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SAA News
July.16.2019
Holding TICAD VII Official Side Event Symposium: Sasakawa in Africa – Building on the past, looking to the future August 28, 2019, Yokohama
The Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA) is organising an official Side Event at TICAD VII in Yokohama, on 28 August. The Side Event is dealing with a serious problem facing most African countries – youth unemployment – and examining the opportunities available through entrepreneurship in agriculture.
Youth unemployment across the African continent is projected to reach 440 million by 2030, but th...
October.22.2018
Makerere University honors Late Ryoichi Sasakawa
The late Ryoichi Sasakawa, the founder and the former chairman of Nippon Foundation and one of the founding fathers of Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA), received Honorary Doctorate of Laws (Honoris Causa) from Makerere University on an event held on 9th of August, 2018.
In the presence of university community, distinguished guests and SG 2000 Uganda Staff, Hon. Professor Ruth Oniang’o, Chair ...
October.17.2018
Sasakawa Africa Association welcomes new Regional Director
The Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Mel Oluoch as new Regional Director. Dr Oluoch will be based at the SAA Regional Office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Dr Oluoch, a Kenyan national, joins SAA following a career in agricultural research, rural and value-chain development, and policy formulation. He brings to SAA a wealth of knowledge and experience in...
Voices from the field
May.7.2019 / Nigeria
“ Without SG 2000 intervention, we would have been battling with abject poverty”
The Story of the Kafin Gana Farmers’ Cooperative
The Kafin Gana Farmers’ Cooperative, in Jigawa, northwestern Nigeria, began life as a rotating savings and credit association (ROSCA) in January, 2000. At that time, the cooperative had 10 members, but by 2005 this had increased to 25, including 15 men and 10 women. In its early years the group struggled to invest effectively in profitable enterp...
April.5.2019 / Ethiopia
“They come from great distances to our shop” - The ‘Alen Tesfa’ women’s agro-processing cooperative
Tige Gelaw is from the Awabel woreda of the Amhara region in Ethiopia, bordered on the south by the famous Abay River, known as the Blue Nile. Tige is a member of Alen Tesfa, which translates to We have Hope, a women’s agro-processing cooperative group set up by SAA in 2010.
“SG 2000 came to our kebele” Tige recalls. “The first training we received was in home economics. [They] then provided us...
March.20.2019 / Mali
Malian National Director of Agriculture ‘Very Satisfied’ with SAA Interventions
As part of the partnership between SG 2000 Mali and the National Directorate of Agriculture (DNA), national supervisory field visits are held to identify and document achievements in each of the four intervention areas where SG 2000 works: Kayes,Koulikoro, Sikasso, and Ségou. By recording these successes, they can be included in national annual reports and other databases, highlighting the success...
February.13.2019 / Uganda
“ Why don’t you join Sasakawa?” The Story of the Nyarakot Group
The Nyarakot Farmer Field School 1 is situated in Asinge C of the Nyarakot parish, in Tororo District, Uganda. It consists of 30 members, 18 of whom are women, and its activities include rice, groundnut and maize production. Formed in 2012 and fully registered, it received an initial investment of 10,000,000 Ugandan shillings (USh) from SG 2000 Uganda under the Farmer Based Organizations (FBOs) pr...
WHAT WE DO
SAA builds the capacity of smallholder farmers
in Sub-Saharan Africa along the agricultural value chain.
SAA builds the capacity of smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa along the agricultural value chain.
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