Smallholder farmers play a key role in addressing the challenges related to climate change, food security and poverty. Majority of smallholder farmers who constitute 65% of the Kenya’s labor force are unable to embrace the opportunities presented by the changing economic and demographic landscape triggered by global transition to low-carbon, climate-resilient and economic development trajectory.
With the advent of the novel Corona Virus and shrinking or unpredictable market prices for most agricultural produce, small-scale farmers had little or no option other than embrace the enterprises that promise an income stream with low risk, low capital input, ready market and friendly to the environment.
Tujiinue Tena project, dubbed “building back better” is an approach driven by multiple governmental and non-state actors to mobilize funding for post disaster recovery. The aim is to reduce vulnerability of communities to future disasters by building resilience to address social, economic and physiological catastrophes and shocks.
The Project, under the auspices of PACJA was mooted and piloted in semi-arid Northern Meru region with future plans of scaling it up to other parts of Kenya and Countries in Africa. In the recent past, the region in question has experienced erratic rainfall patterns occasioned by changing climatic conditions. Coupled with the adverse effects of Covid 19, the region’s economy has been completely destabilized.