This project with BGR partner the Grow Biointensive Agriculture Centre of Kenya (G-BIACK) has been created to address food insecurity and malnutrition and to raise the income of poor farmers in parts of Kiambu and Machakos Counties, areas that are predominantly inhabited by the Kikuyu and Kamba tribal communities, respectively. Building on previous BGR–G-BIACK partnerships, the project is training smallholder farmers in organic and environmentally sustainable agricultural methods with the long-term aim of achieving self-sustainability. Trainings focus on the cultivation of short-maturing drought-resistant crops, reclamation of species of indigenous foods, and soil fertility management. Farmers will also learn methods of seed-saving, rainwater harvesting, and tree farming. The project is directly training 500 farmers, including 325 women; additionally, G-BIACK asks that each project participant in turn train 4 neighbors, expanding the project’s reach to an estimated 2,000 farm families.
This project with BGR partner the Grow Biointensive Agriculture Centre of Kenya (G-BIACK) has been created to address food insecurity and malnutrition and to raise the income of poor farmers in parts of Kiambu and Machakos Counties, areas that are predominantly inhabited by the Kikuyu and Kamba tribal communities, respectively. Building on previous BGR–G-BIACK partnerships, the project is training smallholder farmers in organic and environmentally sustainable agricultural methods with the long-term aim of achieving self-sustainability. Trainings focus on the cultivation of short-maturing drought-resistant crops, reclamation of species of indigenous foods, and soil fertility management. Farmers will also learn methods of seed-saving, rainwater harvesting, and tree farming. The project is directly training 500 farmers, including 325 women; additionally, G-BIACK asks that each project participant in turn train 4 neighbors, expanding the project’s reach to an estimated 2,000 farm families.
