Adoption of climate smart agricultural solutions. We are focused on ensuring new climate smart agricultural technologies have been tested, demonstrated and disseminated among farmers and entrepreneurs. We promote technology transfer, particularly in relation to climate-smart agriculture, to address the growing threat of climate change to agricultural productivity. Among other things, the Foundation promotes the adoption Continue Reading

Value chain Optimization We aim to have a strong agribusiness mindset/orientation among value chain actors in general and at production level in particular and synergies and linkages created between actors (producers, service/input providers, traders, retailers, consumers etc.) along selected value chains. Our objective is to ensure selected optimized value chains positively influence the income of Continue Reading

Skills Development Agenda Projects. Agriculture Apprenticeship ProjectLRC pioneered Agriculture Apprenticeship in Kenya in 2008. The project introduced a new approach in agriculture training where the apprentices split their days between 30% classroom instruction and 70% on-the-job training at a real farm. This training approach is very different from the way agriculture is currently taught in Continue Reading