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Farm Africa’s DREEM project, delivered in partnership with WUSC and the Mastercard Foundation, empowered refugees and host communities in Kakuma and Kalobeyei, Kenya, by supporting 244 enterprises. Through training, mentorship and innovation grants, businesses grew resilient, created jobs and increased incomes. The programme shows how targeted support can transform livelihoods and foster economic independence in challenging contexts.

This report explores the benefits of agroforestry and precision farming to food security, livelihoods, climate resilience and environmental conservation. Agroforestry involves planting trees on farms. Precision farming involves using GPS data to determine the optimal amounts of seeds, fertiliser and pesticide to use in each location.
By combining the two, farmers in Kenya have achieved a 60% increase in yields, while conserving biodiversity and reducing their carbon footprint.

A collection of stories from June to August 2025 from the Youth in Sustainable Aquaculture, a partnership programme in Kenya with the Mastercard Foundation and consortium partners led by Farm Africa that aims to strengthen resilient livelihoods through innovative aquaculture practices, enabling work opportunities for young women and men.

With funding from AGRA, Farm Africa’s Sustainable agricultural value chain enterprises in central Kenya (SAVES) project is creating sustainable and inclusive agricultural systems that increase food security, incomes and climate resilience for smallholder farmers and broader rural communities in Meru, Kirinyaga and Laikipia counties.

Smallholder farmers across eastern Kenya are witnessing dramatic transformations in their yields, incomes and resilience to climate change, thanks to Farm Africa’s Strengthening Regenerative Agriculture in Kenya (STRAK) project. Funded by the IKEA Foundation through AGRA, the STRAK initiative is redefining sustainable farming in Embu and Tharaka Nithi counties. Over 50,000 farmers have been directly supported to adopt regenerative agricultural practices that restore soil health, conserve water and boost profits, all while safeguarding the environment.

This report charts the progress of more than 21,500 farmers in Embu and Tharaka Nithi counties in eastern Kenya who have planted trees and adopted climate-smart farming techniques.

Agricultural extension services to farmers are vital for enhancing productivity and production of agricultural produce in Kenya. However, the ratio of agricultural extension workers to farmers stands at 1:5,000 compared to the recommended ratio of 1:400. This paper outlines how Farm Africa and AGRA are helping to plug this gap in Embu and Tharaka Nithi counties by creating a network of Village-based Advisors (VBAs) made up of well-informed, passionate farmers who receive specialised training to provide technical extension services, inputs and market linkages to other services to other farmers.

This PDF is the response Farm Africa submitted in September 2022 to a public consultation on the draft Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) and Assessment Framework (AF) being developed by the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM)’s Expert Panel. The CCPs and AF will set new threshold standards for high-quality carbon credits, provide guidance on how to apply the CCPs, and define which carbon-crediting programmes and methodology types are CCP-eligible. The Core Carbon Principles and Assessment Framework will be issued in Q4 2022, following the public consultation, which launched in July 2022.

This three-page document summarises the results and learning from Farm Africa’s Growing Futures youth horticulture project in western Kenya from 2019 to 2021.