One Acre Fund organization’s Communications Specialist Karigu Ekumbo speaks to the press at Kakamega Agricultural show on Friday.Image: CALISTUS LUCHETU An agriculture-based organization in Kakamega has cited farmer training as a crucial component that would transform the agricultural sector in the country. While addressing the media on Friday during the Kakamega agricultural show organized by ...

Esther Kimani. Image Courtesy: Royal Academy of Engineering Esther Kimani is the third woman and the second Kenyan innovator to win the Africa Prize, receiving £50,000 Her tool reduces crop losses for smallholder farmers by up to 30% while increasing yields by as much as 40% The Africa Prize has supported almost 150 entrepreneurs  across ...

Treasury Cabinet Secretary Njuguna Ndung’u presented the 2024/25 Budget in Parliament. Kenyan farmers are among the big winners in the just-released 2024-2025 budget that was read yesterday by the National Treasury. This follows the sector receiving an allocation of Sh54.6 billion, according to the estimates read by Treasury Cabinet Secretary Njuguna Ndung’u on Thursday. This ...

The Gender Climate Change and Agriculture Support Programme (GCCASP) of AUDA-NEPAD is helping in addressing policy and institutional gaps, building skills and capacities, amplifying women’s voices, and scaling innovative Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) practices. This is to foster a response to the climate change issue. The program is helping to build capacities of female smallholder ...

Crops in Kenya destroyed by floods. Photo: Tony Malesi The heavy rainfall and floods that have been battering East Africa since March have submerged thousands of acres of croplands and killed thousands of livestock, leaving the region vulnerable to an imminent food shortage, according to experts. Alongside the loss of life, the agricultural devastation is ...

By OTIENO OTIENO Kenya’s Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mithika Linturi was one of the controversial inclusions in President William Ruto’s first Cabinet announced on September 27, 2022. A former MP and senator who had lost his bid to be a county governor in the August 2022 elections, he was one of two Cabinet nominees then battling criminal ...

Tanzania and Kenya have successfully resolved a longstanding dispute over the export of poultry and poultry products between the two countries, the East African Community (EAC) said in a statement on Tuesday. The statement said the dispute was resolved during a two-day consultative meeting held at the EAC headquarters in Tanzania’s northern city of Arusha ...

The African Union Commission and Government of the Republic of Kenya signed a host- agreement ahead of the Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health Summit to be held in Nairobi Kenya from 7 to 9 May 2024. The host agreement was signed by H.E Amb. Josefa Sacko on behalf of the African Union Commission and H.E ...

Farmers sort out climate-smart beans in Machakos, Kenya. (Andrew Kasuku, AP) From ancient fertilizer methods to new greenhouse technology, farmers across the heavily agriculture-reliant African continent are exploring ways to respond to climate change From ancient fertilizer methods in Zimbabwe to new greenhouse technology in Somalia, farmers across the heavily agriculture-reliant African continent are looking ...

KENYA: around 8,000 tonnes of organic fertiliser to support sustainable agriculture©Miaron Billy/Shutterstock One of the challenges facing small-scale farmers in Kenya is access to finance and agricultural inputs. The new Fertiliser Financing for Sustainable Agriculture Project, implemented by Kenyan agritech Apollo Agriculture, will see 7,928 tonnes of organic fertiliser supplied to 106,000 smallholder farmers by ...