Sharon Cherutich Mutai is a produce vendor at a small but bustling market along the highway connecting Kenya and Uganda through the Great Rift Valley town of Eldoret. Normally Sharon, who is in her 30s, is busy selling...
The dairy sector currently accounts for eight percent (8%) of Kenya’s GDP. With 1.5 million smallholder farmers producing milk, dairy has the potential to greatly contribute to economic growth and job creation. With...
In Kenya's Tana River District, both pastoralists and farmers suffer when there is drought. Many of the indigenous communities grow maize, beans, mangoes, and various traditional vegetables. Lacking an irrigation...
Hola, a small town located in Kenya's Tana River County, is home to Wata Omara Youth Group . This group produces and sells traditional jewelry made from metal, bone, and horn. The process of smelting metal to make...
The Rift Valley region of Kenya has favorable climatic conditions for production of horticultural crops. However, this opportunity was not fully exploited for decades namely due to drought, lack of education on horticultural...
Fredrick Mwangi Mbugua delivered a powerful address in honor of International Day of Persons with Disabilities at the Joytown School for the Disabled in Thika. Mbugua speaks from personal experience, from resilience…and from...
Growing French beans for the export market increases smallholder farmers’ incomes. A community-based approach to using entrepreneurial youth to distribute affordable and nutritious products, ...
Joseph Maina is one of the 700 members of the Kitiri Dairy Farmers Cooperative Society. He is a dairy farmer from Kinangop, Nyandarua County and has worked closely with the USAID/Kenya Dairy Sector Competitiveness...
Mary Rono used to fit the mold of the archetypal Kenyan dairy farmer. The 56 year old retired government social worker gone dairy farmer and full time mother, living in the village of Kibomet in Kenya’s Rift Valley, would...
