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Why
does Kaloko Trust work in Agricultural
Training & Development?
Poor soils, erratic rainfall, and lack of access to credit, seeds
or fertilisers, means that rural families are often unable to grow
enough food for the year: hunger and food shortages occur for 2
or 3 months every year. Food security is further undermined by loss
of labour through diseases such as malaria and HIV/AIDS.
What are we doing?
Kaloko Trust operates a Household Food Security Programme, which
provides loans of seeds and fertilisers to farmers in the Luansobe
area from a revolving fund. Each farmer is supported by extension
and training to improve their knowledge and skills - these are particularly
necessary to new farmers who have moved out from the urban areas
because of chronic unemployment. After the harvest the farmers repay
the loans and we then use the repayments to provide further loans
and thus expand the circle of people in the community that we can
help. |
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