Summaries of HUNGER PROJECTS in Africa
Working with LWR Partners

Kenya: Farmers’ Capacity Building.

Partners: LWR and Farming Syatems Kenya (FSK)

Kenya’s Nakuru district has historically been the country’s breadbasket. However, due to a decline in the agricultural sector over the last 10 years, 45 percent of rural farming households live in absolute poverty, while an additional 42 percent are food impoverished. Inadequate farming practices, distorted marketing systems, and droughts have only served to exacerbate the situation.

GOAL: FSK works with rural farmers to reduce poverty and increase productivity through extension, training, credit, research and consultancy. This phase of the project will allow FSK to provide further training and credit support to those already participating in the project. The project will prepare already funded groups for self-reliance through the Farmers Marketing Federations over the next three years in order to ensure sustainability.

OBJECTIVES:

• 30 additional groups will be trained and receive funding to implement income-generating projects.

• Further training will be provided for group leaders and members trained in the previous phase of the project, in order to sustain gains that have been made to date.

• The existing Farmers Marketing Federations will be strengthened and consolidated through specialized courses in management, including cooperative leadership, financial management, governance, gender and HIV/AIDS

• Training in micro-food processing to increase shelf life of produce to improve marketability.

• Training in writing and marketing funding proposals for the Farmers Marketing Federation.

Total LWR Support: $106,446 through 2005.

Hunger Projects : Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo and Uganda.

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