The work

Fulani Kitchen Foundation

The Fulani Kitchen Foundation works with women fonio farmers in Northern Ghana — strengthening food security, protecting an indigenous opportunity crop, and building climate-resilient African food systems, one community at a time.

What we do

Farming, food, and enterprise

We partner with women fonio farmers to improve cultivation, processing, and access to market — and we invest directly in the women themselves, through education, skills training, and income-generating enterprises.

A large group of women stand together in a field, facing the camera. A group of women together, sorting colorful woven cloths by hand.
Why it matters

Food security, and a grain worth remembering

Fonio is one of Africa's original opportunity crops — climate-resilient, indigenous, and nearly lost from the plate it once fed. Reviving it means food security for the communities who grow it, and a stronger, more resilient African food system for everyone downstream of it.

A tent laid with patterned rugs and low tables ahead of a dinner, a banner reading Millets visible at the back.
Who we impact

300+ families, 12 communities

More than 300 families across 12 communities in four regions of Northern Ghana — the women who farm, process, and carry fonio's story forward.

Get involved

Partner, support, or collaborate

Every enquiry is read and answered by Chef Binta's team directly.

The film

The work, up close

FAO Ghana, on the training programme with the women fonio farmers of Cherreponi.

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Chef Fatmata Binta

Chef Fatmata Binta is an award-winning chef, founder of the Fulani Kitchen Foundation, and FAO Regional Goodwill Ambassador for Africa.

In 2022, she made history as the first African chef to win the Basque Culinary World Prize.

Chef Fatmata Binta