Timeline

Major Events in the last 20 years

What's happened at FARM-Africa and throughout the world

FARM-Africa event World event

1985

FARM-Africa founded by the late Sir Michael Wood and David Campbell in Kenya
Ethiopian famine, "Live Aid" pop concerts raise over £50 million

1986

Sir Michael Wood dies
FARM-Africa's headquarters move to the UK
Lord Harris becomes Chairman

1987

The Camel Project begins in Kenya

1988

The Dairy Goat Project begins in Ethiopia

1989

Jan Bonde Nielsen becomes Chairman
FW de Klerk replaces PW Botha as President

1990

The Babati Agricultural Development Project begins in Tanzania
Political prisoner Nelson Mandela is set free

1991

Farmers' Research Project begins in Ethiopia
FARM-Africa begins in South Africa
Fall of the Dergue regime in Ethiopia

1992

Friends of FARM started by Ben Boughton
Community Forest Workers Conservation Project started
Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit. 30% of Ugandans have HIV

1993

FARM-Africa undertake an agriculture assessment at Riemvasmaak, South Africa, to show groups were forced from the land
Mandela and de Klerk win Nobel Peace Prize

1994

Tigray Project begins
Nelson Mandela elected President in South Africa's first multi-racial elections

Next ten years - 1995 - 2005