In the long term, Zakat Foundation has partnered since 2017 with Mercy Corps to implement a successful food resilience program with Yemen’s sesame farmer. Each year this program has resulted in at least a 25% higher yield per hectare in Yemen’s staple food crop. The sesame project doesn’t just help farmers grow better and more of the crop. It gives them improved processing methods and ways to convert that sesame into other salable products. It also links them to valuable markets to sell it all in and supports the farmers in partnering with others to increase the value of their harvest. To augment the sesame cultivation, Zakat Foundation donors have purchased solar- and fuel-powered generators, which has doubled sesame cooking oil presser production from the producers we sponsor, increasing farmer and processor incomes and food availability for people.