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Increasing Smallholder Productivity and Profitability in Kenya - GCP/KEN/082/USA

Year of publication 2020

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Nearly 80 percent of Kenya’s land mass is made up of arid and semi-arid areas (ASALs). The ASALs have the highest poverty rate in the country, and many people in these areas suffer from malnutrition and food insecurity. Agricultural productivity in the ASALs is extremely low, owing to a lack of resources and opportunities for the smallholder farmers who live there. Leveraging the ASALs into productive, profitable agricultural areas would boost rural livelihoods, as well as food and nutrition security. The ASALs were targeted for development under Kenya’s Agricultural Sector Development Strategy (ASDS), and increasing food security was set as a primary goal of the Government’s Vision 2030 programme. The Increasing Smallholder Productivity and Profitability (ISPP) Project was designed to support both of these objectives by strengthening the capacities of local Government officers, smallholder farmers and caregivers through a variety of training activities and the creation of market linkages. Specifically targeting women and their important role in both agriculture and agribusiness, as well as nutrition and household food security, was an integral part of the project.

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