Climate-smart agriculture

Kitchen Gardening

The materials required for kitchen gardening are basic and cost-effective. Common items like sacks, stones, soil, and manure are readily available and affordable. This simplicity ensures that the financial barriers to entry are low, enabling a broader segment of the population to adopt kitchen gardening to improve their nutrition and livelihood.

Bee Keeping

In Bee keeping , farmers were trained on using practices and technologies that enhance honey production while adapting to and mitigating the effects of climate change.Locally constructed hives were bought and distributed to 10 selected farmers who attended the exchange program.

Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) is a set of farming methods designed to increase the resilience and productivity of land affected by climate change. It’s a new name for something that has actually been around for quite a long time. But it’s now proving especially useful in some of the countries most affected by climate change, from Afghanistan to Kenya.

Projects.

Twico is transforming farming practices in Kenya’s semi-arid regions of by promoting drought-tolerant crops and training farmers in climate-smart technologies.

In the recent exchange program for climate-smart technologies organised in Kitui County, farmers had an opportunity learn about innovations such as kitchen gardening,mixed crop farming and bee keeping to help improve their nutrition and livelihoods.

Over 100 farrmers participated in the exchange program, with women making up 70% of attendees.

The benefits of Climate Smart Agriculture
This multi-faceted approach to CSA offers farmers and their families the opportunity for a ‘triple win’:
1. Better food security for farmers and their families
2. Farmers are more prepared to handle current and future effects of climate change
3. Where possible and when it benefits the farmers, we work with, reduced greenhouse gas But the benefits go beyond these three key outcomes, as Esime Jenaia, a CSA farmer tells us: ‘With the same field, I used to harvest one bag of maize, but now I harvest eight bags.’ Her children go to school with full bellies and, thanks to the income generated from selling the extra maize, all of the books and supplies they need. This is especially important for Esime who hopes her children will ‘realize the importance of getting an education’ and become independent. Taking on Climate Smart Agriculture has also boosted Esime’s independence, along with her self-respect and happiness. Having grown up in poverty, she is now a successful businesswoman in her community. She teaches the methods of her success to neighbors and people from surrounding villages, many of whom are women. This, in turn, has fostered a change in gender dynamics in her area.