Objective:<\/span> <\/strong>The programme will support climate-vulnerable communities targeting men, women, and youth including people with disabilities in 250,000 households in Elgeyo Marakwet, Narok, Kwale, and Tana River counties in Kenya to improve sustainability and resilience to the ecosystem\u2019s goods and services and increase household resilience and adaptive capacity.<\/p>\nT<\/span>he programme goal is resilient and productive socio-ecological systems by 2052 through landscape restoration, livelihoods building for 250,000 smallholder farmers and pastoralists (men, women and youth) covering 250,000 hectares of land in four target counties in Kenya.<\/p>\nThis programme will help build substantial carbon sinks and sequestration opportunities, allowing viable returns to both small-holder farmers and investors.<\/p>\n
The programme will seek to achieve this through:<\/p>\n
\n- Increased resilience and diversified livelihoods for smallholder households;<\/li>\n
- Improved sustainable income for communities from resilient climate smart value chains;<\/li>\n
- Diversified and sustainable income streams through carbon market engagements;<\/li>\n
- Strengthened institutional, knowledge sharing and regulatory systems\/framework (policies) for climate-responsive planning, development and carbon trading.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Beneficiaries: 250,000 Households<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
CASSAVA MARKET ACCESS PROJECT (CAMAP)<\/span><\/h4>
Objective:<\/span> <\/b>To increase incomes and reduce poverty for 8,000 cassava smallholder farmers by promoting efficient and well-functioning seed systems and markets.<\/p>\nT<\/span>he Cassava Market Access Project is an upscaling initiative from Strengthening the Competitiveness of Cassava Value Chain Project in Kenya funded by the European Union. The project will cover Busia, Homabay, Kisumu, and Migori counties in Kenya. The project\u2019s objective is to increase incomes and reduce poverty for 8,000 cassava smallholder farmers by promoting efficient and well-functioning seed systems and markets.<\/p>\nBeneficiaries: 8,000 <\/b>(6,000 female, 2,000 male, 1,000 youth)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
BARINGO RESILIENCE INITIATIVE:\nNURTURING GREATER OPPORTUNITY<\/span><\/h4>
Objective: <\/b><\/span>10,000 HHs in Baringo County adopt productive, climate-resilient and nutrition sensitive agriculture and livestock production strategies. Crop and livestock productivity is increased for 10,000 pastoralist and agro-pastoralist households, 10,000 households are equipped with improved skills and knowledge in household nutrition and hygiene, participatory land utilisation and management is improved in the target areas, increased access to markets for 10,000 pastoralist and agro-pastoralist households, and improved collaboration between stakeholders within Baringo County.<\/p>\nT<\/span>he development objective of the project is to promote secure and sustainable livelihoods amongst individual households that are prone to drought in Baringo County by enabling them to spread their risk and prevent production asset loss thereby increasing their income. The pathway to change is premised on mitigating the effect of climate change and building community resilience.<\/p>\nKey strategies to mitigating the effect of climate change and building community resilience will focus on:<\/p>\n
\n- Increasing agricultural productivity through provision of widely-accessible inputs and extension services to increase crops and livestock production;<\/li>\n
- Increasing Household Nutrition;<\/li>\n
- Improving land use to ensure better utilization of high and medium potential lands through water and soil conservation techniques;<\/li>\n
- Increasing markets and market access for agricultural produce.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
60,000 members of agro-pastoralist and pastoralist HHs <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
ASSET-BASED FINANCE FOR HYDROPONICS<\/span><\/h4>
Objective:<\/span> <\/b>The project will target 80 small scale commercial vegetable farmers, a minimum 40% of whom will be women, to invest in hydroponics vegetable production in 40 greenhouses.<\/p>\n\n- Establish a sustainable business model for small-scale commercial hydroponics farming with Partner and Farmers.<\/li>\n
- Assess, design, and prepare a fair, transparent and impactful asset based finance product.<\/li>\n
- Establish hydroponics farms in the proposed ASALs counties with 40 greenhouses and up to 80 farmers.<\/li>\n
- Train at least 80 farmers on hydroponics farming as well as financial literacy and business management.<\/li>\n
- Establish market linkages between hydroponics farmers and buyers.<\/li>\n
- Develop and test conditions and processses for repayment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
80 farmers <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>
GENZERO: RESTORING TREES AND\nLIVELIHOODS IN KENYA<\/span><\/h4>
Objective: <\/b><\/span>The project aims to rehabilitate degraded landscapes and improve carbon stocks, increase household income, assets, food and nutrition security and diversify sustainable income streams through carbon market engagement.<\/p>\nT<\/span>he project aims to restore land, enhance ecosystems services and increase carbon storage in the landscape, through the scaling up of nature-based restoration activities including the growing of 2,103,143 trees, whilst improving the livelihoods of 30,000 households and restoring 32,500 hectares in Kenya . The resulting carbon sequestered from these restoration activities will be approximately 1,294,264 tonnes of CO2eq which the project will aim to convert to approximately 647,132 tonnes of CO2eq into certified credits.<\/p>\n9,000 direct beneficiaries (550,000 receiving training in tree growing practices) <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>
KENYAN INITIATIVE FOR LONG-TERM INTEGRATION OF MARKET OPERATORS IN VALUE CHAINS<\/span><\/h4>
Objective: <\/b><\/span>The AgriFi Kenya Challenge Fund targeted smallholder farmers\/pastoralists to participate in sustainable agricultural value chains to support their livelihoods and economic growth. The enterprises covered horticulture, aquaculture, cotton, pyrethrum, coffee, sorghum, nuts, gums, potatoes, apiculture, cereals, and pulses value chains.<\/p>\nT<\/span>he project has supported productivity and improved climate resilience of 160,000 smallholder farmers and pastoralists which has accelerated smallholder transition to commercial agriculture and livestock production hence facilitated increased and diversified smallholder farmers\u2019 income on a sustainable basis.<\/p>\n\n- A funding scheme blending investments and commercial loans established. This will support investments to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of priority agricultural value chains and the integration of smallholders\/pastoralists within them.<\/li>\n
- Technical advisory services component for 50 agri-enterprise actors established<\/li>\n
- Increased capacity of 100,000 smallholders\/pastoralists and downstream VC actors to collaborate in inclusive agriculture value chains<\/li>\n
- Increased access to finance (credit, banks, investment) for complementary investments by downstream VC actors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
192,718 smallholder farmers<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>