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FOOD SECURITY PROJECT

Project Location: Kibwezi East, Kibwezi West Sub-counties

Expected Number of Beneficiaries: 7,100 Community members; 6,000 in Village Savings and Loaning Associations (VSLA) and 1,100 in Conservation Agriculture (CA).

Project Objective

  • Enhanced community food security and gender inclusivity for 7,100 community members of Kibwezi West and East in Makueni County.

Intermediate Outcomes

  1. Improved access to sustainable financial services leading to improved household food availability.
  2. Improved household food production
  3. Increased empowerment for women as leaders in the community and change agents

How does Conservation Agriculture work?

Conservation Agriculture creates food sources that are more reliable and produce more. This is achieved through:

  1. Minimum soil disturbance to retain water, decrease erosion, and reduce labour.
  2. Permanent soil cover keeps soil fertile and moist while suppressing weeds.
  3. Crop rotation and or association creates nutrient-rich soil and protects against spoil.

 

When resources are maximized, so is the potential for transformation.

When communities use what they have in different ways, they make the most out of their resources at hand. This maximizes the potential impact and helps lift whole communities out of poverty and into food security.

  • Kitchen gardens, or gardens designed to produce food that use kitchen wastewater, are a sustainable and efficient way to increase a family’s food supply. 
  • Indigenous seed types that are better adapted to current conditions are also introduced, making planted crops more resilient.  Many communities even use each other as resources.
  • Through copycat farming, neighbors teach neighbors the basics of conservation agriculture, and more crops flourish.