400 Bags of Growers Mash for Poultry Farmers in Kisumu
Wednesday, 01 December 2021
BY: Emily Mikwa Yesterday, 100 Poultry farmers from Nyando, Kisumu East, Kisumu West and Kisumu Central sub counties, each received four bags of growers mash weighing 50Kg per bag as a boost in poultry production, courtesy of Food and Agriculture Organisation in consultation with the County Government. The farmers recently benefited from 10,000 day old
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Green Cities Initiative Multi – stakeholder Forum Convened in Kisumu
Friday, 29 October 2021
By: Emily Mikwa The Green Cities Initiative seeks to increase people’s well being through increased availability and access to products and services provided by Green Spaces including urban and peri- urban forestry, agriculture and sustainable food systems. Twelve Cities in Africa have been identified for pilot programme, with Kisumu, Mombasa and Nairobi Cities in Kenya
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Food Safety: Mitigating the Effects of Aflatoxins and Microbial Resistance in the Food Systems
Tuesday, 26 October 2021
The health risks posed by aflatoxins and microbial resistance in both human and animal health is far reaching, especially with regards to food handling processes right from production to the market. It is against this back drop that the County Government of Kisumu in partnership with FAO and USAID have organized a three day Trainer
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Kisumu Fisheries Sector Convenes a Result – Based Management and Reporting Workshop
Friday, 22 October 2021
The County Fisheries sector through the Aquaculture Business Development Programme (ABDP) organized a two day workshop between 21st and 22nd October, 2021 for the staff to sharpen their skills on the result based management and reporting (RBMR) at the Golf Hotel in Kakamega. The workshop that brought on board the sector staff from both the
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Capacity Strengthening Workshop on Financial Inclusion and Digital Literacy for Youths in Kisumu County
Friday, 01 October 2021
Thirty youth representatives from various groups across Kisumu sub counties attended a 5 day workshop on Financial Inclusion and Digital Literacy to enable them access affordable financial products from Equity Bank courtesy of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in collaboration with the County Government of Kisumu at the Acacia Premier Hotel. Equity Group Foundation, the
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6,000 More Day Old Chicks for Kisumu East and Central Small – Holder Farmers
Friday, 24 September 2021
60 Small- holder farmers from Kisumu East and Central Sub counties today received another batch of 6,000-day old chicks at the Kisumu Central Sub County offices. This is the second batch in addition to the previously distributed batch of 4,000 chicks totaling to the targeted 10,000 chicks to 100 farmers. The program under the Food
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Training On Rapid Urban Food System Assessment for Enumerators
Monday, 13 September 2021
By Jackton Omondi Kisumu county government in partnership with Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) held a three-day training session on food system assessment at Acacia Hotel in Kisumu between 8th to 10th September 2021. The assessment covered three aspects namely value chain analysis, geo spatial mapping and consumption patterns. The training was aimed at sensitizing
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Scaling Up Poultry Production in Kisumu through the Urban Food Systems Project
Friday, 03 September 2021
Today 40 farmers from Nyando and Kisumu West Sub counties each received 100 day old chicks as a seed capital into poultry business. The initiative supported by FAO in consultation with the County Government of Kisumu could have not come at a better time than this when the impact of Covid – 19 caused a
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Promoting poultry Keeping among Small holder Farmers in Kisumu County
Monday, 30 August 2021
The County government of Kisumu in collaboration with FAO- Kenya through the Urban Food Systems project organised a three day training as from 26th to 30th August, 2021, to 30 farmers of Kotieno group in Kobura Ward, Nyando Sub county. The aim of the training is to equip the farmers with technical skills in poultry
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