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Promoting Farmer Innovation
approaches

Promoting Farmer Innovation [Kenya]

The PFI approach seeks to build on technical initiatives - innovation in the local context - developed by farmers themselves in dry/marginal areas where the conventional approach of transfer of technology from research to extension agents and then on to farmers has so often failed.

  • Compiler: William Critchley
Women Group Approach - Busia
approaches

Women Group Approach - Busia [Kenya]

group approach where women groups are visited by local specialists for on-farm demonstrations on use of double dug beds

  • Compiler: Unknown User
Cash for Work
approaches

Cash for Work [Kenya]

Giving cash incentives to farmers for them to undertake soil and water conservation

  • Compiler: Boniface, Mutegi Birichi
Catchment Approach
approaches

Catchment Approach [Kenya]

A focused approach to integrated land and water management, including soil and water conservation, where the active participation of the villagers - often organised through common interest groups - is central.

  • Compiler: Deborah Niggli
Utilisation of invasive species biomass for charcoal production
technologies

Utilisation of invasive species biomass for charcoal production [Kenya]

Charcoal production from invasive Prosopis juliflora has several objectives. It has been promoted to control the spread and reduce the abundance of invasive Juliflora while generating income opportunities for poor rural households producing and selling charcoal. Wood pyrolysis is an efficient, environmentally friendly charcoal production technology through indirect heating of …

  • Compiler: Beatrice Otieno
Cut-stump treatment
technologies

Cut-stump treatment [Kenya]

To manage single-stemmed invasive Prosopis juliflora trees, it's advised to use the cut-stump treatment. This involves cutting the tree at its base (≤ 15cm above the ground) and applying a suitable herbicide to the freshly cut stump, focusing on the root collar, stump sides, and outer cut surface.

  • Compiler: Beatrice Otieno
Water harvest
technologies

Water harvest [Kenya]

Water harvest for agricultural production in Asals

  • Compiler: Kithinji Mutunga
Pitting - Machakos experience
technologies

Pitting - Machakos experience [Kenya]

A system of interlocking crescent shaped trenches approximately 5-12 square metres, 0.5 m deep and 0.3 m high formed down slope using the xecavated spoil

  • Compiler: Paul Mutuku Kimeu