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Rapport
Stories of change: connecting traditional knowledge and innovations for fair and sustainable food systems

The Family Farming Knowledge Platform in collaboration with the Barefoot Guide Connection organized a series of “writeshops”, writing classes to support practitioners to write their own experience, generating knowledge which highlight the practices, changes, innovations and impacts of what they do in support of family farming. These writeshops represented an opportunity...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Egypt - Ghana - India - Kenya - Nepal - Poland - Timor-Leste - Uganda - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Article de blog
Murang’a County Government Enacts An Agroecology Policy And ACT

Murang'a County Government, in collaboration with the Institute for Culture and Ecology (ICE) and other partners, has enacted The Murang'a Agroecology Policy 2022-2032 and The Murang'a County Agroecology Development Act, 2022. The Act encourages the use of organic farming practices and the production of organic products. The county recognizes that...
Kenya
2023

Article
Assessment of community perceptions and risk to common zoonotic diseases among communities living at the human-livestock-wildlife interface in Nakuru West, Kenya: A participatory epidemiology approach

Zoonoses account for most of the emerging and re-emerging infections in Kenya and in other low to medium-income countries across the world. The human-livestock-wildlife interface provides a nexus where transmission and spread of these zoonotic diseases could occur among communities farming in these areas. We sought to identify perceptions of...
Kenya
2023

Note/document d'orientation
Women and Girls at the Intersection of Climate Change and Economic Empowerment

The impacts of climate change are far from uniform. Women and girls experience climate change and its effects differently than men and boys.4 Women’s experiences related to climate change further intersect with geography, race, political context, socioeconomic status, access to opportunity, and right to own assets or capital.5 In this brief,...
Kenya
2023 - International Center for Research on Women

Article de blog
Drought in Kenya: millions of dollars did not save pastoralists

Across the arid landscape of northern Kenya, road signs proclaim projects aimed at building 'resilience' among pastoral communities. This is a region where frequent droughts, animal diseases, insecurity and structural exclusion affect all pastoral livelihoods.Resilience - the ability to transform or recover quickly from challenges - is the idea behind...
Kenya
2023

Article de blog
Meet Mary an exemplary Kenyan coffee farmer

Mary Wairimu Oloo, who lives in Kenya’s Trans Nzoia County, moved back to her family’s coffee farm after retiring from a government role. Since then she has been diligently improving productivity on the farm, diversifying her income and helping others along the way.  Mary Wairimu Oloo is not just a wife...
Kenya
2023 - Solidaridad Network

Article de blog
Agroecology is critical in the wake of climate change - expert

In this article, Francis Shivonje, the Policy and Advocacy National Coordinator for the Biovision Foundation in Kenya, underscores the importance of a National Agroecology Strategy. He highlights that smallholder farms, responsible for 75% of Kenya's agricultural production, are pivotal for both food security and the nation's economic stability. Agroecology, by...
Kenya
2023

Article de blog
‘During droughts, pivot to agroecology’: Q&A with soil expert at the World Agroforestry Centre

As the drought in Kenya persists, pastoralists in the region are struggling as millions of livestock die and vast swaths of crops perish. Food insecurity affects approximately 4.4 million people in the country. International food agencies have described the situation as a dire humanitarian crisis, emphasizing the critical need to...
Kenya
2023

Article de blog
The sound and vision of organic farming for rural audiences: Webinar dedicated to media houses

A webinar titled ‘The sound and vision of organic farming for rural audiences’ was held by Access Agriculture on 14th March for the English-speaking audience. For the French-speaking audience, a webinar on the same theme, titled ‘Le son et la vision de l’agriculture biologique pour les audiences rurales’ was held...
Kenya
2023 - Access Agriculture

Vidéos
Livelihoods Mt Elgon project

The Livelihoods Mt Elgon project aims at improving the livelihoods of 30,000 small-holder farmers by empowering farmers with sustainable agricultural practices including agroforestry, and establishing connections to markets through 15 cooperatives. The project is a partnership between Livelihoods Fund, Vi Agroforestry and Brookside Dairy. The project will lead to: -...
Kenya
2023 - Livelihoods Fund, Vi Agroforestry and Brookside Dairy

