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.

Raising trade for agricultural products across borders

The Regional East African Community Trade in Staples Phase-II (REACTS-II) was a 3 years’ regional flagship project (April 2018 – March 2021) that supported smallholder farming households and other val...

May 25, 2021

IKEA Foundation learning event fosters innovation

In the last three days, the KT team led by CEO Dr Birungi Korutaro, Anthony Mugambi, and Andrew Cheboi participated in the IKEA Foundation learning event themed Better Together – Agricultural Liveliho...

May 23, 2021

Enduring Linkages: Bukoba Farmers in Tanzania to reduce post-harvest losses and improve the quality of seed by adopting threshing technology learned and sourced from Rwanda.

Kilimo Trust, an East Africa-based not-for profit organization implemented a project dubbed “Bean Enterprises and Structured Trade in East African Community (BEST-EAC)” during the period October 2015 ...

Feb 22, 2021

Seeking regional marketing solutions to local problems

Uganda’s progress in reducing poverty over the last two decades is a remarkable story of success (The Uganda Poverty Assessment Report 2016). The newly released findings show that much of this poverty...

Feb 22, 2021

New cross-border market created for onion farmers

The Mang’ola valley is famous in East Africa for onion production. The valley is part of Lake Eyasi basin located in Karatu district, Arusha region, in Northern Tanzania. Before LECOFANET formation (a...

Feb 22, 2021

KT/GIZ SHINES ONCE AGAIN AT NANE NANE 2017 MBEYA-TANZANIA

Kilimo Trust/GIZ CARI exhibited for the second time at Mwakangale grounds in Mbeya for eight (8) days during the Agricultural exhibitions in Southern Highland zone of Tanzania to increase visibility. ...

Feb 21, 2021

Marketed rice gains from good agricultural practices

Musoma Food Company Limited (MFCL) is one of the leading suppliers of grain and cereal food products in the Lake Zone. The company processes and markets about 6,500MT of rice per annum. The company is...

Feb 21, 2021

Dry season in Rufiji Valley? Don’t worry, dear farmers

Despite of living nearby reliable irrigation water source, rice farmers in Nyangala village have been producing rice once a year during rainy season using “Bamvua” a traditional system commonly practi...

Feb 21, 2021

Growing environmentally friendly beans explained

Climbing beans have the potential to provide farmers with yields three times higher than bush beans. This means three times more food on the table or three times more money in the pocket for the milli...

Feb 21, 2021

How Bigando grains coop secured regional markets

Limited access to guaranteed markets is one of the priority constraints hindering smallholder farmer commercialization and general development of agricultural value chains. Often, for countries with s...

Dec 28, 2020

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