Vi Agroforestry is a Swedish non-profit foundation established in 1983 that works with local organizations in East Africa to empower smallholder farmers through sustainable agriculture and agroforestry practices. Its mission is to fight poverty and climate change by building the resilience of smallholder farmer families through land management techniques while enhancing biodiversity and climate change mitigation. It focuses on farmer families, especially women, youth, and children, who experience food insecurity and the effects of climate change.

1. Photo: Robin Asselmayer
Vi Agroforestry for Inclusive,Sustainable Food Systems
Diana Njihia

2. Vi Agroforestry is a Swedish non-profit foundation established in 1983.
We work with local partner organizations in East Africa, mainly in
Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to empower smallholders’ farmers and
their organizations to improving their living conditions.
Vi Agroforestry has 40 years of experience in promoting agroforestry,
sustainable agriculture, human rights-based approaches, gender
equality, and empowerment of women, men, youth, and children.
Who we are

3. Vision A sustainable environment that
enables women and men living in
poverty to improve their lives
Vision and Mandate

4. Mission : To fight poverty and climate change –
together. Empowering smallholder farmer
families socially and economically, building
their resilience while enhancing
biodiversity and climate change mitigation
through sustainable agricultural land
management, including agroforestry.
Vision and Mandate

5. • Smallholder farmer families – with a special focus on
women, youth and children living in a situation of poverty.
We target farmer families who are likely to have limited
access to productive resources and opportunities, and
who experience food insecurity and the effects of climate
change.
Target Groups

6. • Promotes Agroforestry and Other sustainable
Agricultural Land Management Practices that include
nutrient management, soil and water conservation,
Agronomic practices, integrated livestock
management, integrated pest management, tillage
and residue management, energy conservation
restoration and rehabilitation
Key Programme Methodology

7. • Human rights-based approach (HRBA)
• Gender transformative approach
• Leave no one behind
• Conflict sensitive approach
• Anti-corruption
• Enabling civic space
• Local to global advocacy
• Multi-stakeholder engagement
Approaches to development work

8. 1. Core partner:
These are the small holder member-based farmers’
organisations. The membership in these organisations enables
the reach to the grassroots. The focus here is to strengthen the
capacity of these organisations to engage duty bearers, while at
the same time having the ability to provide a support system to
the members.
Types of partners in Vi agroforestry

9. 2. Technical Partners: These are organisations that might not
necessarily be member based but have specialised capacity and
skills that could be a gap for the core partners.
3. Strategic Partners: These are regional bodies, research
organisations, universities, peer organisations, among others that
are relevant to our working areas. Vi Agroforestry is keen on
strengthening alliances and building relationships that make it
efficient to jointly act such as codesigning interventions for bigger
impact.

10. OUR FUTURE

11. Agrobiodiversity on farm

12. https://viagroforestry.org/
More Information & Contacts

13. Thank you!