Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Resilience
Our agriculture programs equip smallholder farmers with climate-smart farming techniques that increase productivity, ensure food security, and protect the environment. We promote agroecology, organic farming, indigenous knowledge, and sustainable land use. We work with both men and women farmers to ensure they adapt to climate change and build resilient livelihoods.
“Specific objective 1
To empower 81% of 917 farmers in Bungoma and Trans-Nzoia counties with relevant technology, knowledge and skills that will enable them practice sustainable agriculture by 2025.”
Strategic Goal
To improve knowledge and skills on sustainable agricultural practices for food sovereignty, income and marketing
- Mobilization and awareness creation on group formation and dynamics
- Conduct trainings on compositing
- Train groups on tillage practices, seed selection and savings, farm management and IPM
- Practice training farmer groups on post-harvest handling including harvesting, grading, drying preservation and storage
- Conduct residential sustainable agriculture workshops
- Establish satellite demonstration plots
- Conduct staff capacity building, exposure training in relevant fields to improve their performance
- Carry out Exchange programs for farmer groups for exposure to enable learn from successful enterprises
- Conduct monthly, quarterly and bi-annual monitoring
Expected outcome
- Increased food security & health status
- Increase organic farming
- Improved food production and marketing
- Soil loss reduction
- Soil loss reduction
- Community members practice sustainable agriculture
“Specific Objective 2: To empower the target farmers with relevant knowledge and skills that will enable them access market, sell produce and have diversified sources of income by 2025.”
- Training groups on marketing
- Conduct market participatory researchTraining groups on marketing
- Carry out farmer participatory research
- Carry out entrepreneurial selection training
- Cost benefit analysis, formation production and disciplinary committee, business plan and regular follow ups
- Recruit Community animators
- Collect significant stories
- Establish cooperatives for farmers
- Conduct capacity building for microfinance groups
- Produce quarterly news letter
Activities
- Farmer groups sell their products to identified markets and earn income
- Poverty reduction