Pratiques
Hanging vegetable gardens

Hanging vegetable gardens is an easy to implement practice allowing to grow healthy vegetables with no land and little inputs. Hence, it is very suitable for low-income families, slum dwellers, the landless, women who often have poor access to land and need to stay close to their homes, as well...
Kenya
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA

Article de blog
Creating shared value for maize smallholders in Kenya

In June, Solidaridad launched a four-year food and nutrition security and climate-resilience project funded by the Louis Dreyfus Foundation to drive sustainable maize production in Bungoma County, Kenya.
Kenya
2022 - Solidaridad

Vidéos
Making cassava snacks

Cassava should have a clean, fresh scent and a pure white center when cut open. Fresh roots also have a pleasant taste.When using bitter cassava, ferment the peeled roots for 3 days to leach out the poison cyanide, Then wash the roots.
Kenya
2022 - Access Agriculture

Fiche d'information
Identikit of the East African youth agripreneur in the digital space

Food and Agricultural Organization’s Integrated Country Approach for boosting decent jobs for youth in agrifood systems carried out a digital readiness assessment of youth in agribusiness in partnership with the Eastern Africa Farmers Federation and youth-led organizations in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda.  Over 360 young male and female entrepreneurs engaged through...
Kenya - Rwanda - Uganda
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Article de blog
''Learning by doing - how family farming as a child shaped my life''

I grew up in a place known as Kabazi, Subukia Constituency and Nakuru County in Kenya. As a child of a family farming household, I had to participate in farming activities alongside my education. The family depended on its member’s labour to be able to provide adequate and nutritious food...
Kenya
2022 - Barefoot Guide Connection, Agroecology Knowledge Hub and Family Farming Knowledge Platform.

Note/document d'orientation
The changing nature of Kenya’s seed industry sectors

Lessons from the potato seed sector industry
In this paper, we discuss the changes taking place in the Kenyan seed sector, with a focus on potato. The changes paint an extremely disturbing picture of how draconian agricultural and seed laws and policies are undermining smallholder farmers and their seed and food systems.
Kenya
2022 - African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB)

Article de blog
Farmers turn to indigenous seed banks as Kenya restricts informal trade

Despite the fact that the latest IPCC report recognized "African indigenous knowledge systems" as smart adaptation strategies against worsening climate change, this article argues that smallholder farmers who have benefited from planting their indigenous seeds are under threat from the government's law, which has placed restrictions on the informal seed...
Kenya
2022

Rapport
Creating resilient livelihoods for youth in small-scale food production

A collection of projects to support young people in achieving sustainable and resilient livelihoods and food security
This publication showcases initiatives that have been successfully implemented to help youth build resilience in the agrifood system, despite the severe consequences of climate change and formidable social and economic challenges. It aims to inspire potential policies and programmes by portraying key needs, challenges and initiatives, as well as lessons...
Afghanistan - Brazil - Colombia - Ecuador - El Salvador - Guatemala - Honduras - Kenya - Madagascar - Senegal - Thailand - Uganda
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Comptes rendus de conférence
Establishing a Biocultural Heritage Territory to protect Kenya's Kaya forests: Darwin project workshop report

Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI), in collaboration with IIED, is implementing the project ‘Establishing a Biocultural Heritage Territory to protect Kenya’s Kaya forests’ in the Rabai Mijikenda community. Rabai sub-county forms part of the Coastal Forests global biodiversity hotspot, currently under threat. The project aims to conserve biodiversity and genetic resources...
Kenya
2022 - International Institute for Environment and Development

Ouvrage
Review of existing legislation to protect pollinators from pesticides in selected countries

Honeybees (Apis mellifera), wild bees, and other pollinators can be adversely affected by pesticides as well as other stressors, with potentially large economic and ecological consequences. Legislation is one possible tool which can be used to support actions to protect pollinators from pesticides. Several documents have been published at the...
Australia - China - Dominica - Ireland - Kenya - Niger - Rwanda - Saint Lucia - Samoa - Solomon Islands - United Republic of Tanzania - United States of America - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2022 - FAO
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