in kenya

AGRIFI Kenya Challenge Fund is a €24 millon five year agri-business support programme that is part of the European Union’s Agriculture Financing Initiative programme.
It supports productive, adapted and market-integrated smallholder agriculture, including a contribution to the Africa Investment Facility.

The objective of the project is to increase the capacity of 100,000 smallholder farmers/pastoralists to practice environmentally sustainable and climate-smart agriculture as a business in inclusive value chains. The AGRIFI project seeks to explore and address some of the barriers to women’s participation, together with the question of access and control of resources. It provides training both to farmers’ organisations and to community-based organisations.

• 100,000 total direct beneficiaries
• 10,000 net equivalent jobs created
• 50 agri-businesses supported
• 15 trade associations supported

The BARINGO project, which started in 2019, aims to promote secure and sustainable livelihoods amongst
individual households that are prone to drought in Baringo County, enabling them to spread their risk and prevent production asset loss.

The goal is to ensure that targeted households have improved access to extension services and diversified farming systems. At least 40,000 hectares of land will be under improved land management or fodder production The aim is to mitigate the effects of climate change and build community resilience in order to increase the food, nutrition and income security of smallholder agro-pastoralist and pastoralist households in Baringo County.

• 60,000 households

The project aims to integrate smallholder farmers into the development of the cassava value chain, which is currently very underdeveloped and highly informal. SHA are training Lead Farmers to disseminate trainings on cassava production to 28,000 smallholders in producer groups. Farmers are being trained on good agricultural practices and climate smart agriculture, farming as a business, quality standards, and value-addition. Theses trainings and linkages will help to strengthen the cassava value chain and create secure employment for smallholder farmers.  Self Help Africa's Terms of Reference for the Development of IEC Material on good agricultural practices for Cassava.  

• 20,000 beneficiaries, 5600 jobs and 28 MSME's strengthened