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In Central Uganda, farmers use hot water treatment technology to produce clean yam planting materials that give healthy yams for improved food security
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MATF is a grant making initiative that incubates innovations and enables smallholder farmers in rural and peri-urban communities in East Africa to access new agricultural technologies, gain skills; and be linked to profitable markets. MATF also generates models of good practice and scales out successful impact to more livelihoods while at the same time enhancing productivity of natural resources. More...

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Members of the consortium take notes next to a fish pond during their recent visit to the project area in western Kenya
Members of the consortium take notes next to a fish pond during their recent visit to the project area in western Kenya

DFID commissions FARM-Africa and partners to scale up its Aqua Shops Model in Kenya

The Aqua Shops model is a DFID approach under the Research Into Use Programme designed to overcome the constraints of Aquaculture Development. The model that is so successful in Eastern India with more than 20,000 poor farmers and entrepreneurs greatly benefiting, will be scaled up in Nyakach and Samia districts in Western Kenya beginning April 2010.
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Richard MacDonald and Peter Hazell with a cassava farmer in her plantation
Richard MacDonald and Peter Hazell talking to a cassava farmer in her plantation
FARM-Africa Board of Trustees Tour MATF Projects in Western Kenya

After their annual general meeting in Nairobi, the FARM-Africa board of trustees found the opportunity to go on two-day field experience at some of the FARM-Africa(FA) projects in Kenya. The visit that took place on 18th and 19th March 2010, had one group go to Mwingi, in Eastern Kenya and another in Rongo and Migori in Western Kenya. More...


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