Give seeds to Women Farmers of Burkina Faso

Thanks to you, 2022 was a very impactful and meaningful year for FarmSahel

Please enjoy reading our Impact Report and know how grateful we are for your generosity. Your legacy is one of helping smallholder women Farmers of Burkina Faso make their way out of poverty through Regenerative Agriculture.

• 450 women received training on the production, use and conservation of solid and liquid compost. After the training, farmers were able to produce composts for their individual farms. With every woman farming 0.1 hectares (0.2 acres) plot of land, we were able to restore at least 45 hectares (111 acres) of land. We registered an average increase of agricultural yield of 40% .
• Through the FarmWallet program, people donate monthly to allow us to subsidise organic seeds to farmers. We use funds from the FarmWallet to provide seeds at a very low cost to start the planting season. The 450 women who received training composting provided were with on all organic cowpea seeds for the planting season
• We strengthened the capacities of the 450 women on the technical itineraries of cowpea production. 

We started 2023 very strong thanks to you. We will keep you posted the amazing work our team is doing on the ground. 

Our recurring donors are making a continuous impact and we are truly grateful for the ongoing support. If you are not yet a recurring donor, we warmly invite you to consider setting up a recurring donation.

Please also share this with your contacts and invite them to consider supporting this ongoing project.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at info@farmsahel.org.

Thank you!

It’s that time of year again. Our favorite time we will say. You supported us with training on cowpea farming techniques, on the production of liquid and solid compost, and with organic cowpea seeds to make this moment enjoyable. Even Though heavy rain has destroyed some of the farmers' crops this year, we are happy to report that 90% of our farmers had a very good year. The income they make will help with food, healthcare, and education for their children.

Farmers harvested, now what. They will wait for next year to start planting because they don’t have the resources to grow crops during the dry season. This is why we are counting on you to build a water well for an irrigation system to grow off-season crops. Our goal is to provide one community with the gift of water. Your donation will support the women farmers of Burkina Faso and over 2000 citizens in the village of Binde. Help us raise 10k to build a water well.  Every dollar counts. 

Thank you for your support!

Thank you so much for supporting FarmSahel!

Because of your continuous support, this year, FarmSahel supported 310 women farmers from 9 villages of Bindé, a rural commune of Burkina Faso with training on the production of liquid and solid compost and on the technical itineraries of cowpea planting. All 310 women received organic cowpea seeds and are now ready for the 2022 planting season.

Through our new program of Food Growth through Regenerative Cultivation, FarmSahel embarked on this training initiative. FarmSahel focused on educating farmers on creating, using, and storing solid and liquid compost. Compost is necessary in the Sahel because the soil that rural African farmers depend on is deprived of nutrients and organic matter. When trying to plant in this soil, yields are oftentimes insufficient, with a high potential for plant disease. In an attempt to replenish nutrients, farmers would apply harsh fertilizers and pesticides. While this worked at first, over time, it quickly became unsustainable. Additionally, pesticides are expensive and contribute to soil deprivation. FarmSahel learned of the harsh side effects of fertilizer and devised a way to educate farmers on the importance of compost.

FarmSahel also distributed organic cowpea seeds to all the women who received the training and will continue with field visits once they start planting and with training on post-harvest management (crop conservation).

We hope you enjoy seeing the impact your donation is making! Our training on compost and other sustainable and healthy farming techniques will continue with support from donations! With each donation, small or large, we can expand our training programs, provide women with better tools, and create an overall increase in quality of life for the rural women farmers of Burkina Faso.

Our recurring donors are making a continuous impact and we are truly grateful for the ongoing support. If you are not yet a recurring donor, we warmly invite you to consider setting up a recurring donation.

Please also share this with your contacts and invite them to consider supporting this ongoing project.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at info@farmsahel.org.

Thank you so much for supporting FarmSahel!

Because of your ongoing support, this time of the year, we provide training to our farmers; However, this year is different. A coup that overthrew the president of Burkina Faso was launched on January 23, 2022. This event affected our work, and we are now planning our training for April. Stay tuned.

To continue to better serve our farmers, participatory diagnostic workshops were organized and held by our team in Bindé on November 17, 18, and 19, 2021. During these workshops, the village development committees, women's groups, representatives of internally displaced women due to terrorist attacks, and administrative leaders were present. The workshop aimed to identify the real problems of the community to adapt our interventions.

From these workshops, FarmSahel found out that there are no irrigated systems for off-season planting. Making a population of 50,000 people rely on rain every year to farm. This means farming for three months and having no activity for nine months, waiting for the next planting season. On top of that, farmer every day are faced with the many uncertainties of rain, wind, heat, cold, drought, flood, erosion, and environmental degradation. Women are the most vulnerable because they do not have access to resources the way men do. Against these uncertainties they apply their wits, strength, stamina, and courage to feed their families and, if possible, improve their quality of life. One unfortunate weather creates food insecurity for these women.

Fight Against Women Poverty, is a project we will soon launch to strengthen the capacities of women through technical training of off-season production with irrigated plots and off-season production kits.

Your continued support is what helps us provide these vital services to these women.

Our recurring donors are making a continuous impact and we are truly grateful for the ongoing support. If you are not yet a recurring donor, we warmly invite you to consider setting up a recurring donation.

Please also share this with your contacts and invite them to consider supporting this ongoing project.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at info@farmsahel.org.

Thank you for your ongoing support. Access to pesticides means higher crop yields and increased food security for the women farmers of Burkina Faso. We are so grateful that FarmSahel was able to provide not only pesticides and sprayers, but also recently hosted a workshop teaching the best methods for using these important tools.  

On Tuesday August 10, 2021, FarmSahel held a training with the women farmers in Kaïbo. This training took place in the middle of the planting season to show our farmers how to use the sprayers and how to apply the pesticides from our previous donation. The goal is to equip these women with good farming techniques to increase their productivity.

The happy beneficiaries welcomed our team who came at the right time according to the representative of the women of Kaïbo. They also used the opportunity to thank the Executive Director of FarmSahel, who were present at the training, for the ongoing support they get from FarmSahel. It was the right occasion for them to express some needs as well, in particular the absence of income-generating activities in the dry season and their wish to obtain micro-loans to support their continuous efforts to provide for their families.

As a reminder, the productions of the women at the end of this planting season will be bought by the local government to supply school lunch. As a result, this should enable 438 women to obtain income to support their families.

Your continued support is what helps us provide these vital services to these women.

Our recurring donors are making a continuous impact and we are truly grateful for the ongoing
support. If you are not yet a recurring donor, we warmly invite you to consider setting up a
recurring donation. $24 a month goes a long way.

Please also share this with your contacts and invite them to consider supporting this ongoing
project.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at info@farmsahel.org.