Eastern Africa
The Eastern African countries where Terra Nuova worked or is now working are Somalia/Somaliland, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Currently the activities are focused in Kenya and Somalia/Somaliland. Terra Nuova is active in the area since 1979. Its office is situated in Nairobi, Kenya.
Different ecosystems exist side by side in Eastern Africa: the Somalia and Northern Kenya arid lands, inhabited by nomadic communities; the Kenya fertile plateau, where the population lives thanks to subsistence farming; the savannahs between Kenya and Tanzania borders, where pastoral communities have shared the land for million of years with the most concentrated wild fauna of the world.
Terra Nuova main intervention fields are rural development, the promotion of small enterprise and the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources. Terra Nuova intervenes in the area in order to support the principal economic activities of the respective communities.
Terra Nuova inSomalia/Somaliland