Farmer’s Pride Burundi
Farmer’s Pride Burundi is a youth-focused agriculture organization that promotes the setting up of technologically driven agriculture for rural development through agriculture, Micro-financing for sustainable food systems.
OUR MISSION
Empowering young people and women to find concrete, innovative and inclusive solutions to positively transform agri-food systems and create a better food future in Africa.
The Challenges
The development of Burundi's environmental and agricultural sector has long been characterized by poor performance linked to low productivity and gender inequality, a mismatch between agricultural production and the ever-increasing food demand of the population, a lack of post harvest technologies and infrastructure, and a failure to take environmental aspects into account
1. Challenges along the entire value chain
Farmers face challenges along their entire value chain. From lack of access to and financing of improved seeds and fertilizer, only traditional but not developed farming practices, to post-harvest losses due to insufficient storage solutions and unfair market prizes through middlemen to sell their harvest. Solving these challenges of African smallholder farmers has the potential to lift millions of people out of malnutrition and poverty.
2. Gender inequality
In addition to the overarching smallholder challenges, female farmers face gender inequality in their communities and society. It is estimated that if women would have the same access to productive resources as men, they could increase yields on their farms by 20-30 percent, lifting their families out of hunger. Women are the quiet drivers of change towards more sustainable production systems and a more varied and healthier diet.
Our solutions
1.Seeds as a loan to smallholders in rural Burundi.
One Farmer receives 10kg of soy-bean seeds as a loan. She plants the seeds in his or her field, where they grow to 100kg of soy-beans within three months. After the harvest the farmer gives back 20kg of his or her soy-beans to farmer’s Pride Burundi as an in-kind repayment. He uses the remaining 80kg to feed his family, sell an extra on the market or replant soy-bean for the next season.
We offer 5kg, 10kg, 15kg and 20kg options to youth or women’s cooperatives enough to cover 1 acre of land, the typical field size of a smallholder.
OUR IMPACT
More than 3 years of experience in agriculture
Empowering rural youth and women through agriculture value chains, enabling them to build resilience against economic shocks via sustainable food systems, savings groups, micro-products, and increased incomes for better access to education, healthcare, and nutrition.
88
Cooperatives
4,935+
Members
10K
Targeted Farmers
Projects
Support Project for the Active Participation of Youth and Women in Good Practices for Food Security and Climate Resilience.
This project aims to amplify the voices of young people in decision-making related to food security. It plans to create a reflection and dialogue framework led by youth and women’s organizations, equipped with educational tools (infographics, image boxes) to raise awareness of the political and technical issues related to food security. Concretely, it includes the development of strategic documents, the production of educational and impactful visuals, and targeted mentorship.
