Our Work - Success Stories

Discover inspiring success stories from Kilimo Trust, showcasing transformative agricultural projects and innovations that enhance food security and improve livelihoods across East Africa.

Fixing Africa's Commodity Price Dip -Our CEO's interview with CNBC Africa

At least 20 percent of Africa's population goes hungry each year as a result of high food prices and diminishing productivity in farms majorly linked to climate related events. CNBC Africa's Aby Agina...

Sep 4, 2024

What Africa can do to reduce dependence on food imports

Africa is now the most food import-dependent region in the world, dedicating more than 13 per cent of its import expenditure on food and agricultural commodities, according to the Food and Agriculture...

Aug 25, 2024

Against the grain: Turning rice husks menace into soft and friendly matter

Alex Kabiru, a 34-year-old entrepreneur in Kenya’s central region, has transformed rice husks, a problematic agricultural by-product, into a profitable and eco-friendly business. Rice husks, which are...

Aug 25, 2024

Research Benefits Mwea, West Kano Rice Farmers

Recent research and development efforts have significantly benefited rice farmers in Mwea and West Kano, Kenya. Initiatives include introducing new farming techniques, enhancing irrigation systems, an...

Mar 27, 2022

Youth and women groups earn living from rice husks

When Bernard Omondi started rice farming, he thought straws will help him in mulching and improve soil fertility. He was wrong. https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/farmkenya/amp/crop/article/2001423474/ri...

Mar 27, 2022

Smallholder farmers now adapt to climate change

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Mar 27, 2022

Agri-tech helps improve smallholder livelihoods

A middle-aged woman who is an amaranth farmer from Ringa Kakelo in Homa Bay looks jovial as she harvests the crop’s grains at her four acres farm. She has all the reasons to smile because after harves...

Mar 27, 2022

Alex Odundo turns scrap metal into farm machines

A security guard opens the heavy metal gate to allow in a three-wheeler (tuktuk) at the premises located a short distance from the Kisumu-Nairobi Road in Nyamware, Kisumu County. The three-wheeler is ...

Mar 27, 2022

Rice waste converts into wealth creation venture

At Pap Onditi Shopping Center Nyakach, Kisumu County, 45-year-old Benta Akinyi is carrying a heap of load on her head that looks light in weight. It looks like unpacked grass for animal feeds but movi...

Mar 27, 2022

Key potential agribusiness value chains for youth employment

Many young people know little of the opportunities and dynamism possible in farming today, a reason why majority of them are not attracted to the sector. Informed by the above fact, the International ...

Feb 7, 2022

Partnership on groundnuts lifts farmers out of poverty

Batian Nuts Ltd, a local agro-processing company, has partnered with Egerton University, Kilimo Trust and the largest incubator for inclusive agri-business in Africa, 2SCALE to support farmers growing...

Oct 20, 2021

Cropping calendar assists farmers to get bank loan

A total of 89 Rice farmers in Mapogoro (60 farmers) and Tungamalenga (29farmers) rice schemes in Idodi ward Iringa District benefited from loan of amounting to 197 million Tsh (84,950USD) accessed fro...

Oct 5, 2021

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