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The Agroecology Transition: Different pathways to a single destination - Eight country experiences
Agroecology is a transdisciplinary, participatory, and action-oriented approach for co-designing options that enhance food system resilience, equity, and sustainability. Working in eight countries of the Global South, the CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology seeks effective ways to put this approach into practice. In each country, the Initiative concentrates on one or...
Burkina Faso - India - Kenya - Lao People's Democratic Republic - Peru - Senegal - Tunisia - Zimbabwe
2023 - CGIAR
Article
Spatial changes to climatic suitability and availability of agropastoral farming systems across Kenya (1980–2020)
Productive global agriculture is under a convergence of pressures, and particularly climate change and population growth. The impact is especially stark in East Africa where crop production is mostly rain-fed and population growth rates are among the highest in the world. Our objective for this study was to understand how...
Kenya
2023
Article de blog
Busia farmers Embrace Agro-ecological Farming
Farmers in Busia County have partnered with Kilimo Hai, an agriculture organization, to adopt agro-ecological farming practices using organic fertilizers made from animal waste and rabbit urine as pesticides. This transition has been motivated by the high cost of conventional farming inputs and the need for sustainable ecosystem management and...
Kenya
2023
Rapport
Climate-adaptive capacities and livelihood strategies under a prolonged drought
Baseline findings and policy implications for community-based support in Isiolo, Kenya
The “Building back better and greener: Integrated approaches for an inclusive and green COVID-19 recovery in rural spaces” project aims to: (a) build the capacity of key stakeholders in the provision of advisory and extension services; (b) integrate social protection interventions with complementary services on climate-adaptive agriculture and sustainable livestock...
Kenya
2023 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Article de blog
Framework elevates monitoring for nature-based solutions + restoration in Makueni, Kenya
In early May of 2023, the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) conducted an in-field training on its Land Degradation Surveillance Framework (LDSF) methodology for Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) monitoring in Makueni County, Kenya.
The four-days training formed part of a broader project to promote NbS for...
Kenya
2023 - World Agroforestry
Rapport
The gendered impacts of COVID-19 in Kenya, the Niger, Rwanda, and Uganda
Evidence from phone surveys
To identify and monitor the differential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on women and men in rural households, IFPRI conducted phone surveys in selected regions of the four focal countries, with financial and technical support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The surveys traced gender...
Kenya - Niger - Rwanda - Uganda
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Article
Family Farmers in Kenya Replace Expensive Fertilizer with Cover Crops; aka, “Green Manure”
Fertilizer prices driven by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine led a number of farmers around the world to consider or reconsider non-chemical alternatives. For some years now, family farmers in Kenya’s Kisumu area have replaced chemical fertilizers with organic ones. Organic fertilizers do more than cut input costs and increase resilience...
Kenya
2023
Article de blog
Unlocking finance for African smallholder farmers
A major meeting this week brought together farmers, bankers, governments and development partners from across Africa and beyond to discuss ways to ensure smallholder farmers, the backbone of the region’s food system, have access to the finance they need to improve and scale up sustainable forest and farm management practices.
The...
Kenya
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Article
Building subnational capacities in animal health to deliver frontline cross-sectoral health services in Kenya
Operationalizing effective subnational veterinary services as major contributor to disease surveillance, reporting, diagnoses and One Health requires resources and mindset change. Here we describe workforce capacity building in animal health in Kenya and an approach that can be used to skill-up this workforce to respond beyond animal health challenges to...
Kenya
2023 - Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Partie de rapport
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
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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
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
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