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Youth set for a bright future with skills in milk and meat processing

Youth under R-YES project being implemented by Kilimo Trust Rwanda with funding from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) have expressed high hopes for a…

Income-generating skills benefit youth in Rwanda

Grace Nyiramboneyehose started a small poultry farming business with 50 chickens in 2018, but lost 20 of them because of lack of poultry farming skills.

IFAD V-P hails successful project business model

The Vice President of International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has commended Rwanda for setting up agriculture value chain structures that promote agribusiness models and create jobs.

Youth job creation model impresses IFAD delegation

Dominik Ziller, the Vice President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), has commended the idea of employing ‘plenty of youth’ with speech and hearing impairment, which is part of the youth employment creation…

Farmers in Kisumu County adopting new technologies

Rice farmers. Yobe Okello and Patrick are not wasting the crops’ by-products. Rather than throw away the rice by-products, the farmers have invented a new technology to reduce waste, recycle and reuse the rice wastes.…

Rice farming innovations create circular economy

Researchers say they are making rice farming in East Africa more sustainable by promoting the adoption of innovations such as recycled crop by-products, improving food security in the region.

R-YES project leverages on agribusiness for youth jobs

The Rural Youth Employment Support (R -YES) project has embarked on tackling youth unemployment in Rwanda through making agribusiness the gateway for youth jobs. According to the Labour Force Survey Annual Report 2020 by the National…

Rice waste converts into wealth creation venture

At Pap Onditi Shopping Center Nyakach, Kisumu County, 45-year-old Benta Akinyi is carrying a heap of load on her head that looks light in weight. It looks like unpacked grass for animal feeds but moving…

Alex Odundo turns scrap metal into farm machines

A security guard opens the heavy metal gate to allow in a three-wheeler (tuktuk) at the premises located a short distance from the Kisumu-Nairobi Road in Nyamware, Kisumu County. The three-wheeler is loaded with a…

Agri-tech helps improve smallholder livelihoods

A middle-aged woman who is an amaranth farmer from Ringa Kakelo in Homa Bay looks jovial as she harvests the crop’s grains at her four acres farm. She has all the reasons to smile because…

Smallholder farmers now adapt to climate change

Youth and women groups earn living from rice husks

When Bernard Omondi started rice farming, he thought straws will help him in mulching and improve soil fertility. He was wrong. https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/farmkenya/amp/crop/article/2001423474/rice-farmers-turn-husks-into-fortune

Youth set for a bright future with skills in milk and meat processing

Income-generating skills benefit youth in Rwanda

IFAD V-P hails successful project business model

Youth job creation model impresses IFAD delegation

Farmers in Kisumu County adopting new technologies

Rice farming innovations create circular economy

R-YES project leverages on agribusiness for youth jobs

Rice waste converts into wealth creation venture

Alex Odundo turns scrap metal into farm machines

Agri-tech helps improve smallholder livelihoods

Smallholder farmers now adapt to climate change

Youth and women groups earn living from rice husks

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