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Africa's Gift Sustainable food for self reliant communities
PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Changing weather patterns which deliver irregular rainfall often in destructive storm events leads for very challenging growing conditions. When you are subsistence farmer reliant on what you grow to live off - this is high stakes. We seek assistance to develop our conservation agriculture teaching farm to offer workshops & cover crops to local then regional farmers. We then wish to train the trainers to do outreach work harnessing every rainfall event turning potential hazards into resources.

Beneficiaries

  • Adults

    The poorest people are closest to the soil, but this soil is often spent, dry exposed & eroded. We wish to develop further our teaching farm & outreach in Lesotho to trap moisture, use cover crops, nitrogen fix & produce foods via companion planting.

  • Number of beneficiaries - 30000

    The beauty of the project is that its scalable & replicable.

Geographic reach

  • Lesotho
BENEFICIARIES REACHED ANNUALLY

5000

This can rise depending on finance - we have local capacity.

SIZE OF PROJECT PER ANNUM

£30,000.00

TIMELINE

Dec 2020 Onwards

Project Outcome Targets

We wish to encourage companion planting covering soil with a nitrogen fixing "blanket" then crops.

By introducing a nitrogen fixing cover crop the soil is enriched & protected from sun & wind & rain.

By having an ever present cover crops rainfall is trapped away from the sun & wind which dries it up

Project Activities

  • We have built a teaching farm in Lesotho to demo these practices which yield healthy crops.

  • We run hands on workshops to school children on conservation agriculture & rainwater harvesting.

  • We run workshops to farmers on CA companion planting & preventing soil erosion by building swales.

  • We encourage school children to harvest the crops to demo how much the farm yields to encourage idea

  • We are currently seeking grants or partners to extend our powerful fit for purpose work

Project Impact and Partners
IMPACT REPORTING

Bi-annually

March 2021

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
UN SDG 1: No Poverty
How we monitor the quality and results of our work

We employ 2 local farmers, managed by a local group and overseen by a C A expert & bi weekly reports

WHO IS ALREADY FUNDING THE PROJECT?

kenneth r dunn

We are a membership organization supported by additional public donations
OTHER PARTNERS

Dr Morake National University of Lesotho

We work alongside local academics & best practices & liaise with govt departments to prompt change.