Amalima, a USAID-supported program and implemented by CNFA, hosted its program launch in Zimbabwe. The program will assist vulnerable Zimbabweans to improve their nutritional status, increase their agricultural productivity and economically viability, and become more resilient in the face of economic and natural disasters.
CNFA volunteer Scott Stovall is featured on KVIE’s America’s Heartland Episode #922. This episode will be played across the U.S. on local PBS stations.
The Commercial Farm Service Program (CFSP) recently held a ribbon cutting for one of the six Farm Service Centers it aims to open in Ethiopia’s Oromia regional state.
The Commercial Farm Service Program adapts CNFA’s proven Farm Service Center (FSC) model to the Ethiopian context for the first time to create a viable input supply network in Ethiopia’s Oromia regional state.
The Commercial Farm Service Program (CFSP), funded by USAID and implemented by CNFA, launched its first Farm Service Center today in Bishoftu, Ethiopia. This is one out of six centers that will be up and running by the end of this two-year pilot project. Aimed at improving smallholder productivity, food security and incomes, the FSCs are a “one-stop-shop” that provide smallholder farmers with agricultural inputs, services and technologies to help them produce surpluses and become better linked to end markets. CNFA has developed farm service center networks in Afghanistan, Georgia, Moldova and Romania.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), today kicked off the first of 14 events known as “School Milk Days” at the Wushawushign Primary School in the Amhara Region. The purpose of these events is to increase the awareness and knowledge of school age children, parents, and teachers about milk.
Read about how CNFA Farmer-to-Farmer volunteer Peter Bogdanov worked with LTV to provide technical assistance and advice in vermicomposting production and marketing.
Read USAID Agricultural Growth Program – Livestock Market Development Chief of Party Marc Steen’s blog post on how this project is helping improve the nutrition and livelihoods of Ethiopians.
Read about CNFA F2F Volunteer Bruce William’s experiences featured on USAID’s Agrilinks Blog.
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