Voices from the field

IFAD in Lesotho: voices from the field

Getting started: The key to increasing household income and food security in Lesotho

Drought, soil erosion and HIV/AIDS have combined to have a devastating impact in Lesotho. Food security is a big problem for most of the population; families struggle to provide for themselves and many rely on food aid. In response, the Lesotho Government’s Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Programme (SANReMP), supported by IFAD, has been successfully working with families in Mafeteng, Mohale’s Hoek and Quthing districts to increase their livestock production and income-generating potential.

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Empowering the sheep and goat farmers of Lesotho and providing them with a more certain future

Farmers in the remote mountain villages of Lesotho rely for their survival on income from the wool and mohair of their sheep and goats. Many of them travel long distances to have their animals sheared, often risking the health of their livestock and reducing the quality of the wool and mohair. The Lesotho Government’s Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Programme (SANReMP), financed by IFAD, provides support through training and improved woolshed facilities to these farmers, enabling them to reduce the distances they travel and obtain higher-quality wool and mohair for sale.

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Starting the fight against land degradation: A war Lesotho cannot afford to lose

Travelling through the Lesotho countryside, one can’t help but notice that severe erosion scars the landscape. Vast areas of once fertile fields have been reduced to unproductive wasteland because of poor land management over many years. Realizing that something had to be done to protect their future, the Chief and villagers of Ha Mosala in Mafeteng district have started notable efforts to reverse the effects of land degradation, with support from the Lesotho Government’s Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Programme (SANReMP), financed by IFAD.

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Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Programme

Government of Lesotho and IFAD join hands to improve household food security and nutrition status of the rural poor people in the three mountain of Lesotho.

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Improving quality and incomes for sheep and goat farmers in Lesotho

In the rugged terrain of Lesotho’s uplands, farmers raise sheep and goats for their wool, supplying an important national industry and providing a major export. But without information, better organization and basic infrastructure, small-scale sheep and goat farmers are unable to lift themselves out of a subsistence existence and obtain better prices for their wool. In addition to building woolsheds in remote areas, an IFAD-funded programme is training farmers in improved animal health as well as care and management of the grasslands their herds feed on. Thanks to these inputs, farmers should soon be getting substantially better prices for their wool in the marketplace.

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