Category: Food Sovereignty

Agro-Ecological Farming Enhancing Farmers’ Livelihoods
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- 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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FARMING IN SMALL PARCELS OF LAND
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- 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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Kitchen Gardens Providing Food Security and Income
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- March 14, 2014
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“As a flower blossoms, so shall be my kitchen garden”, those are the words that keeps reminding her to put more effort in what she does. Agnes Wairimu is a member of Nyamutuagaki Women Self Help Group, one of the groups ICE started to work with through Climate Seed, and
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Kamburu Gets a Second Chance
- Food Sovereignty
- May 20, 2012
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The small garden occupying about an eighth of an acre is a beautiful sight to look at. On one side of the garden are neat rows of cabbages planted next to a bumper crop of beans inter-planted with maize. One can tell that the maize was planted recently because at
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When Small Makes Sence
- Food Sovereignty
- May 20, 2012
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It is apparent that the success a farmer gets from a certain crop is dependent on many other things besides just rain. In Masinga, the farmers have ascertained that apart from rain, fertilisation and cultivation, the method of land preparation also matters a lot. Techniques such as deep digging and
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Sweet Potatoes Save a Village
- Food Sovereignty
- May 12, 2012
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James and Salome Wagara hail from Kamburu village in Central Kenya. The couple owns a small piece of land where they live and farm. Tea is a major crop here alongside dairy cattle keeping and chicken rearing. It has been tough these last few years for the Wagaras. “The rains
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Family Unit Receives New Lease on Life
- Food Sovereignty
- April 13, 2012
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Magdaline Wambui Mitugo comes from a past full of emptiness and dependency. Now the chair-lady of a vibrant one hundred-member Kamburu Institute for Culture and Ecology (ICE) Women Group, she talks of their long journey from isolation and insignificance to a present now full of hope and prosperity. “If there
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Indigenous Foods Transforming Lifestyles
- Food Sovereignty
- May 3, 2010
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Rosemary Muthoni Kago is a living testimony that nature has solutions to the problems that befall its inhabitants. When Rosemary was diagnosed with diabetes a few years ago, life for her seemed doomed. “I was told I had to eat a lot of foods with natural sugar to boost my
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