Kiringai Kamau

Kiringai Kamau

Organization VACID Africa
Organization type Civil Society Organization/NGO
Organization role
Founder and Value Chain Analyst
Country Kenya
Area of Expertise
1. Agribusiness
2. Agricultural Value Chains
3. ICT for Agriculture
4. Development Economics
6. Organizational Development

Kiringai Kamau is a Social Entrepreneur. He founded VACID Africa as an Africa Wide Capacity Building initiative that promotes networking among development institutions, workers and partners.

The delivery of his work involved close collaboration with Governments, Research institutions and Academia.

Kiringai believes in incubation of viable ideas into enterprises, the creation of value addition efforts into what communities do, the infusion of ICT in the weighing during agriculgural produce collection using electronic scales to ensure producers are not cheated at the critical point that determines how much they eventually earn. He believes in creating network of producers to support produce aggregation to ensure effective and beneficial engagement with market actors.

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Forum Introduction

Introduce Yourself- Welcome and Introductions

Submitted by Kiringai Kamau on Mon, 12/07/2009 - 13:35
My name is Kiringai Kamau. I work as a development consultant in the Agricultural sector. I promote the adoption of ICTs as the basis of assisting smallholder farmers engage in market oriented agriculture to tap the power of ICTs in promoting governance in the management of collective action initiatives for produce aggregation and wealth creation. Our institutional focus has promoted communities to see the possibility of them i9nvesting in ICT and ICT supported institutional infrastructure via sustainable agricultural enterprises that scale through the entire value chain.
Forum Introduce Yourself

About Myself

Submitted by Kiringai Kamau on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 05:52
My name is Kiringai Kamau, an e-agriculture enthusiast. I am the Founder and Chairman of VACID Africa, an Africa-wide Value Addition and Cottage Industry Development initaitive. I am also a Value Chains Analyst and Consultant. I believe that the solution to sustainable wealth creation for enhancing the livelhoods of grassroots communities is the non-tampered e-weighment of agricultural produce and delivery of the e-weighed produce to processing and marketing institutions that are owned by grassroots communities.

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