Who we are:

Minette Batters – Minette is President of the National Farmers' Union (NFU). She runs a tenanted family farm in Wiltshire and is a Farm Africa Ambassador.

David Exwood – David is Vice President of the NFU. David farms with his wife and two sons over 1200 tenanted hectares in the heart of the Sussex Weald.

Frederic Exwood – Fred farms with his father David and older brother Tom, south of Horsham in West Sussex.

Adam Bedford – Adam is NFU Regional Director North East. He has run for Farm Africa twice before and visited Farm Africa's work in Tanzania and Kenya.

David Fouracre – David is Lead Spatial Analyst at Defra. He has an interest in conservation, wildlife epidemiology and land management.

Farm Africa

Today, over half of the world’s extreme poor live in sub-Saharan Africa. The vast majority work in agriculture.

Farm Africa reduces poverty in eastern Africa by helping farmers grow more, sell more and sell for more.

Working in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Farm Africa is growing agriculture, protecting the environment and developing businesses in rural areas.

Here's how your sponsorship could help:

• £5 could help to buy 10kg of forage seeds, so that farmers can grow food for their livestock.
• £11 could provide training to one woman in high-quality coffee production in Uganda.
• £16 could help to pay for a farmer to hire help to bring in his harvest.
• £22 could help to establish a forest product enterprise.
• £60 is enough to buy two local female goats for pastoralist women in Ethiopia.
• £100 could help to provide two farmers with the means to start a beekeeping business, including a hive, beekeeping equipment and a bee colony.

Thank you so much in advance for our kind support and generous donation. Together, we can build resilient and brighter futures for farming families across eastern Africa.

You can find out more about Farm Africa’s work at www.farmafrica.org