FEED AFRICA INITIATIVE

                  CREATING SOCIAL CAPITAL

      
Feed Africa Initiative is a poverty alleviation programmmme under Nzouni Ranch Education Centre.
It is a social capital agenda and aims at providing farmers with the best solutions that will improve on their agricultural productivity.
FAI Pillar projects include

Kitchen Gardening programme
 This focusses on ensuring that  every household has initiated the project. FAI provide both the materials and trainings needed to establish the project in rural poor householdS
Modern Bee Keeping. FAI provides Farmer groups with modern bee hives, technology on stocking bee hives and harvesting as well as trainings on bee management. FAI also liases with farmer groups for honey processing and other value addition practices and marketing. FAI engages in market search on behalf of the farmers.
Breeding Services. This is aimed at improving local indegenous breeds for farners. The key connsideration by FAI is improvement on weight, early maturing and increased productivity in terms of milk, meat and eggs.
 A)Poultry Farming- FAI provides the farmers with improved cockrels to improve the local poultry breeds, or improved chicks or eggs for hatching. FAI also provide trainings on poultry management practices especially brooding and separation of chicks from hens after hatching and also feeding and treatment of chicks.
 B)Cattle and goats - FAI provides Farmer Groups with improved sires ( male goats and bulls) to change the local breeds. This aims at atlonglast achieving pure sahiwals and galla goats within Kitui East. These breed types have good market weight, matures fast and they require the same management practices with the local Zebu and local goats kept by majority of farmers within Kitui East.
 

 

FEED AFRICA INITIATIVE (FAI)

ACTIVITY OVERVIEW

 Feed Africa Initiative works with small holder farmers, agribusiness institutions, county, national and international agricultural agencies to address the problem of food insecurity in Kenya and entire Africa.
FAI aims at bringing farmers to mass production of food through educating farmers on the best agricultural enterprises to engage on depending on the ecological conditions of their land.
FAI also focuses on availing the relevant technology to the small holder farmers to improve on their agricultural productivity especially on livestock production through offering the services of improved sires to improve indigenous breeds. This includes cattle, goats and poultry.
Another issue addressed by FAI is encouraging farmers to grow some crops which have been ignored and their production continue declining. Interestingly these crops have relatively high nutritional and economical value compared to dominant crop maize and also they thrive the best even under poor conditions. These are crops like millet , cassava and sorghum.

FAI  GOALS

• Making African farmers carry out sustainable agriculture using appropriate ways of farming.

• Offering consultancy services on agriculture on best cultivars to be grown on areas with different ecological  conditions.

• Sensitizing farmers on important ignored food crops that can substitute the dominant maize crop as food crop in Africa. Such crop include millet, sorghum ,cassava among others

• Livestock production based on controlled breeding, improved productivity by offering breeding services and education

• Sensitizing farmers to carry out commercial agriculture other than the dominance subsistence farming.

• General education to farmers on good agricultural practices ranging from the time of land preparation, planting, harvesting, post harvesting management and marketing.

• Linking the farmers with appropriate agencies and participants in the sector of agriculture and the entire economy through contracting  and integration.

• Getting the markets for agricultural produce for the farmers who adopt commercialized agriculture in the rural set up.

• Value addition of farmers produce through grading and processing.

• Fighting against deforestation due to rampant burning by teaching farmers and making them engage in other viable economic activities.