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News and events

Life on the edge: reducing vulnerability in Kenya
The Eden Project, Cornwall, plus venues in the UK and Europe, 2007-8
Life on the Edge is a stunning new photographic exhibition exploring the vulnerability of rural communities in Kenya. Life on the Edge exposes the failures of international aid and examines how targeted support can transform the lives of some of the poorest people in the country.

MEPs urge better aid action for African farmers
MEPs Fiona Hall and Linda McAvan travelled to Kenya in October 2006 to meet small-scale farmers and challenge top government and European Commission officials to make sure European aid gets to those who need it the most.
Read Linda McAvan and Fiona Hall's day-by-day accounts of their trip.

Is Europe failing Africa's farmers? Voices from Africa's rural communities
Edinburgh International Conference Centre, 22 November 2005
A breakfast fringe meeting at the 10th session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, where representatives from Small-Scale Farmers' Forums in Kenya and Zambia spoke about the difficulties they face and presented their views on how European aid can be made more effective.

Aid for Africa – Will it reach farmers, will it power development?
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, 4 July 2005
In the run up to the G8 summit, and as part of the Make Poverty History campaign, Practical Action held a conference in Edinburgh to explore how aid and development funding can be used more effectively to rapidly reduce poverty in Africa, covering two topics, agriculture and energy.

Make Hunger History
Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh, 2 July 2005
At this event in Edinburgh ahead of the G8 summit, farmers from Asia, Africa and the UK looked at how the policies of the UK Government, EU and intergovernmental bodies like the World Trade Organisation must change in order to stop the destruction of the livelihoods of small-scale farmers and other food producers.