Archives for Covid-19
Lucerne Farming In Kenya; A Crop With Plenty Of Cash Streams
Lucerne (Medicago sativa) is leguminous fodder crop with high yield under optimum growing conditions. Mainly grown for hay making but made into silage during unfavourable conditions for hay making. Lucerne…
Get Inspired: How This Young Poultry Farmer Kept Afloat During Lockdown
One of the few industries that has kept going since the beginning of the coronavirus lockdown is the agricultural industry. The need for their supply to supermarkets has not decreased…
Western Kenya farmer find export markets and fortunes in herb and spice farming
In Siaya County of Western Kenya, a farming revolution is taking shape, chaperoned by a former civil servant who has transformed swathes of traditionally unfarmed land into an oasis of…
The effects of COVID-19 on local food systems and rural livelihoods
As COVID-19 took hold in March 2020, the primary focus was on ensuring that people stayed healthy and safe from infection. However, it soon became clear that the pandemic would…
How Covid-19 Lockdowns Threatened Vital Informal Urban Food Trade
The significance of the informal urban food trade cannot be overstated. The trade provides linkages between small-scale farmers in rural areas and consumers in urban areas, this makes it key…
Covid-19 Key lessons for Improving the Resilience of Farmers and Entrepreneurs
The conditions imposed by Covid-19 exposed many flaws in the agriculture value chain and the Micro and Small Enterprises (MSE) sector. However, every cloud has a silver lining, this exposure…
How Smallholder Farmers in Rural Kenya are Weathering the Consequences of the Pandemic
The lockdowns and curfews instituted by the government in March and April 2020 to contain the spread of Covid-19 chocked-off farmers access to supplies and demand for their produce. Further,…
The Impact of Covid-19 on Small Scale Farming in Kenya
Kenya confirmed its first Covid-19 case on March 12, 2020, the case being of a Kenyan citizen who had traveled back into the country from the United States of America.…
Are Kenyan farmers producing too much food in pandemic
Record rains have delivered high harvest yields as more people have turned to farming in the face of unemployment. Now, some Kenyan farmers are worried the glut in crops has…
Locusts — Floods — Covid-19: How are Kenya’s food systems coping with the triple tragedy?
At the stroke of midnight on 1st January, 2020 the world ushered in not only a new year but a new decade. As happens at this time of the year,…