2023 Hope for African Supported Farmers through Orange Flesh Sweet Potato (OFSP) Potato Cultivation:
Introduction
The agricultural sector stands as the backbone of many economies worldwide, with farmers playing a crucial role in ensuring food security and economic stability. Recognizing the significance of supporting farmers, our Hope for African has initiated a program to aid farmers in cultivating potatoes, one of the most versatile and widely consumed crops globally.
This appraisal aims to evaluate the impact of our organization’s support in empowering farmers through potato cultivation and more crops. Hope for African people to be open to collaborate with partners.
OUR AGRICULTURE MANDATE
- To improve food security, farmer mobilization, strengthening agro-leaderships, agriculture-focused enterprises and value addition production.
- The Sustainable Development Goal to ‘’ End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture’’ (SDG2) recognizes the inter linkages among supporting sustainable agriculture, empowering small farmers, promoting gender equality, ending rural poverty ensuring health lifestyles
- Increasing availability of seed quality, Enhancing farmer’s knowledge and skills in good agricultural practices. And increasing in smarter value chains and improves on nutrition food
- Support and promote increase production of crops. And to promote local content production