Description of Programme: FtMA is a consortium of six agri-focused organizations, with the mission of making markets work better for smallholder farmers. Through a demand-led approach, FtMA works with local agricultural ecosystem players to sustainably improve farmer livelihoods whilst fostering the commercial viability of value chain stakeholders. FtMA promotes the growth of viable smallholder business models through strategic and hands-on partnerships. In Kenya, FtMA is working across 13 Counties and PAFID is training smallholder farmers and private and public sector actors in both Climate-Smart Agriculture covering identified main value chains and agroforestry.

covering Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania and managed by the Conservation Farming Unit (CFU) Zambia. After successful implementation of the Conservation Agriculture Regional Programme (2010 – 2015), PAFID was again selected as the CFU’s in-country partner to implement RCSAP in Kenya. The aim of the programme is to deliver high calibre Climate Smart Agriculture Conservation Farming Minimum Tillage (CSA CF MT) training to smallholder farmers in drought-prone Counties of Eastern Kenya (Makueni, Kitui and Meru) and empower CSOs to advocate for and promote CSA CF MT causing increased on-farm food security, climate mitigation and economic resilience for vulnerable farming households and communities. The programme will engage with all private and public actors in the sector so that a unified CSA CF MT methodology and approach is delivered to smallholder farmers.

Value: € 2,850,000.00

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) with support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Royal Norwegian Government implemented a Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Programme across the East and Southern Africa Region (ESA). Conservation Agriculture was a major component of the programme.

PAFID as the Kenyan in-country partner of the Zambian Conservation Farming Unit was directly responsible for the successful implementation of the four year Conservation Agriculture Regional Programme across eleven Counties in Kenya ranging from areas of high to low agricultural potential (see where we work)

The strategic purpose of this programme was to cause 17,665 small and medium scale farmers to adopt more climate resilient, environmentally sustainable and productive Conservation Agriculture practices and to reduce the negative impacts on the environment caused by conventional tillage practises. By programme-end over 90,000 farmers had been trained in Conservation Agriculture out of whom nearly 25,000 adopted Conservation Agriculture on at least a portion of their land.

Value: € 317,000.00

This programme focused on Integrating Conservation Agriculture into the agriculture value chain by increasing the involvement of selected private sector suppliers and service providers in the adoption of Conservation Agriculture through existing commercial platforms.  PAFID trained small-holder farmers and cotton growers in the arid and semi-arid Counties of Eastern Kenya in Conservation Agriculture as well as private sector service suppliers to provide professional, timely and cost-efficient mechanised minimum tillage services and herbicide application services to farmers.

By strengthening the involvement and the capacity of the private sector in the delivery of yield enhancing products and services and knowledge about Conservation Agriculture, PAFID ensured the long term systemic adoption of Conservation Agriculture practices by farmers in these regions.

Value: € 843,000.00

PAFID was engaged as a strategic partner by CLUSA in this USAID funded programme located in five coastal Counties and Nairobi. The programme covered an initial two year period and was extended by a further two years. PAFID’s role in the partnership focused on empowering the youth in these Counties by training them, as well as public sector extension staff, in the technical aspects of Conservation Agriculture so that they could improve their socio-economic base by engaging in sustainable agriculture.