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Cordaid supports the Rural agency for community development and Assistance (RACIDA) to enhance community resilience to disaster risk and climate changes in Mandera County (Kenya) through community managed disaster risk reduction. The project consisted of three components: (i) Water and sanitation (ii) Agricultural input services and livelihood diversification iii) Natural resource management. An intervention related to agricultural input services and livelihood diversification was the provision of four oil seed presses to extract oil from sunflower, simsim seeds and other oil seeds. The filter produces clear and nutritious cooking oil ready for sale or consumption. The goal of this intervention was to reduce the time, transport and processing costs for the farmers since the only oil seed press was 100 km away from the area where the farmers live.

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