 200 economically vulnerable women, who live in the semi-urban areas around the city of Bobo-Dioulasso. The aim being to increase their income through the production and sale of organic vegetables, using an innovative soilless farming technique.