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How Digital Loans are Uplifting Kenyan Farmers
Digital loans are proving useful to Kenyan farmers as they gradually warm up to various avenues to secure credit, including banks, SACCOs, informal lenders, and government initiatives like the Hustler…
Climate-Smart Beans: How Nyota Beans Symbolize Hope Amidst Climate Change Challenges
These are no ordinary beans - they're climate-smart beans. The seeds could be the answer to growing crops as the world's weather shifts. In a pioneering collaboration between scientists from…
Good News to Mango Farmers in Makueni as Govt Links Them to an Investor
Mango farmers in Makueni County stand to reap more benefits from their produce after the government found a new market outside Kenya, Makueni Governor Mutula Kilonzo Jnr has said. Governor…
Protecting women farmers from climate risk in rural Kenya
Worldwide, women represent 43 percent of the agricultural labor force; in Kenya, that number is between 42 and 65 percent. However, a lack of access to land, financing, training and…
Inspiring Stories from the Field of Sustainability and Social Change: The Journey of Benedetta Kyengo
Within sustainability and social change, stories often emerge that inspire and challenge the status quo. One such narrative is that of University College Utrecht alumna Benedetta (Bena) Kyengo ‘15, a…
The Current State Of Rabbit Farming In Kenya
Rabbit farming, once an underrated farming venture in Kenyan agriculture, has emerged as a promising avenue for economic growth and food security. With its low initial investment, high reproductive rate,…
Nakuru Farmers Reap Big In Pyrethrum Revival, Value Addition
White dazzling petals, with yellow anthers sunken in the middle, brightened by the cool climatic conditions of Kenyan highlands that they bask in. The pyrethrum flowers may pass for your…
Onion Prices to Remain High in April Despite Harvest – CBK
Onion Prices are expected to remain elevated in the month of April despite an increase in supply harvesting which peaked in March. Photo Credit: @IrriHub According to the Kenya National…
From 5 Bags of Maize to 36: Success Story Of Pauline Mugambi
Pauline Mugambi, once struggling to yield more than 5 bags per acre from her modest plot, now boasts an impressive harvest of thirty-six bags of maize. This outstanding results in…
From survival to thriving: Kenyan smallholder farmers embrace climate-smart innovations
With palpable joy, Pauline Mogambi cast an admiring gaze at the indigenous vegetables blooming on her farm in the northwestern Kenyan county of Nakuru, about 180 kilometers from the capital,…