Project Tittle: Power for Food Partnership
Period of implementation: October 2025 – December 2028.
Target Counties: Nandi and Uasin Gishu Counties.
Funded by: SNV.
Vision: To achieve renewable energy-driven resilient food systems, where people have equitable opportunities to thrive sustainably.
Mission: To catalyse partnerships and strengthen capacities to transform the agri-food system in Eastern Africa by enabling ecosystem actors in particular, smallholder farmers and small and medium-sized enterprises – to adopt regenerative practices powered by renewable energy.
Project Objective: The project’s objective is to restore soil health, enhance resilience to climate shocks, and increase farmers’ access to renewable energy solutions for irrigation, storage, and processing while linking them to structured markets.
Pathways: The project has 3 pathways: LEARN, LINK and LEVERAGE. Kilimo Trust is implementing the LEARN pathway which use adaptive, evidence-driven learning to validate what works for Regenerative Agriculture (RA) and Productive Use of Renewable Energy (PURE) approaches at local level. It prioritises practical research, demonstration, and participatory knowledge generation to close evidence gaps and support decision-making by technology users.
Outputs:
- Promote participatory learning on knowledge transfer on RA and PURE practices and skills development by facilitating Farmer Field Schools (FFS) and Farmers Business Schools (FBS).
- Facilitate RA and PURE learning hubs to provide continuous learning exchanges for farmers, SMEs and other key stakeholders.
Project activities:
- Form 80 farmer field schools (FFS)/Farmer field business schools, with at least a membership of 30 participants per FFS profiled and engaged.
- 8 Master trainers drawn from the departments of Agriculture and Energy at the Sub-county and ward level recruited, trained and equip to cascade same skills to communities through ToTs.
- Recruit and facilitate 80 FFS facilitators to deliver PURE/RA training to 2,400 participants as part of capacity development.
- Identify and establish 80 FBS, complete with RA/PURE practices as part of technology dissemination at FFS, FFBS
- Identify and establish 6 Reference farms, complete with RA/PURE practices as part of technology dissemination at ATC and selected TVETs.
- Facilitate 3 learning (ASK, Devolution, World Food Day) through participation/county organised by stakeholders on an annual basis, with attendance of Master trainers and selected RA Champions
- Business leakages created by facilitating 7 B2B meetings between PURE/RA input/service/innovators with FFS/FFBS.
- Facilitate 14 farmer field days, with 500 attendees to reach wider stakeholders with best practices in PURE/RA.
Expected Outcome: Ultimately, success will be defined by how effectively the partnership identifies and activates the key levers within food and energy systems that enable change at scale. While adopting regenerative agriculture and renewable energy solutions, greater investment in sustainable enterprises, and stronger evidence bases are important markers of progress; the true measure of impact lies in creating the enabling conditions that allow these solutions to become mainstream