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Mrs Amina Djao Aly is one of thousands of cacao farmers in the Diana Region who receive technical support from AKF. As a result, she is able to grow beans of a superior quality and sell them for a higher price, thereby improving her revenue.
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In poor rural areas, community-based savings groups are often providing people with access to basic finance for the first time. Digital savings and loans on mobile phones make the process even more secure and convenient.
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Community-based savings groups allow poor farming households to quickly access savings or credit, be it to pay for school fees or planting labour or to defer selling harvests to a time when prices are higher. Youth are also encouraged to join and save.
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In Madagascar, AKF is working with rural households to adopt biogas as an environment-friendly alternative to cooking fuel. Feeding bano grass to cattle increases the volume of their waste and helps generate more hours of odorless biogas for the family's smoke-free stovetop.
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Decomposing cattle excrement in a biodigester causes it to ferment and produce biogas to fuel Mrs Martinique’s kitchen appliances, eliminating the need to burn firewood.
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Sweet potato and manioc harvested by an AKF-supported rice farmer and his wife. These foods and other vegetables and fruits grown as part of the horticulture activities supported by the Foundation enrich their family's diet with more vitamins and minerals.
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Since 2005, over 80,000 smallholder rice farmers in Madagascar have increased their yields by up to three-fold, helping to end the hungry season for their families. These farmers have learned techniques that produce rice of better quality, in less time and with less labour.
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Nutrition is increasingly a focus of AKF’s programme in Madagascar. During the off season rice farmers are planting vegetables and fruits whose vitamins and minerals enrich their diet. Here they are learning how to produce organic compost.
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Premiere Agence de Microfinance (PAMF) client Abdallah Karimo Angelo, with his wife and daughter. Here Mr Angelo checks the accounting for his small grocery store, one of the 4 businesses that he has established with the help of PAMF loans.
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Farmers working in these fields are using the off-season to grow a variety of vegetables and herbs including thyme, sweet potatoes, coriander, tomatoes and bell peppers, which helps them diversify and enrich their diet with more vitamins and minerals.
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Once rice is harvested and threshed, the grains are bagged into sacks for storage.
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AKF has worked with cacao collector Mr Joma Abdoul Sylvain on upgrading the quality of his cacao beans so that he can sell them at a higher price and improve his family's revenue.
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Mrs Safiata is buying fresh cacao beans from the local farmers. She will ferment and dry them with techniques learnt from AKF that render superior quality beans that sell for a higher price. With the increased revenue from her cacao bean sales, Mrs Safiata has sent her two daughters to study at the University of Antananarivo.
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Madagascar celebrates its Independence Day every 26 June. This is the date in 1960 when its complete independence from France was achieved and recognised. Since 2005 the Aga Khan Development Network has been undertaking development activities in both rural and urban contexts in various parts of the country, working across agriculture, nutrition, climate adaptation, access to finance, improving value chains, and creating market linkages. These photos capture the faces of some of the 82’000 beneficiaries who we’ve reached across the regions of Sofia, Diana and Analamanga.
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