October 2015

When real estate companies in Kenya realized they were not selling enough residential houses, they pulled out their drawing boards, cleared them and came up with a new strategy that now seems seamless. The unique marketing model involves wooing residential home buyers by giving them small plots for farming, which come complete with adequate water […]

Kenya imports over 70 per cent of the raw materials needed for manufacturing animal feed, the bulk of which consists of grain and oil seed cake by-products. Yet, a recent study by SNV Netherlands Development Organisation said that it is extremely difficult to purchase high quality inputs and that fraud is common,  resulting in substandard

Eldoret’s Baraka Farm, founded by Phyllis Keino and owned by Lewa Children’s Home-Trust, is one of the top dairy establishments in Kenya. The farm, which also houses the Lewa Children’s home and the Kipkeino School was initially focused on wheat and maize cultivation until 1993, when Dutch Jos Creemers took over operations and diverted most

A report published in 2011 by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) showed that Africa loses more than 40 percent of food in post-harvest handling. A World Bank report, also published in 2011, stated that a 1 percent reduction in post-harvest losses could lead to annual economic gains of $40 million, most of which would

The world already produces enough food to feed at least 10b people, according to a 2012 report by the Journal of Sustainable Agriculture. But the World Bank estimates that almost a quarter of all food produced each year, is lost under different circumstances. This amount of food can feed an extra one billion people according

The market for agribusiness goods in Africa could reach $1 trillion dollars in annual value by 2030 if dedicated efforts are made to feed the region’s fast-growing urban population, according to a World Bank report. Yet, even as 96% of consumable product transactions occur at the small vendor level, only a handful of business people

A recent study by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) shows that 70 per cent of small scale farmers across the world still rely on outdated farm management practices, which vastly lower their production capacities every season. The research observed that most farmers have destroyed their soil structures through the use of improper techniques