In collaborations with UN agencies and NGOs community, GCAF will embedded farmers training within their food security and livelihoods programs, which seeks to establish agriculture, sherries and animal health as a viable and respectable profession in the communities to overcome extreme hunger and poverty.

GCAF will mobilize, enumerate, recruit and train community households’ members on utilizing thousands of acres of agricultural farmland in Greater Equatorial and Greater Upper Nile States, with each household utilizing an average of 1.5 acres. The same numbers of households will be provided with emergency response livelihood inputs (seeds, tools and fishing gears) to facilitate production and consumption.

At the community level, large scale farming spaces will be opened up and recipient farmers and facilitators of “Farmer Field Schools – FFS” will have to be trained on food production, post-harvest handling and preservation through gender sensitive trainings. Facilitators who will be trained on sustenance of policies and operational skills that relied on its experience at grassroots level.

The program has to established a knowledge base and data bank through good coordination, monitoring and evaluation mechanisms.

GCAF facilitating lasting change by

Drawing strength from its’ diversity, resources and experience, and promote innovative solutions and advocates for national responsibility by:

• Strengthening capacity for self-reliant, resilience building and sustainable development
• Providing economic opportunities to youth and women in communities.
• Delivering relief aid in emergencies.
• Influencing policy decisions at all levels
• Addressing discrimination and violence in all its forms against women, children or men.
• Peace building and reconciliation and conflicts mitigation.
• Guided by the aspirations of local communities, 
we pursue our mission with both excellence and compassion because the people whom we serve deserve nothing less.

Agriculture

Our Work is aimed at creating agri-food systems in Africa that are resillient, sustainable and equitable and that create work opportunities for young people.