SAA has been working hand in hand with smallholder farmers in Africa for over 30years.
NEWS
SAA News
August.14.2019
Youth Business Clinic 2018: SAA supporting youth entrepreneurship in Uganda
Over the years, SG2000 Uganda in collaboration with other development partners has promoted/supported youth’s employment in agribusiness value chain as service providers and producers. This has become the driving force for youths’ employment and modernization of agriculture that is strategically positioned to the realization of the national development plan II and the Sustainable Development Goals...
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 ...
Voices from the field
August.16.2019 / Mali
“ This foundation seed project has been an opportunity to improve our living conditions”
The Foloda Women’s Group
The Monzonblena Postharvest and Trading Center (PHTC) boasts a membership of 10 villages, and is located south of the Malian capital, Bamako. In 2017, SAA identified the villages, including Foloda, which has a population of 450 and relies on subsistence agriculture as its main source of income, to follow a needs assessment survey organized in collaboration with the nati...
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...
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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