The Aga Khan Foundation has been working with the Agrarian Institute of Bilibiza at the Ocua Campus to help internally displaced people identify new sources of food and income. Micro-aviaries and poultry associations are one such project.
An innovative project implemented by the Aga Khan Foundation and HELVETAS in the country’s rural south is helping farmers to focus on the quality over the quantity of their cattle, improving the sustainability of agricultural land.
Gilgit-Baltistan forest and wildlife secretary Sumair Ahmad Syed inaugurated the Solar Lift Irrigation Block Plantation Project during a special ceremony in Jutal in Pakistan.
With support from the innocent foundation, the Aga Khan Foundation is implementing SPEEDRICE, a three-year project that seeks to fight hunger and enhance food security amongst vulnerable households in Madagascar by introducing the Zanatany Rice Permaculture System.
Scientists at the University of Central Asia have identified common beans – which often require sufficient irrigation to grow – that can adapt to harsh climatic conditions and provide mountainous communities a reliable source of nutrition during the lean season.
Rakesh Gupta, a 62-year-old beekeeper from Lucknow in India, travels with his beehive-boxes across the country. He migrates with them to orchards in Kashmir, the coasts of Gujarat, the high altitudes of Himachal Pradesh, to Uttarakhand and to Rajasthan.
Last month a new water supply project was inaugurated in Pashor village of Shugnan district by the GBAO Governor, representatives of the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) Tajikistan and community members.
Michael Kocher, General Manager of the Aga Khan Foundation, speaks about how responsible stewardship of the environment is central to the Network’s mission to improve the quality of life and well-being of the poorest and most vulnerable in society; and how programmes are shifting to reflect the future goal of carbon neutrality.
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Tajikistan Office jointly with the Aga Khan Foundation in Tajikistan (AKF) distributed quality agriculture inputs to the farmers in the Khatlon region in the frame of Pilot Project for Agribusiness Development in Tajikistan, funded by JICA and imp