LIMAFRICA AND AGRISOLUTIONS

Elevate funding will ensure an increase in the number of smallholder farmers impacted by the organization's interventions through input provisions.impacting a smallholder farmer for their self employment, food sufficiency, income and nutritional improvement, through agricultural interventions in poultry, horticulture and staples, requires a minimum of $500 for input purchase and capacity buildings for the production uptake.

i am a 30year old agricultural degree graduate from the moi university with now 9 years on field experience on handling smallholder farmers and value chains. with desire to ensure food sufficiency and provide alternative means of self employment to reduce poverty amongst the most vulnerable in my community, i founded limafrica and agrisolutions as an organization to spearhead this noble dream. efforts to increase household reach for the smallholder farmers can be justified by this funding to ensure desirable inputs for production in 1500 smallholder farmers in poultry, 3150 farmers in staples (maize, sunflower and cereals) and 350 in export horticulture of high value crops of sweet passion fruits, hass avocado and pawpaws.

limafrica as an organization is centered on the smallholder farmers with interventions and innovations in horticulture, poultry and staples. from the current 5,162 farmers  as beneficiaries since 2017, the organization looks forward to reach a further 5,000 farmers in the next one year    upon funding.

This project seeks to address the inherent Poverty situation among smallholder farmers in kenya through the intervention of by alternative income to smallholder farmers. More than 70% the target groups are living on below a dollar a day. Kenya as a country is affected by this high poverty level, lowering its GDP. The Nyanza (homabay, Kisumu and siaya counties) are also adversely affected by high Prevalence rate of HIV/AIDS that still stands at 48%, more so among the energetic population of men, women and youth. High death rate of men caused by this menace and the higher poverty level in the target areas have left widows vulnerable to livelihood maintenance for their households. Living in dilapidated grass thatched, mud walled houses, these targeted groups are totally unemployed and have to do odd jobs as stone pelleting, motorcycling or charcoal burning that leads to deforestation thus environmental degradation. The youths’ unemployment has resulted to higher crime rates in the counties and also higher drug abuses. 

This project therefore seeks to mobilize, recruit, train and contract 5000 farmers for uptake of agriproduction. They shall then be capacitated to do the production of the value chains with input advancements and or linked markets.

the organization uses buy-back contract farming concept. this is an agreement of the organization with the smallholder farmers to undertake value chain production in either poultry, horticulture and staples which ultimately provides end market or market system development. this ensures income to the farmer, with agreed percentage remission to the markets leaving a portion for household consumption to improve nutrition and ensure food sufficiency. inclusion of tree seeds and seedlings dissemination in the inputs ensures environmental restoration.

continuous mobilization and recruitment of smallholder farmers,  including their capacity building such as in trainings and field days, ensure these interventions reach the targeted farmers as beneficiaries. these steps lead to contract based farming of buy-back of the advanced inputs to give the farmers income, ensure food sufficiency, improved nutrition and environmental sustainability.