More than 325 million people in Africa live on less than $1 a day, with little or no access to clean water, sanitation, quality health care, and other life-sustaining goods. Two-thirds of Africans rely on agriculture for survival, but many African farmers lack access to markets at fair prices, and many also lack access to fertilizer, disease-resistant seeds, and other farming inputs.
Building on President Clinton’s long-standing commitment to Africa, the Clinton Foundation partnered with the Hunter Foundation in 2006 to launch the Clinton Hunter Development Initiative, which is investing $100 million over 10 years to catalyze sustainable economic growth in Africa. CHDI is working in Rwanda and Malawi – at the invitation of these countries’ governments - to strengthen agriculture, develop agri-businesses, and increase access to clean water, quality health care, and education – in ways that can be locally sustained.
PROFILE
Armed with the new agriculture techniques she learned from the Clinton Hunter Development Initiative, Ifijenia Kamtaza, a Malawian soy farmer, is not only improving her harvest and profits – she’s helping her whole family.
