VIDEO: The FarmQuest Project: Diakaridia Fomba

VIDEO: The FarmQuest Project: Diakaridia Fomba

Breeding and raising poultry in the hamlet of Dien Fomba

Diakaridia Fomba lives in the Malian hamlet of Dien Fomba. He left home on his 20s for the city but now he’s come home to stay. While relatively successful at various jobs, he eventually realized his future was back on home developing his farming skills. “I’m a born farmer,” says Fomba. “Thankfully, it allows me to help

The FarmQuest Project: Salimata Traoré

The FarmQuest Project: Salimata Traoré

Building confidence, and growing a market garden, in the village of Wakoro

Salimata Traoré is a young woman anxious to build a future as a professional market gardener. In the past, she has grown a garden on a small scale, but now Traoré wants to grow on a larger scale. It won’t be easy. Some of the difficulties Traoré faced in the past were access to seeds and traveling to neighbouring


A young African woman

The FarmQuest Project: Kafuné Mariko

A gift of goats to grow a herd to call her own

Raising goats on her own for the first time is the opportunity presented to Kafuné Mariko. At 20 years old, Mariko is the youngest candidate in the Daba Kamalen project, but she learned at a young age how to care for animals. Having no goats of her own, Mariko’s local advisor gave her a gift of two

Keeping young people on the farm — in Mali

A 'radio reality' series on a local radio station aims to convince young Africans that farming can be a profitable career

It’s a worldwide challenge — convincing young people that farming can be a profitable and rewarding career. In Mali, a rural radio station is taking on the challenge through a contest developed along with Farm Radio International, a Canadian organization that works with more than 500 radio stations broadcasting to millions of farmers in Sub-Saharan