Organic and soil fertility practices bring food and livelihood security to farmers in central Kenya
Description
In Kenya, communities in the Central Province and neighbouring counties suffer the impacts of land degradation due to increased population growth rates. The average land size is one acre while the average family size is about eight people.
As delegates gather at the Kintélé Conference Centre this week for the African Development Bank Group’s 2026 Annual Meetings, convened under the theme “Mobilising Africa’s Development Financing at Scale,” the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) is pressing a sharper question on the Bank: not how much finance is mobilised, but who it serves — and whether the assumptions behind it hold up at all.
A new Barefoot Guide from the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) documents a growing continental movement — from community markets and school gardens to national parliaments and global policy forums.
As delegates gather at the Kintélé Conference Centre this week for the African Development Bank Group’s 2026 Annual Meetings, convened under the theme “Mobilising Africa’s Development Financing at Scale,” the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) is pressing a sharper question on the Bank: not how much finance is mobilised, but who it serves — and whether the assumptions behind it hold up at all.
A new Barefoot Guide from the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) documents a growing continental movement — from community markets and school gardens to national parliaments and global policy forums.
