Human waste can provide 50M tons of fertiliser every year, providing a ready and zero-cost way to boost crop production. But is being wasted on issues around its safe use on foods and farmers’ aversion to using human manure. Unlike in most of eighteenth-century Europe where streets were paved with human feaces and pit latrines […]
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The Kenya Meteorological Department has issued a forecast warning that many regions of Kenya will get only four weeks of rain instead of the normal three months threatening to destroy harvests for more than half the country. Driven by La Niña conditions which bring warmer and drier weather and are expected to continue until early
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Drought-resistant food trees offer secrets to boosting drought diets by providing fruits, edible nuts, and seeds, leaves cooked as vegetables, and edible oils during dry spells and droughts which have doubled in Africa since 2005 to one every six years. According to the World Agroforestry Centre, in Kenya alone, about 400 indigenous drought-tolerant trees provide
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By Henry Jami Mang’eni Thomas Mramba has increased the earnings of his ancestral farm by Sh320000 by switching from habit to planned farming and replacing traditional maize and cowpeas with chilies and vegetables. Studies have shown that smallholder farmers who had a clearly outlined and written mission or vision for their farm and engaged in highly
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The Tracer.eco app gives smallholder coffee and cocoa farmers a free online test with immediate results on whether their harvest will be allowed to enter the European Union market, which imports 53 per cent of Kenya’s coffee, after it implements new deforestation laws from 30th December 2024. The new European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) rules
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Using homemade fermented waste as fertiliser farmers can increase their crop yields by 23 per cent while cutting the time it takes them to make traditional compost by 75 days. Bokashi, a Japanese word for perfectly fermented organic matter, improves soil health and crop fertility more than traditional composting and takes less than two weeks
By Fadhili Fredrick A Sh1.06 million community grant has transformed the lives of a women-led octopus fishing group in Pate Island, Lamu county. Shanga Ishakani Women Fisher Group got the funds from Kenya Marine Fisheries and Socio-Economic Development (KEMFSED). In a phone interview with FarmbizAfrica the group’s founder and chairperson Ms Amina Ahmed said they
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Herders in Kenya’s Baringo County have increased incomes by over 500% by home-processing aloe Vera leaves growing wild in their pastoral pathways. According to the Center for International Forestry Research, the market potential for the drought-resistant crop that grows naturally in the wild in Kenya is strong but remains underexplored. While brokers buy freshly cut
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Farmers can harvest as early as November as the ongoing off-season rains have provided enough moisture to plant crops in September. This early planting will also see farmers avoid losses from the upcoming dry short rains. According to the Kenya Meteorological Department, ideal rains for agriculture are expected over the remaining days of August, September,
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Position: Programme Manager, Inclusive Trade – Fisheries at Trade Mark East Africa Employer: Trade Mark East Africa Location: Nairobi About the position: Working closely with the Business Competitiveness, West Africa & AfCFTA, and Inclusive Trade Director, the Programme Manager Inclusive Trade- Fisheries will be responsible for the implementation of Women and Youth Economic Empowerment in
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