The Kenya Agricultural Productivity and Sustainable Land Management Project (KAPSLMP) is a Kenya Government Project supported by the World Bank through a Global Environment Facility (GEF) grant and implemented in 9 Counties under Kikuyu - Kinale, Taita - Taveta and Cherangani hills catchments areas (127 Micro-catchments). It is responsive to the limited success in the country’s efforts to address land degradation. The project is promoting sustainable use of natural resources for higher productivity and increased incomes for small scale farmers. It is also focusing on the maintenance of critical ecosystem functions in degraded and fragile environments.
The development objective of KASLMP is to facilitate agricultural producers in the three catchments areas to adopt environmentally sound land management practices without reducing their incomes. Its global environment objective is to reduce and mitigate land degradation in the three catchments to contribute to maintenance of critical ecosystem functions and structures. The three catchments are important water towers but are facing challenges of high erosion and land degradation; factors that are closely linked to high poverty levels.
It is under this background that Africa Conservation Tillage Network (ACT) was engaged to facilitate and train services providers (TOT) on the Conservation agriculture for the three catchments. Based on the reconnaissance done before the trainings, CA has great potential in region as it can control erosion, enhance biodiversity regeneration, produce stable yields, and reduce labour requirements. It is can also increase farmers resilience to adapt and mitigate effects of climate change. The objective of the training was to enhance understanding of the principles of resource-saving and sustainable agricultural technologies as the new way to farm; to provide practical knowledge and skills in the application of sustainable agriculture practices for different socioeconomic and agro-ecological environments in Kenya’s water towers and enable Service Providers to respond competently to sustainability and productivity needs of farmers as well as strengthen the competency of the participants to facilitate learning of conservation farming technologies to potential support staff (extension) and farmers. The trainings were done in the three catchments areas separately as follows: Taita- Taveta Catchamnt (in Voi on 26-30th August, 2014); Cheranganyi Hills ( in Kitale on 2-5th September, 2014) and Kinale-Kikuyu catchment (in Naivasha, on 9-12th September, 2014).
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