Kenya

  1. Agricultural Heritage – Our Key to the Future
    For millennia communities of farmers, herders, fishers, and forest people have developed complex, diverse, and locally-adapted agricultural systems. These systems have been managed with time-tested, ingenious techniques and practices that have led to community food security, the conservation…
  2. FAO staff, donors and partners in a workshop on building resilience in the Near East and North Africa
    Under the Strategic Framework, FAO has made resilience a corporate priority. Its approach focuses on supporting people, institutions and state systems to absorb, adapt and transform when confronted with shocks and threats affecting their food security and agriculture-based livelihoods. In…
  3. Male African leaders join the HeForShe campaign
    The three led by example by signing up on the online platform during a HeForShe gala dinner in Nairobi, Kenya on 10 February, the first regional event of its kind in Africa. The event was attended by Ambassador Sahle Work-Zwede, the Director General, United Nations Office in Nairobi;  …
  4. The new yuppies: how to build a new generation of tech-savvy farmers
    As farmers age around the globe – I estimate that the average age is 55 – we need to make sure that young people see the food system as a viable career option. These farmers are the future of food. They can help to mitigate and potentially reverse climate change, curb unemployment and…
  5. Moving in the right direction: join the debate on the CGIAR agenda
    Last week in Johannesburg, South Africa, the FARA@15 Celebration provided the opportunity to announce the first step of a consultation on the new CGIAR Strategy and Results Framework (SRF), as well as the forthcoming launch of the GCARD 3 process.   “GCARD3 will be a two-year…
  6. Call for Applications - Doctoral Programme with HORTINLEA
    Applications for the Doctoral Programme within the framework of the joint international research project HORTINLEA are welcome. The general objective of project HORTINLEA is to address pressing challenges of undernutrition, poverty and sustainability and to improve the livelihood and…
  7. Sharefair on Rural Women’s Technologies
    UN Women's Regional Office for Eastern and Southern Africa in partnership with FAO, IFAD and WFP has planned an Inspiring Agricultural Change: Sharefair on Rural Women's Technologies to Improve Food Security, Nutrition and Productive Family Farming. The Sharefair is a regional initiative aimed at…
  8. Making Agriculture “Cool” for Youth
    Agriculture has an image problem. Simply put, for the majority of the world’s youth, agriculture simply isn’t seen as being “cool” or attractive. Most think of it only as back-breaking labor, without an economic pay-off—and little room for career advancement. With an ageing population of…
  9. Development Partnerships Specialist
  10. Smallholder’s Access to ICT
    My earliest memories on issues involving small holder farmers’ access to Information and Communication Technologies are with the introduction of the radio. I had recently migrated from Kenya to India in the early days of 1970 to study and everything was new and strange to me, including…
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