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FAO Officer in Nairobi Castro Paulino Camarada working in his office.
FAO Officer in Nairobi Castro Paulino Camarada working in his office.
FAO Officer in Nairobi Castro Paulino Camarada working in his office.
FAO Officer in Nairobi Castro Paulino Camarada working in his office.
FAO Officer in Nairobi Castro Paulino Camarada working in his office.
FAO Officer in Nairobi Castro Paulino Camarada standing just outside of the FAO Offices.
FAO Programme Officer Dr Paul Omanga standing in a rice field used soley to produce locally-grown seeds to cut down on costs. In the past, farmers recieved their seeds from Mwea, incurring high transp
The "Open Your Mind" widows' support group, started in 2006, gathering for a meeting.
A double handful of rice in a storage facility in Ahero.
A private rice mill in Ahero where farmers bring their rice after the harvest to be processed and sold.
A young boy holding harnesses for oxen used to till the land in preparation for planting new seedlings.
Bags of rice in a storage facility in Ahero.
Bags of rice in a storage facility in Ahero.
The Bunyala irrigation scheme water pump. The water pump provides water from the Nzoia River to all the rice paddies in Bunyala.
Rice fields for producing locally-grown seeds which cuts down on costs. In the past, farmers recieved their seeds from Mwea, incurring high transport costs in the price.
Rice fields for producing locally-grown seeds which cuts down on costs. In the past, farmers recieved their seeds from Mwea, incurring high transport costs in the price.
Left, two female rice farmers and right, a young woman who sells tea and mandazis (a Kenyan pastry) to rice mill workers, enjoying a break from work in the private rice mill in Ahero.
Sacks of rice for sale in the private rice mill in Ahero, after having been processed.
Bags of rice in a storage facility in Ahero.
Bags of rice in a storage facility in Ahero.
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FAO Officer in Nairobi Castro Paulino Camarada working in his office.
TCP/KEN/3201 - Input supply to vulnerable populations under the ISFP. At the height of the 2008 food price crisis, FAO, through its Initiative on Soaring Food Prices (ISFP), launched a series of one-year input supply projects to help vulnerable farmers grow more food and earn more money. In Kenya, where civil unrest, drought and high food, fuel and input prices have left poor families even more vulnerable, this assistance has given one community hope for a better future. An earlier FAO investment of two new water pumps helped to revive the Ahero Irrigation Scheme, which had collapsed in the late 90s. To reverse the scheme's low output, FAO, in September 2008, worked closely with Kenya's National Irrigation Board (NIB), the Agriculture Finance Cooperation (AFC) and the Rural Environmental Care for Africa (RECA) to provide 540 farming families with high-yielding rice seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and technical assistance. They helped the farmers to organise into smaller groups and connected them to service providers including banks and equipment rental. Thanks to a robust local and regional market for rice, bigger yields from this last harvest meant bigger profits. Local traders bought more than half of what was produced in Ahero, while others came from elsewhere in Kenya and from nearby countries. The World Food Programme (WFP) bought about 40 metric tonnes, which they distributed to drought-affected communities in Kenya's Rift Valley. It was the WFP's first purchase in Kenya under the newly launched "Purchase for Progress" (P4P) - an initiative to link low-income farmers with markets. At a time when Kenyans throughout the country are being made more vulnerable by drought and other shocks, the need for greater investments in agriculture is all the more pressing.
10/01/2009
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