While agriculture is the economic activity that contributes the most to Kenya's GDP, a majority of Kenyans have yet to embrace mechanisation. There is also almost zero use of irrigation, with a ...

Kagwe said under the new framework, a wide range of Kenyan agricultural products — including fresh and frozen avocados, ...

Food security planning in Kenya has frequently been hampered by delays or inconsistencies in agricultural statistics, forcing ...

On the outskirts of the coastal Kenyan city of Mombasa, a women’s organization in Jomvu Creek aims to transform livelihoods and the environment through mud crab farming. A blue economy grant is ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A large mushroom farm near the Kenyan capital of Nairobi is one of a kind: It grows fungi on an industrial scale — not as food for restaurants but as a building material that ...

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. Around 65% of Africa’s farmland is degraded due to decades of mono-cropping and overgrazing Nairobi Declaration aims to ...

Simon Kitol’s 25-acre farm in western Kenya teems with maize, tomatoes, and beans, but also an invasive menace: Prosopis juliflora, better known as the mathenge plant. Its long roots steal water from ...

"Giving up is not an option - so many people depend on you," the words of Maryanne Gichanga, a participant in a UN supported initiative, which aims to help farmers in Kenya find solutions to alleviate ...

We need an urgent, clear-eyed debate on the structural reforms required to transform Kenyan agriculture from a ‘backbone’ of survival into a world-class, competitive sector. In early February, my firm ...

Dr. Robert Musyoki, Director of Seeds at the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) says the Kilimo Biashara Expo is a demand-driven initiative, born out of farmers’ requests ...