Category: Blogs

New farming skills increase yields, No turning back!
- Featured
- Food Sovereignty
- September 5, 2019
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Ms. Agnes Muthoni is a farmer of Mwangaza self- help group, a farmer group in Mbeere, Embu County. Agnes is a youth small scale farmer and a mother of two. She relies on farming for living. Just like other farmers in Mbeere, she has experienced hardship in farming due to
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More livelihood options, Less climate risk, More income!
- Blogs, Food Sovereignty
- May 30, 2019
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Mr. Bedan Njeru, a member of Mwanzo group, a self-help group of 35 members, can attest to the statement that with more livelihood options one reduces climate risk and increase income. Mr. Njeru is a married man and a father of two children. Mr. Njeru is also a community leader
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Agro-Ecological Farming Enhancing Farmers’ Livelihoods
- Blogs, Food Sovereignty
- July 1, 2017
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Variety is the spice that gives life all its flavor. Meet Janet Muriungi of Thuura Rwathuka Self-Help Group of Nyaki East Ward, North Imenti Sub-county of Meru County whose group has been working with ICE since 2013. From the time, her farm has never been the same again. Just like
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Making farming climate resilient, for food and income security!
- Food Sovereignty
- April 27, 2017
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“I now feel proud of my work as a farmer and the success I have made this far. My family is not only food and nutritional secure but we are making a living through sale of surplus produce from this farm” says Victoria Mumo. Victoria Mumo hails from Kithendo village
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Towards restoring Ecological Resilience – A Case study
- Natural Resource Management
- April 27, 2017
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Ecosystems when faced by disturbances whether naturally or human-induced work towards recovery – this is a show of ecological resilience. The ease with which a particular ecosystem regains its previous or improved status is a measure of this resilience. Where perturbation is of high magnitude, recovery takes place slowly and
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FARMING IN SMALL PARCELS OF LAND
- Blogs, Food Sovereignty
- February 20, 2017
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Farmers who hold small parcels of land strive to attain high productivity, despite these size of their lands which they have homestead in them too. However, with decreasing land sizes as a result of land subdivision, it is getting more difficult to survive on farming alone. Meru is one of
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Eunice Ngoki, the Queen of Arrow Roots
- Food Sovereignty
- June 9, 2016
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At Ngurumo village, Ntakira Location, Meru, she is known as queen of arrow-roots. Eunice Ngoki is a member of Meru Jitegemee group. After training on agro-ecological farming and need to revive indigenous seed and crops, Eunice decided to specialise on arrow-roots among other crops that had disappeared in the community.
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Strategic Partnerships to Fight Effects of Climate Change
- Institutional Development
- April 11, 2015
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The first thing that strikes any visitor to the Thiiti Mothers group as odd is that there are men in the group! “The group was founded in 1989 by mothers who were then agitating against female genital mutilation but later they decided to strategically include us in the group to
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Farmers are the New Voice of Conservation
- Advocacy & Networking
- April 9, 2015
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Cathreen Kareaikwa is what you may call a typical African entrepreneur driven by both a passion to serve her community and the desire to turn up a profit. She is the outgoing coordinator of the Tharaka Nithi Environmental Change Network (TECNet), a conservation advocacy network whose existence has been facilitated
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Shaping Environmental Conservation Through Networking
- Advocacy & Networking
- April 9, 2015
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Besides the transfer of innovative agricultural farming technologies to farmers, the Institute for Culture and Ecology (ICE) is also involved in building the capacity of local institutions to champion the course of environmental conservation in their localities. In Machakos, it is doing this through the Masinga, Yatta, and Matungulu Advocacy
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