The Foundation has agreed a new partnership with Nuru, a non-profit group that works with communities in fragile, conflict-impacted communities to develop locally-led agricultural cooperatives.
Since 2008, Nuru worked with more than 300 cooperatives across five countries – Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria. Funding from the Trafigura Foundation will allow Nuru to support more cooperatives in Ghana and establish operations in Benin, Niger and Togo.
As well as providing cooperatives with business development services and access to finance and markets, Nuru helps farmers to adopt climate resilient practices and aims to improve their yields and incomes by up to 30%.
Under its 2023–2027 strategy, the Trafigura Foundation is concentrating on long-term partnerships and catalytic funding to achieve its goals, focusing on programmes with region-wide impact in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Specifically, the Foundation aims to contribute to climate adaptation by supporting sustainable livelihoods, prepared communities, and thriving nature. The agreement with Nuru brings to nine the number of new partnerships announced by the Trafigura Foundation within the past year.
