Yesterday we had a field visit out to Machakos District in Kenya, following the bean value chain.  We saw research which is developing the next generation of bean varieties, through to farmers eking a living out of their bean fields, finishing with the highly motivated entrepreneurs who are making the markets work for the farmers.  We
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New satellite-based scheme makes first payments to pastoralists What hits you when you get out of the truck at Ginda Village, in Northern Kenya, is the smell. Farmer Haro Sora’s land is littered with the carcasses of cattle and donkeys that have keeled over following an intense, prolonged drought. A skull here; half a ribcage
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In March of this year, Maurice told us not to forget him.  He had been instrumental in supporting us doing a Social Return on Investment analysis for adaptation planning in the small village of Kochiel in Kenya.  Afterwards, he sent us a hand written note on a scraggy bit of paper telling us that the
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Tea farmers in Kenya are at risk of having their livelihoods seriously disrupted as a result of the adverse effects of climate change. As a result the Ethical Tea Partnership (ETP) and German International Corporation (GIZ) have partnered with CIAT to identify potential solutions to this problem. The aim of this project is to identify
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We have just finished an study on “Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Kenyan Coffee Sector” for Sangana Commodities Ltd., with the support of The German Technical Cooperation (GTZ). In this study, CIAT’s DAPA elaborated future climate scenarios to investigate the impact of climate change on coffee producing regions in Kenya. The study aimed to
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Read the interview of the interview with DAPA’s Andy Farrow on his project on drought-tolerant bean seeds that aimed at providing information on the location of existing seed outlets. It never rains but it pours, even during a drought. At least that’s what Andy Farrow must have thought when his project’s drought-tolerant bean seeds didn’t
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