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. The project will train smallholder farmers in organic and environmentally sustainable agricultural methods with the long-term aim of achieving self-sustainability. Trainings will 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 will directly train 500 farmers, including 375 female farmers; additionally, GBIACK estimates that each farmer will train their immediate family members and at least two other community members, expanding the project’s reach to an estimated 3,500 indirect beneficiaries. Annually renewable project.
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. The project will train smallholder farmers in organic and environmentally sustainable agricultural methods with the long-term aim of achieving self-sustainability. Trainings will 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 will directly train 500 farmers, including 375 female farmers; additionally, GBIACK estimates that each farmer will train their immediate family members and at least two other community members, expanding the project’s reach to an estimated 3,500 indirect beneficiaries. Annually renewable project.
