As society changes, valuable knowledge about using soil, water and seeds sustainably is increasingly being forgotten. Simultaneously, climate change is presenting farming communities with ever new challenges. Together with our project partner, the Institute for Culture and Ecology (ICE), we are therefore promoting traditional knowledge in central Kenya and combining it with new scientific findings to establish sustainable agriculture.
Biovision’s goals are to preserve nature and the local population’s traditional knowledge. In parallel, food security should become strengthened and the income of families increased.
This is why farmers are, for example, being trained in organic cultivation and in storing and marketing avocados, macadamia nuts, and honey. For doing so, we rely on a combination of traditional, longstanding practices and the newest insights from research, such as sustainable fertilizers or animal feed production.
It is fundamental to improve smallholder farmers’ abilities to adapt to climate change. To this end, we want to bring together all stakeholders in the agroecological value chain and connect them with experts from research and policy makers.
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Institute for Culture and Ecology ICE (Kenya)
This project is supported by SDC
The project, launched in 2012, is largely responsible for the establishment of agroecological practices in various agricultural sectors in the region. Biovision places special focus on the sustainable cultivation of macadamia nuts and avocados, which are steadily becoming a relevant economic sector in the region. It is also worth emphasizing how actively our project partner is creating headway for agroecological practices at the political level.
In moving forward, we want to connect farming families even more closely with consumers. The latter should be made more aware of agroecological and sustainable agriculture. To pursue this aim, we want to support the introduction of agroecological practices to at least 500 smallholder farming families in several districts in by 2025. They are also to be networked even more closely with relevant actors in the value chain and at the political level.
Watch this video to find out more about the aims and results of the study carried out in this project.
