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FARM-Africa receives a generous cheque for the Africa 100 Appeal

The National Farmers Union presented FARM-Africa’s Chairman Dr Martin Evans with a cheque for £205,000 at a sparkling awards dinner at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London to mark the pinnacle of the Africa 100 Appeal.

The appeal, a year long partnership between the charity and the National Farmers Union, was launched to celebrate the centenary of the National Farmers Union. It has drawn on generous support from the UK farming sector and has highlighted the links between the sector and farmers in eastern Africa.

The money raised through the Africa 100 Appeal will support the scale up of FARM-Africa’s successful cassava project which will be run through our Maendeleo Agricultural Technology Fund. This project will promote the planting of new higher yielding and disease resistant cassava varieties in Kenya. This means that farmers who were previously dependent on food aid have now achieved food security and can sell their produce to help support their livelihoods.

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This is great great news for East Africa. It is a sigh of relief for the cassava growing small holder farmers in Western Kenya who are food insecure. We are grateful and we sincerely salute all the UK citizens who have given their contributions. In particular we thank the National Farmers Union(NFU)and its entire membership of the UK farmers fraternity for their concern and commitment. Your support will go a long way in improving livelihoods and reducing poverty levels in Kenya.

Great , this is goodnews for us in the field with MATFand we are delighted. Thanks all and NFU and the UK farmers for this honourable gesture for anoble cause. The farmers will now benefit and have food and incomes for rural poverty alleviation in western Kenya.

This is great great news for East Africa. It is a sigh of relief for the cassava growing small holder farmers in Western Kenya who are food insecure. We are grateful and we sincerely salute all the UK citizens who have given their contributions. In particular we thank the National Farmers Union(NFU)and its entire membership of the UK farmers fraternity for their concern and commitment. Your support will go a long way in improving livelihoods and reducing poverty levels in Kenya.

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