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 through environmentally sustainable agricultural methods. Responding to a crisis of soil degradation in the project areas in central Kenya, G-BIACK will teach farmers growing methods to reclaim depleted soil while facilitating the cultivation of short-duration cash and food crops that will provide the greatest improvement to their food security and livelihoods. By providing locally available crops and trees such as acacia, Croton megalocarpus, and water pear, the project will mitigate dependence on maize (corn) as the primary source of income for local farmers, allowing them to save more maize for consumption and sell cash crops for other needs, such as education for school-going children and supplemental food for the family. The project will provide training to 500 new farmers, 450 of whom are women. Existing partner, new 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 through environmentally sustainable agricultural methods. Responding to a crisis of soil degradation in the project areas in central Kenya, G-BIACK will teach farmers growing methods to reclaim depleted soil while facilitating the cultivation of short-duration cash and food crops that will provide the greatest improvement to their food security and livelihoods. By providing locally available crops and trees such as acacia, Croton megalocarpus, and water pear, the project will mitigate dependence on maize (corn) as the primary source of income for local farmers, allowing them to save more maize for consumption and sell cash crops for other needs, such as education for school-going children and supplemental food for the family. The project will provide training to 500 new farmers, 450 of whom are women. Existing partner, new project.
