Food security Kenya

Meet Kenyan farmer rearing fish and black soldier fly using the smallest available space.

In Kenya, John Mwaura Kiriko, a businessperson from Kikuyu town about 20 kilometres from Nairobi city, is growing fish in a greenhouse and rearing black soldier fly larvae to feed his fish protein alternative. The technology occupies about 30 by 15 feets land for each greenhouse. Mwaura has built two greenhouses where he is rearing…

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In pursuit of the soybean promise

By Anthony Langat, Mumias Kenya, In 2010, when Kemba Wangoli lost his father, a clerical officer at Mumias Sugar Company, taking care of his siblings fell to him. All Wangoli had to pay their school fees was his family’s land to cultivate sugarcane. It didn’t take long for him to realize that the sugarcane industry…

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