Yara’s commitment to provide food for more than one million people in Southern and Eastern Africa can help avert a food crisis today and help farmers thrive tomorrow.
Yara’s commitment to provide food for more than one million people in Southern and Eastern Africa can help avert a food crisis today and help farmers thrive tomorrow.
Amid COVID-19, a time of crisis becomes a catalyst for transformation in East Africa
The UN projects 265 million people face severe food insecurity due to COVID-19; no event since World War II’s end has had as profound a global impact. Through Action Africa, 250,000 farmers can now provide food for one million people in East Africa for one year, while millions more are connecting to ongoing advice through Yara’s groundbreaking new digital platform.
Agnes lives in Ramba village with her three daughters, mother, brother and sister-in-law. Agnes isn’t unusual in carrying the responsibility of several children, extended family, and maintaining the home. She is a part of the Action Africa initiative on behalf of her mother, who is too elderly to participate on her own. Besides helping her mother on the farm, Agnes works as casual labourer.
Elibariki lives with his wife and their two children in Kiomu, Kahe Ward, Moshi Rural District, Tanzania. On his farm, he grows maize, and dreams of expanding the farm from one-and-a-half acres to two or three more. It is important for him to increase his earnings to be able to take care of his family. For Elibariki, Action Africa has the potential to have a real impact on his dreams to expand his farm and increase his income from the harvest.
The very idea of getting 40,000 metric tons of fertilizer produced in Norway, shipped with two vessels from Porsgrunn to Mombasa in Kenya and bringing it from Mombasa to Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Rwanda, Zambia and Mozambique was a massive piece of logistic operation. What has been achieved in an extraordinarily short period of time is unique. This could not happen if we didn't have trusted, good quality relationships in the continent.
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