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Agriculture and Food Security

FUELING AND FEEDING COMMUNITIES

Luisa Chiquede, a beneficiary of the Yambasu Agriculture Initiative in Massinga, Mozambique, proudly shows her harvested cassava root, a particularly valuable product in Mozambique.

Photo: Courtesy of Blair Moses Karmanga

Global Ministries helps communities improve their food security through agricultural training and capacity building. Through the Yambasu Agriculture Initiative (YAI), named for the late Bishop John K. Yambasu of Sierra Leone, we work with United Methodist annual conferences and episcopal areas in Africa to lead agricultural projects that build self-sustaining communities.

Project Examples

  • expanded growth of crops such as maize, cassava and rice;
  • cultivating seed projects to expand future crop output;
  • honey and secondary product sales;
  • and poultry, rabbit and piggery projects, among others.
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Our Impact

Learn more about the scope of our agriculture and food security work in 2024.

1,446

Lives directly touched through YAI

10

Grants awarded totaling $1.8 million

10

Countries with active YAI projects

Participants

Sierra Leone Episcopal Area

Liberia Episcopal Area

Côte d’Ivoire Central Conference

Côte d’Ivoire Methodist Church

Mid-Africa Central Conference

South, Central, North Katanga and East episcopal areas

Angola Episcopal Area

East and West episcopal areas

Zimbabwe Episcopal Area

East and West conferences

Mozambique Episcopal Area

South and North conferences

Nigeria Episcopal Area

Central and Northeast conferences

Read Stories
of Impact

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Agriculture, health focus for Africa University-Global Ministries’ partnership

Africa University and Global Ministries partner to support vital agriculture and public health initiatives put at risk after withdrawal of international aid.
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Agriculture, health focus for Africa University-Global Ministries’ partnership

Africa University and Global Ministries partner to support vital agriculture and public health initiatives put at risk after withdrawal of international aid.
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Quéssua agriculture ministry provides food for thousands

Agriculture missionary Kutela Katembo Dieudonne manages farming and animal husbandry projects that feed children and provide seedlings to villagers.
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Quéssua agriculture ministry provides food for thousands

Agriculture missionary Kutela Katembo Dieudonne manages farming and animal husbandry projects that feed children and provide seedlings to villagers.
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Greenhouses enrich lives at church mission

With support from the Yambasu Agriculture Initiative, two greenhouses at Zimbabwe’s Hanwa Mission are helping to fight climate change and grow education at the mission’s schools.
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Greenhouses enrich lives at church mission

With support from the Yambasu Agriculture Initiative, two greenhouses at Zimbabwe’s Hanwa Mission are helping to fight climate change and grow education at the mission’s schools.
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