At the Agri-Finance Fair in Fort Portal last November, Helika Ltd. filmed interviews with the farmers, banks and other organisations present. The videos of these interviews are now available online on the Agri-ProFocus Youtube channel, so check them out!
Agri-ProFocus member organisation Hivos takes a stand in its latest position paper on food security. Hivos advocates a renewed focus on small-scale agricultural producers, which they see as “critical to solving the global problem of food insecurity and poverty”.
As a result of an inspiring writeshop in November 2011, several Agri-ProFocus member organisations cooperated to publish a booklet about the experiences of farmers and cooperatives in the Great Lakes Region of Africa. (Rwanda, Burundi and the Kivu provinces of DR Congo). The booklet specifically focuses on how producer organisations innovated and better positioned themselves in agricultural value chains to benefit the livelihoods of their members.