Improving the Productivity and Incomes of Smallholder Farmers in Western Kenya

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Funded By
Rockefeller Foundation
Impact Area
Western Kenya – Siaya, Vihiga and Bungoma
Dates
February 2004 – February 2007
Improving the productivity and incomes of smallholder farmers in western Kenya project was supported by Rockefeller Foundation and implemented by Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA) in partnership with Agricultural Market Development Trust (AGMARK) from February 2004 to February 2007 in Siaya, Vihiga and Bungoma in Western Kenya.
CNFA and AGMARK worked to improve the Agricultural inputs and information delivery system to increase availability, affordability and use of productivity enhancing farm inputs and services for smallholder farmers.
People in colorful attire exchange goods around tables filled with 'Chapa Meli Fertilizer' and seeds at an AGMARK gathering in rural Western Kenya, part of smallholder productivity work

Goal

To increase smallholder farmer's agricultural productivity and household incomes.

Objective(s)

  • Increase availability, affordability and use of productivity enhancing farm inputs and services for smallholder farmers in western Kenya.
  • Improving the delivery of inputs, and information about the inputs, to smallholder farmers.
  • Utilizing a "Financial Services Innovation Fund" to pilot experiments in expanding availability of credit both to the farmers and to the regional wholesalers and stockiest on whom they depend for supply of inputs.

Activities

  • Developed Agrodealer training modules in Business Management, product knowledge, safety and use.
  • Developed credit scheme for smallholder Rice farmers.
  • Developed credit guarantee facility for Agrodealers.
  • Developed farmers saving & lending community program purchase of inputs.
  • Developed Market-based Inputs subsidy voucher program for the Millennium Village Project (MVP).
  • Developed Agrodealer database and GIS Maps.
  • Trained Agrodealers on Business Management, product knowledge, safety and use.
  • Linked Agrodealers and smallholder farmers to agricultural input suppliers.
  • Conducted improved agricultural inputs' demand creation activities (Establish demonstration plots).

Key Achievements

252
Agrodealers Trained in business Management
622
Agrodealers trained on Agri-product Knowledge, Safety and use
83
Farmer Groups Developed
640
Demonstration Plots on improved seed and fertilizer established
95
Field days/Exhibitions Conducted
53,748
Smallholder farmers trained on Agricultural best practices
53
Agri input supply companies participating
2
Agrodealer Associations formed