Josephine Maina Blog

When Lucy Tatia whose crops failed due to lack of rain a year ago, she thought her life as a farmer had come to an end! Tatia spent decades cultivating her piece of land yielding poor yields. Until she joined many other women farmers like her at the Wezesha agri program and her l ...

Rural youths are the future of food security. Yet around the world, few young people see a future for themselves in agriculture in rural areas. Rural youths face many hurdles in trying to earn a livelihood. · Pressure on arable land is high in many parts of the world, making it d ...

Globally, climate change posses a significant risk threatening the lives and livelihoods of communities. The impacts of climate change are here and significantly increasing. Kajiado county is experiencing the worst drought reported by National Drought Management Authority(NDMA). ...

Reginald Omulo, a 66-year-old farmer, walks between rows of healthy maize and beans plants, stopping to admire and harvests a few of the beans he has planted 2 acre piece of land. Like many farmers in Uriri Sub-county, Migori County, Omulo, a former large scale Tobacco farmer but ...